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14 May 2012

Global Warming: a Marxist perspective

Chris Burrows Climate crisis

Just five years ago, not a day would go by without global warming making
the headlines. The American politician Al Gore’s documentary film about
climate change, An Inconvenient Truth, was seen by hundreds of
thousands in cinemas across the world. The Conservative Party rebranded
themselves as the champions of the environment, nailing their ecological
colours to the mast and urging people to ‘vote Blue to go Green’. Even
the arch-reactionary American president George W. Bush was forced to
concede that, maybe, the environment was worth thinking about.

12 May 2012

The crisis in Europe: a decisive turn in the situation

Alan Woods Europe

The
elections in France and Greece represent a fundamental change in the
situation. The crisis of European capitalism has entered a new and
turbulent stage. A mood of anger is sweeping across Europe. Of course,
we understand that election results do not reflect the psychology of the
masses with complete accuracy. They are like a snapshot of the mood at a
given moment. But it is necessary to analyse election results
carefully, since they do show certain trends in society.

12 May 2012

Greek elections (PART TWO): Communist Party leadership limited the impact of the party

Marxistiki Foni Editorial Board International

We continue our analysis of the Greek elections of last week with a look at the critical role of the leadership of the Greek CP.

12 May 2012

Election 2012: Why did Livingstone lose?

Walter Leon (London LP activist) Labour

A day after the electoral authorities had announced massive gains for
Labour up and down the country, activists in London were left
disappointed as the Tories kept control of City Hall. In an incredibly
close contest, incumbent Boris Johnson beat Labour veteran and former
mayor Ken Livingstone by 1,054,811 votes to 992,273, after
second-preferences were counted. This contrasted sharply with the other
results: Labour gained 823 council seats nationally, with the Tories and
their Liberal Democrat stooges losing 741 between them.

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10 May 2012

Barnsley: Public sector workers send a message!

Richard Vivian Industrial news

Public
sector workers in Barnsley today came out in protest against austerity
cuts and attacks on their pensions, some for the third time in the last
12 months

9 May 2012

Greek elections(PART ONE): If the Left were united they could have won

Marxistiki Foni Editorial Board International

We publish here the first of a two
part article written by the Editorial Board of Marxistiki Foni) The
results of Sunday’s parliamentary elections in Greece – a political
earthquake –are a clear indication of the growing radicalisation of
society on the basis of the historic deadlock of capitalism and the
movement towards an openly revolutionary situation.

9 May 2012

French elections: Sarkozy defeated but which way for Hollande?

Greg Oxley, PCF Paris 10, Editor of La Riposte International

The defeat of Nicolas Sarkozy in the
presidential elections opens a new phase of the class struggle in
France. The socialist candidate, François Hollande, won 51.62 % of the
vote. However, this overall score tends to conceal the social basis of
the election result. Practically all the major towns and cities voted
massively for Hollande – or, to be closer to the truth, to get rid of
Sarkozy.

9 May 2012

Local Elections: Voters Reject Coalition Cuts While Labour Triumph

Sam Ashton, Camberwell & Peckham CLP (Personal Capacity) Britain

Last week’s local elections saw a disastrous showing for the Coalition
government as the Conservative and the Liberal Democrats respectively
lost 403 and 329 council seats. At the same time the Labour Party saw a
huge net gain of 824 councillors meaning they were able to gain control
of 32 councils across the country.

4 May 2012

Election 2012: Coalition Parties hammered

Steve Jones Britain

This year’s local election results have delivered a huge no-confidence
vote to the Coalition parties. On Thursday night, the Tories were
accused of ‘ramping up’ election predictions for Labour in the hope that
they would not win that figure and the government could then claim that
things were not that bad after all. In fact, the Tory prediction was
wrong – Labour did far better!

4 May 2012

Election 2012: The situation in Coventry

Darrall Cozens, Coventry North West Labour Party, UCU and Coventry TUC. Britain

Three facts stand out from the 2012 local election results in Coventry:
the Labour Party made huge gains; the last remaining Socialist Party
councillor, Dave Nellist, lost his seat to Labour and the voting turnout
was very low at 26.43%.

30 April 2012

Rich list 2012: Money, Money, Money!

The Communist Britain

The publication of this year’s Sunday Times Rich List 2012
has revealed a trend which has been going on for many years now – the rich are
just getting richer.

27 April 2012

Summer School 2012

Militant Student/ ULU Marxists Youth

ULU Marxists, Socialist Appeal and www.marxist.com are proud to announce the 2nd Marxist Summer School: Prospects for the World Revolution,
this June 15-17. Join us for a packed weekend of discussion and debate
on what relevance the theory and programme of the Marxists has in this
epoch of world revolution.

Click here for more info

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