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Michael Foot and his legacy for Labour

The death of former Labour leader Michael Foot has brought him many
accolades from his friends in the labour movement, and also, with some
hypocrisy,  from some of his political enemies amongst the Tories.
Michael Foot was on the left of the Labour Party. Having come from a
Liberal family, he spent his whole political life in the Party and was
committed to causes such as the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament. Even
in his nineties, he was seen addressing anti-war demonstrations against
the war in Iraq – a war unfortunately pursued by a Labour Prime
Minister.

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Michael Foot and his legacy for Labour

The death of former Labour leader Michael Foot has brought him many
accolades from his friends in the labour movement, and also, with some
hypocrisy,  from some of his political enemies amongst the Tories.
Michael Foot was on the left of the Labour Party. Having come from a
Liberal family, he spent his whole political life in the Party and was
committed to causes such as the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament. Even
in his nineties, he was seen addressing anti-war demonstrations against
the war in Iraq – a war unfortunately pursued by a Labour Prime
Minister.

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Growing tensions and uneasiness in Germany

The crisis of capitalism is creating an unstable social and
political situation in Germany. Tensions are emerging within the
coalition government, elected only last year. Most interestingly, this
is having a radicalising effect inside DIE LINKE, which is being pulled
both left and right, with some of the leaders attracted by coalition
politics while the more radical ranks react against and seek an
alternative to the left.

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Snow joke under capitalism

Why does Britain grind to a halt as soon as we get a few snowflakes? Answer – capitalism.  Here are the facts. Road Salt, what the gritting lorries pump out to make our roads safe, is produced for the UK by two private mining companies, the Salt Union in Cheshire, and the Cleveland Potash company.

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Chimes At Midnight: Football in crisis

Last week, Portsmouth FC became the first
top-flight football club in England to go into voluntary administration as a
result of their massive debts, currently estimated at £86 million. Over the
season so far, they have repeatedly failed to pay wages on time, owe the Inland
Revenue millions in unpaid taxes and VAT, have had to sell many of their
players to get quick cash and – as a result – are lying firmly at the bottom of
the Premier league table.  According to
the Guardian (3/3/10) they need to find £14 million just to keep going until
the end of April.

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Birmingham – front line services under attack

As Birmingham reels after the
discovery of the tenth child – a two year old from Harborne – to die from
neglect in the city in under four years, the Tory/Liberal run City Council has
announced its main target for cutbacks – the council’s Children, Young People
and Families Service.  Birmingham, the
largest local authority in the UK, has a £26 million deficit and aims to slash
over 2,000 jobs from Social Services: 1300 jobs from the Children, Young People
and Families Service and 305 jobs from Adult and Community Services.

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Private Company Spies on Workers

Six traffic wardens working for the private company running Islington
Council’s parking enforcement service have been summarily dismissed
after being found sheltering from a heavy downpour in a cafe.The company had traced their whereabouts via the workers’ hand-held
electronic devices, which allow the employers to track workers’
movements every minute of the working day.

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One hand tied behind their back

Ireland: While
many active trade unionists across the country will be pleased to hear
that IMPACT and SIPTU among others are planning to escalate the wave of
partial actions across the public sector, and that they will be pushing
for escalation at the ICTU meeting on March 8th; at the same
time they will be acutely aware of the need to demonstrate to their
members that the action is having an affect on the government.

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PCS Strike Ballot: The phoney war is over

PCS have just announced a YES vote for industrial action over the proposed changes to the Civil Service Compensation Scheme. The date of March 8th and 9th has been pencilled in for action by over 270,000 civil servants.What’s this all about? We explain the issues and what needs to be done.

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Socialism and the long struggle for Irish freedom

We are publishing here a speech given by Phil Mitchinson at
the 2005 International Marxist school in Barcelona. Dealing with the
history of the centuries old struggle for freedom in Ireland, and the
part played in that history by republicanism and socialism, as well as
the political developments that have led to the current impasse. Phil,
who died tragically in 2006 at the age of 38 would have celebrated his
42nd Birthday on 25th February.

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