Solidarity 3/118 is out
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Download the whole paper as pdf here (see "attachment", below) or read the articles online.
Solidarity 3/118, 27 September 2007
Tom Mann 3 —1889: The Great Trade Union Turning Point
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Continuing a series on the life and times of Tom Mann with an account of the London dock strike of 1889.
The History of the International Socialists: The British Left and the Irish Crisis 1968-70 Part 1
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Part 1: How and Why the Six-County State Broke Down
Recently the British army in Northern Ireland was withdrawn to where it was in relation to Northern Ireland society before 14 August 1969, when it was put on the streets to be an emergency scaffolding for a state and society that had begun to break down into Protestant/ Catholic civil war.
Why did union leaders vote to end Labour democracy? An open letter to Tony Woodley
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Dear Tony Woodley,
We hear that at a fringe meeting at Labour Party conference in Bournemouth (23-27 September), you invited a mild critic of your knee-bending before Gordon Brown to “come outside and say that!”
Inside the Crisis of Respect
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Andy Newman is a former Socialist Alliance activist who has followed developments in Respect closely. Martin Thomas interviewed him.
We did the only thing we could
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Steve Cohen continues a series about important socialist novels, looking at Ring Lardner Jr and the background to his novel the Ecstasy of Edwin Muir
More Strikes at Freemantle Trust Care Homes
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200 careworkers at the Fremantle Trust, which holds the contracts for care homes in Barnet, North London, took their fourth day of strike action on Thursday 20 September as part of an ongoing fight against drastic cuts in their pay and conditions.
DWP Pay Dispute
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Following their rejection of a three year pay offer that will see 27% of staff in the Department of Work and Pensions staff get consolidated rises of 2% in year 1, 40% get 0% in year 2 and 49% get 1%
Defend Karen Reissmann
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Manchester mental health workers have held a second three day strike to protest against the victimisation of their UNISON steward, Karen Reissmann.
3 November NHS Demo
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The long awaited national demonstration in defence of the NHS will take place on 3 November.