Solidarity 3/178 to download
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Out of work? Stuck on benefits? Not any more, thanks to Channel 4’s Fairy Job Mother.
Solidarity 3/178, 29 July 2010
Unemployment: no fairy tale endings
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Christoper Hitchens: never one of us
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Any number of questions popped into my mind whilst reading Hitch-22 – Christopher Hitchens’ recently published memoir – but two in particular kept coming back. The first: was Hitchens really ever “one of us”? The second: would it be easier to convince a Hitchens admirer or one of his mortally hostile “left wing” critics of my politics?
Labour leadership contest: why we shouldn't support Diane Abbott
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The AWL’s national committee thought we should argue for a critical vote for Diane Abbott in the Labour leadership contest. But not everyone agrees.
Private public service providers: making a killing
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This government, made up of parties with an historical, ideological commitment to the rule of markets has come to power against the backdrop of an economic crisis. They will make cuts and it is inevitable that they will try to expand public sector privatisation and outsourcing under the cover of this crisis.
Black people in the US: inequality rising, workers' solidarity needed
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Dan Katz looks at the impact of the economic crisis on black people in the USA and the political response of the Obama administration.
Germany: "A perfect time for a working-class offensive"
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Wladek Flakin, of the German section of the Revolutionary Internationalist Organisation, discusses opportunities and obstacles facing the German working class with Daniel Randall of Workers’ Liberty.
Unite General Secretary election: we need a union fit for purpose
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Branches and workplace reps’ committees of the union Unite are holding meetings to decide whom to nominate to take over as Unite General Secretary.
Labour leadership election: vote Miliband for torture!
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Your grandfather fought in the Red Army in the years immediately following the October Revolution. Your father was a Marxist academic renowned for his critique of the Labour Party as a party obsessed with parliamentary politics which always prostrated itself before the capitalist status quo when in power. So what do you do to maintain the family tradition?
Labour Executive moves to limit review of party structures
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The Labour Party’s National Executive has moved to limit the review of Labour Party structures which is promised to start from October 2010 to a mere consultation on details of the existing ultra-undemocratic structures, pushed onto the party by Tony Blair after his election victory in 1997.