I have been on many picket lines in my time but until today they have all taken place in the real world. Today saw the first ever strike and picket to take place in virtual reality. Second Life allows you to create a virtual person (or avatar) and go around doing the sorts of things you supposedly...
I have two accounts with Northern Rock, which together contain most of my savings, so I have been spending much of the last few days thinking about what to do and consulting advisors, Marxist and non-Marxist, about it.
Until yesterday (Monday 18th) I had decided to sit tight in the belief that...
Last night my father told me a story I had never heard before which I would certainly like to know more about. He was talking about his brother-in-law, who at the start of WW2 was in the fire service but was then called up and put as a Lieutenant in an unit designated as part of the Royal Engineers...
A review of 'Circular Breathing: The cultural politics of Jazz in Britain' by George McKay. Duke University Press.
As it has spread from its American roots, jazz has been assimilated by many national cultures round the world. 'Circular Breathing' deals with two aspects of the way this happened in...
Lest anyone think that repeated invites to Marxism for anti-semitic saxophone-playing conspiracy theorist Gilad Atzmon was an aberration on the part of the SWP, National Secretary Martin Smith is appearing with him again tonight in Manchester.
Under the title 'Five for Trane' (designed to appeal to...
Over 100 people attended the rally to launch John McDonnell's leadership campaign in Manchester last Thursday. The platform included Tony Benn, Alice Mahon and Jeremy Dear, General Secretary of the NUJ.
John McDonnell was eager to dissociate himself from the Blair-Brown punch-up going on...
A couple of days ago I read a heart-warming story about how the Mayor of Caracas was going to expropriate several golf courses overlooking the poorer parts of the city and use the land to build decent housing for slum dwellers.
This is not merely elementary social justice. Golf must be the most...
Stop this destructive war! Workers on all sides are paying the price!
A statement by the Workers Advice Center in Israel in relation to Israel's attack on Lebanon.
Since July 12, Israel has been carrying out a disproportionate and murderous war in Lebanon . It has killed hundreds of innocent...
'Today' today had a feature on the 70th anniversary of the Spanish Civil War featuring historian Anthony Beevor and none other than Michael Portillo, who was there so that he could patronise his father who fought on the Republican side as a naïve intellectual. Their conclusion was that the best way...
ICFTU ONLINE...
Iraqi trade union leader kidnapped, tortured and murdered 30/5/2006
Brussels, 30 March 2006 (ICFTU OnLine): In the latest brutal attack against the Iraqi trade union movement, the General Federation of Iraqi Workers (GFIW) has reported the kidnapping and murder of Thabet Hussein Ali...
This item first appeared in
Jewish Socialist.
“Children from a secular Jewish Sunday school in Massachusetts have taken to the streets in defence of workers' rights. The manager of Wal-Mart's in Framingham, Massachusetts called police to deal with a protest by the children whose spokesperson...
While Ahmedinejad celebrates Iran taking a step towards nuclear weapons and the Pentagon contemplates whether it should use its own nukes to prevent it, the press has paid little attention to social struggles in Iran. Despite the repression of the Teheran busworkers' strike in January and a legal...
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