New Ted Grant book Now In Stock
We are pleased to inform our readers that "Ted Grant: Writings Volume One 1938-1942" is now in stock and orders are being accepted.
July 2010
The latest provocation of Colombia against Venezuela – support the Venezuelan revolution!
On Thursday, July 22, Venezuelan
president Chávez decided to put the
border with Colombia on maximum military alert, after Colombian
president Alvaro Uribe made accusations that Venezuela was harbouring
FARC guerrillas and demanded an “international commission of enquiry”.
Fianna Fáil looters to raid the family silver
IRELAND: There’s
been a steady procession of attacks on the public sector over the last
couple of years. Wage cuts, levies and a deluge of propaganda. We’ve
made the point elsewhere that the FF and the Greens are in a cul de
sac, they are most likely going to be slaughtered in the next general
election. So by all accounts they have nothing to lose. They have
launched a one sided civil war against the working class at the behest
of the bourgeois, the home grown variety of course, but also the multi
nationals based in London and New York.
Gormley plans to break the union link: what are the bourgeois scared of?
IRELAND: A
ban on trade union donations to the Labour Party will not benefit
anyone other than the enemies of the working class and the organised
working class in particular.
Civil service workers; Redundancy Payments Under Attack (again!)
Once again, though, the new Tory/ Lib Dem government has
turned its eyes towards the redundancy payments of civil servants. The
Tories reckon on saving more than the £500 million envisaged last year by the Hoonites when the time comes to destroy over half a million jobs across the
public sector, a good portion of which is to come from the civil
service.
Marxism and the state
Standing between the working class and the socialist transformation of society is a colossal state machine. In order to carry out this transformation, we must have a clear understanding of what the state is, and what must replace it.
Marxism and the state
Standing between the working class and the socialist transformation of society is a colossal state machine. In order to carry out this transformation, we must have a clear understanding of what the state is, and what must replace it.
“Big Society?” Big Profits more like it!
When David Cameron announced "The Big Society" (a name nicked from the
American President LBJ who used it in the ’60s) during the election,
most people laughed and assumed that would be the last we would hear of
it. Tory spokespeople said that they had no idea what it meant and one
Tory MP described it as "Bollocks." Indeed. However, now safely inside
Number 10, Cameron has brought up it up again.
Deepwater Horizon – a unionised workforce would stop these environmental disasters
Much is said in the news about the disastrous situation that now
exists in the Gulf of Mexico as a result of the Deepwater Horizon
explosion. An ecological disaster of gigantic proportions has been
created by the profit motive, which is what drives the BP executives.
However, were the company to be thoroughly unionised, with workers’
representatives controlling every level of safety, this disaster could
have been averted.
Ted Grant (1913 – 2006)
Today, July 20th, is the fourth anniversary of the death of Ted Grant, Marxist, Revolutionary, defender of the banner of Trotskyism. In the next few days we will be publishing the first volume of the collected writings of Ted Grant cover the period from 1938 to 1942.
Southwark Unison say no to cuts
The following motion was passed by Southwark unison at a special members
meeting to discuss how to fight the cuts in local government. We are
publishing it here as it represents a good template that can be used by
trade unionists elsewhere in drafting similiar resolutions.
Italy: Pomigliano FIAT workers will not surrender! Pomigliano resists!
The FIAT plant at Pomigliano d’Arco
(Naples) has become the centre of attention for all militant trade
unionists in Italy. The bosses are trying to implement new draconian
work conditions and in the process have used all kinds of bullying
methods. But they can push too far and the workers are reaching the
limit and preparing to fight back.
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