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Help in the fight for socialism this winter! Donate to the festive fighting fund appeal!

It’s been a revolutionary year internationally and a successful year for the Marxists in Britain. However, in order to continue in the fight for a socialist programme, we are appealing to all our readers this winter to help raise £6,000 for our fighting fund and help us build the forces of Marxism here in Britain and internationally. Every contribution – small and large – helps, so please consider contributing what you can at this festive time of year.

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Thousands demonstrate for “Cops off Campus”: time to build for mass student-worker action; time to fight for socialist policies!

The streets of London were filled yesterday – Wednesday 11th December – with thousands of students angry against the presence of police on university campuses and the increasingly violent use of force by the police against student protests. The stage is now set to build for mass national action between students and university workers next year.

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Defend the “Sussex Five” – students and workers: unite and fight!

We publish here a statement by the Sussex Marxist Society on recent events at Sussex University, where five students have been suspended following their participation in an occupation and picket line activity at the strike of university staff on 3rd December. The task now in Sussex, as elsewhere, is to built a united mass movement of students and workers.

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Mandela memorial: Booing crowd embarrasses Zuma, frightens the bourgeoisie

The Nelson Mandela national memorial day turned out horribly wrong for the bourgeoisie, the ANC, and President Jacob Zuma as the masses completely upset the applecart and took center-stage.  The result was a massive embarrassment for the “respectable people” who had come from all over the world, and especially for President Zuma, who was booed amidst an outpouring of raw emotion by the defiant proletarian crowd.

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Anti-capitalist offensive delivers Bolivarian victory in Venezuelan municipal elections

The December 8th municipal elections in Venezuela gave yet another victory to the Bolivarian revolution, with the Socialist United Party (PSUV) and its allies receiving 5.1 million votes (49.24% of the total) and 4.4 million (42.72%) going to the opposition. The opposition had presented these elections as a plebiscite on Maduro’s presidency; the result, however, will serve to vindicate the decision taken by Maduro’s to fight against the economic sabotage led by the capitalists.

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No to police brutality! For a mass movement of student and workers!

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The question of police brutality against students and the presence of police on university campuses has been raised due to recent events surrounding the University of London. It is the task of revolutionaries and activists to put forward a socialist programme in order to build a mass movement of students and workers against police repression and the Coalition’s austerity programme.

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Nelson Mandela dies: for genuine liberation, fight capitalism!

Nelson Mandela is no more. At about 20:50 on Thursday 5th December, Nelson Rohishlahla Mandela passed away peacefully at the age of 95 after a long illness. The news was announced by President Jacob Zuma to a worldwide audience. All across the country people gathered to pay tribute to a freedom fighter. Ben Morken in South Africa looks back at the life of this important political and historic figure.

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