As we were saying: “Bloody Sunday”
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On 30 January 1972, British Army soldiers in Derry, Northern Ireland fired on Catholics demonstrating for civil rights.
As we were saying
Why did the Berlin Wall fall?
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The Berlin Wall, erected fifty years ago by the East German state, was a symbol of the totalitarian Stalinist systems. The wall was a monstrosity and we are glad it was torn down by Berliners at the end of 1989.
Tories Let Murdoch Take BSkyB: Murdoch, Maxwell, Black and the Poisoned Press
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The poisoning of public information by billionaire owners has been ratcheted up another step by the government's decision on 4 March to let Rupert Murdoch take control of BSkyB.
Gaddafi, Ken Livingstone, and the left
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In the 1980s, fervent - and paid - supporters of Gaddafi were accepted by many as a respectable section of the British left! This article from Socialist Organiser 343, 28 January 1988, tells about it, and the lessons we must learn.
Workers' Liberty No.8 - Le Pen, South Korea, Australian Labor Party, National Union of Railwaymen (NUR), 1987 TUC conference
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A collection of articles from Workers' Liberty No.8.
* Conservative Party invitation to French Fascist and leader of the French National Front, Jean-Marie Le Pen.
* 1987 TUC conference and the Union leaderships' response to declining union membership.
* An analysis of the Australian Labor Party's 1987 Australian general election victory.
* Child sex abuse, incest and UK law.
* The rise of working-class struggle in South Korea
* General Secretary Jimmy Knapp's sell-out of the members of the National Union of Railwaymen (NUR)
ERNEST MANDEL AND POST-TROTSKY TROTSKYISM
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An assessment of the leading thinker of post-Trotsky "orthodox Trotskyism", the "Fourth International".
As we were saying: the Muslim Association of Britain's first public appearance, April 2002
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Solidarity with the Palestinians — but don't line up behind Hamas!
ON 13 APRIL [2002] there was a big London march "for Palestine". What happened was shocking from a socialist standpoint, and harmful to the Palestinian cause.
As we were saying — 1968: When London dockers struck work and marched for Tory racist Enoch Powell
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The recent construction workers’ strikes began under the slogan “British Jobs For British Workers”.
As we were saying, 2004: Respect woos the 'Muslim vote'
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Originally posted 22 May 2004.
The campaign for the 10 June 2004 Euro and local elections by the Respect coalition, set up by the Socialist Workers' Party (SWP) in January, is descending into a shameful scramble to grab the 'Muslim vote'.
As we were saying: The sword of Islam
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This review by Paddy Dollard of a TV programme — The Sword of Islam — on the rise of political Islam was first printed in Socialist Organiser (a forerunner of Solidarity) in April 1987.