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Vulture funds: claws off Argentina

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Date: 
26 February, 2013 - 17:00 - 19:00
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Meet outside Elliott Advisors (UK) Ltd, Cleveland House, 4th Floor, 33 King Street, London, SW1Y 6RJ

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A demonstration against vulture fund attempts to loot Argentina’s economy in next week’s ‘sovereign debt trial of the century.’ The outcome of the test case could have HUGE implications for the global economy and for Greece, Spain and others.

Meet outside Elliott Advisors (UK) Ltd, Cleveland House, 4th Floor, 33 King Street, London, SW1Y 6RJ and bring pots, pans and vulture costumes!

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Details on Jubilee Debt Campaign website

The left and the Falklands crisis

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Sean Matgamna

This article was written for internal discussion in the Workers' Socialist League in May 1982. It came between a meeting of the (smaller) WSL Executive Committee on Sunday 9 May 1982, which voted by a majority to change the previous WSL policy of opposing the war on both British and Argentine sides, to siding with Argentina; and a meeting of the (larger) WSL National Committee on Sunday 16 May 1982, which voted by a majority to keep the previous policy.

The texts and the method

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Sean Matgamna

From Workers’ Socialist Review no.2, 1982; reprinted in Workers' Liberty 2/3

Time and again the same quotations from Trotsky have been used to justify a pro-Argentine stance in the Falklands/Malvinas war But the main thing the quotations prove is the pro-Argentine comrades’ lack of grip on the points in dispute.

Worker run hotel under threat

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By Jack Staunton

The Hotel BAUEN in Buenos Aires, Argentina, occupied by its workers since early 2003, is under threat of eviction by the local government in an effort to return the hotel to its original owners. They charge that since the workers’ seizure of control over the hotel was illegal, it must now be returned. Dozens of other worker-managed workplaces and co-operatives in Argentina fear similar attacks, as BAUEN is a key symbol for the labour movement.