Solidarity 3/182
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Tubeworker is a rank-and-file bulletin produced by worker-activists on London Underground.
Solidarity 3/182, 7 October 2010
Why Tubeworker matters
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Ireland: blank cheque for bankers, slash and burn for workers
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Rob Hartnett from the Unite union in Ireland spoke to Solidarity:
What Stalinism Did to Socialism - Socialism in Disarray 2.
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1. Stalinism was utopianism
We have seen that Stalinism was a form of “utopian socialism” — totalitarian utopian socialism — on a vast scale. The name which its advocates gave to that utopianism was “Socialism in One Country”.
Challenge BNP stalls!
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The BNP’s internal difficulties continue; they are in debt and have expelled their London Assembly member Richard Barnbrook. However, their “tabletop” campaign is giving them new life at the grassroots.
RTW, COR, NSSN: fight for anti-cuts unity!
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The “Coalition of Resistance” (initiated by Counterfire, a group of people who recently left the SWP) has called an anti-cuts conference on 27 November.
Hillbilly noir
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Winter’s Bone is a thriller: a detective story in which a girl must find her drug-dealer father to prevent the repossession of her family home to pay his bond.
Bangladeshi garment workers rise
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Following a wave of textile strikes in Bangladesh, a reviving workers’ movement is facing savage repression in Bangladesh.
Latin American left: spotlight on Ecuador and Brazil
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Following the attempted coup by a section of the police against the government of Rafael Correa in Ecuador, the Mexican section of the United Secretariat of the Fourth International (the Workers Revolutionary Party — PRT in Spanish) issued a statement of opposition through the FI’s International Viewpoint.
Election setback for Chávez
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The Bonapartist regime of Hugo Chávez suffered a setback in the Venezuelan elections on 26 September, winning a majority of parliamentary seats but not the two-thirds majority it wanted in order to make further constitutional changes.