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April 2010

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South Africa: The Demise of Eugene Terre Blanche – a Class Analysis

The recent death of Eugene Terre
Blanche, leader of the AWB (Afrikaner Resistance Movement), at the
hands of two farm workers, has highlighted the situation that exists
today in South Africa, on the one hand the many unresolved problems of
the huge majority of black workers and poor, and on the other a
minority within the white population who cannot reconcile themselves to
the end of Apartheid, upon which their privileges depended.

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Severfield Reeve – Update

Socialist Appeal has received this
update on the position at Severfield Reeve which we reported on a few
weeks ago. It’s clear that there is a militant mood
developing in the
factory

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Dire warning: New Age of Austerity planned

Tomorrow, Sat April 10th, thousands of trade unionists and Labour
movement activists will unite to march through London in a demonstration
algainst cuts in public services, called by over 20
organisations including a number of trade unions. The March will assemble
at Midday outside Embankment tube and will end up in Trafalgar Sq. for a
rally. Here is what Socialist Appeal has to say about the issues raised by the
march in a leaflet being handed out on the day:

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Savage sentences against Gaza protestors must stop

The massive over-reaction of the police and the courts against arrested Gaza demonstrators has come as a shock. Usually people convicted of minor public order offences get
a suspended sentence or community service.This time the judge has been
handing
down savage sentences of up to two and a half years at Isleworth Crown
Court.

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Irish Marxists launch new paper

We are delighted to announce the
publication of Fightback: the magazine of the International Marxist
Tendency in Ireland. The first edition of the magazine comes in two
editions for the North and the South – they have different front and
back pages and industrial material. The first edition is full colour and has
20 pages.

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Revolution in Kyrgysztan

The government of Kyrgyzstan has
fallen! According to reports this morning President Kurmanbek Bakiyev,
who opened fire on his own people, has fled. The government has been
dissolved and opposition forces have begun to assume power. Yesterday
www.marxist.com
received a report from a comrade in Russia, which gives a graphic
account of these events.

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General Election 2010: Don’t let the Tories in.

The general election of 2010 has been called. To no-one’s surprise, on Thursday 6th May, voters will go to the polls to decide who will form the next UK government.  For a very long time now, the Tories – the party of big business – have enjoyed a sizeable poll lead, backed up by good results in local and Euro elections. Yet the gap between the Tories and Labour has closed sharply in recent months. Why is this?

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Mobilising against the EDL in Dudley. What lessons can we learn?

The centre of Dudley in the Midlands became
a ghost town on Saturday 3rd April with shops on the
High Street
boarded up, resembling the effects the recession had last year on many
towns .
But this deserted town centre was not the result of an economic
downturn, well
not exactly. It was the overreaction of the Midlands police in occupying
the
town with road blocks in an attempt to prevent trade unionists and
socialists demonstrating
against the venomous EDL who were trying to sow divisions amongst the
workers
of Dudley.

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