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Miners Strike

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Socialist Appeal industrial Correspondent
01 December 2009

Up to a thousand EPMU Solid Energy miners are entering their third week of industrial action as the stand-off over negotiations over multi-employer collective agreement.

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Dairy Workers Union Win Union Recognition

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Socialist Appeal Industrial Correspondent
01 December 2009

The month-long lockout of workers at Talleys-owned Open Country Cheese is over after workers have secured their goal of a collective employment agreement to cover their jobs. 

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Pakistan Steel – Once Again Workers Make A Stand

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Pakistan Trade Union Defence Committee Karachi
01 December 2009

Pakistan Steel is the biggest industrial steel company in Pakistan which plays a vital role in the country’s economy. The rulers are trying to hijack this worker’s institution but workers are fighting back in a militant way.

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The Fall of the Berlin Wall: 20 Years Later

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Alan Woods
01 December 2009

Twenty years ago as the Berlin Wall came tumbling down the bourgeoisie in the west was euphoric, rejoicing at the “fall of communism”. Twenty years later things look very different as capitalism has entered its most severe crisis since 1929. Now a majority in former East Germany votes for the left and harks back to what was positive about the planned economy. After rejecting Stalinism, they have now had a taste of capitalism, and the conclusion drawn is that socialism is better than capitalism.



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Austerity Britain

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Rob Sewell
01 December 2009

Internationally, capitalism is emerging from its worst crisis since the 1930s. There is palpable relief in the ranks of the ruling class at avoiding a financial meltdown. However, despite heated talk of green shoots, there is a universal gloom about the current situation.

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Socialist Appeal Magazine - Issue #2- Out Now !

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Editorial Board
21 November 2009
Order your copy of Socialist Appeal now.  Issue #2 is available over the summer months.
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Pakistan: Unemployed Youth Camps across country

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Zohaib Butt
06 November 2009

The Unemployed Youth Movement (BNT) in Pakistan held a nationwide campaign of recruitment camps for unemployed youth. Huge numbers participated.

 

 

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The Obama Administration : Transparent as a Brick

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Karl Belin
06 November 2009

When Barack Obama was still a candidate in the Democratic primaries, he promised a new era if he were elected. Among his promises for “change,” he said his future administration would be one of the most transparent in history: “an unprecedented level of openness in government".


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Green Shoots of Economic Recovery?

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Mick Brooks
06 November 2009

Some economic commentators and financial journalists have divined the ‘green shoots’ of economic recovery’ growing out of the present crisis. Perhaps the wish is father to the thought. Are they right?

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UNITE Files for Referendum on Minimum Wage

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Graham Day
06 November 2009


Proposed Referendum Wording

"Should the minimum wage be raised to $25 a hour and then in steps over the next three years until it reaches two-thirds of the average ordinary time hourly rate as recommended by the 1973 Royal Commission into Social Security"?

 

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Ideologies of Abstinence

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Mauro Vanetti
06 November 2009

With the National Government debating the merits of the “Emission Trading Scheme”, we reproduce an extract by Mauro Vanetti's in which petit-bourgeois environmentalism is exposed as an non-viable response to global warming - green "ideologies of abstinence" simply play in to the hands of the ruling class. What is required is a genuine Marxist programme on this issue, which is outlined at the end of the article.

 

(This article can be read in full on http://www.marxist.com/global-warming-deniers-and-climate-change-ideologues-part-five.htm in reply to climate change denier Brian J Baker)

 

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From Social Security to Charity

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Miles Lacey
06 November 2009

On July 20th, 2009, the Business Roundtable put forward its ideas about social security.

Their programme was radical to say the least. In a nutshell, their proposal is to delegate the provision of welfare to organisations such as churches, iwi and other non-government organisations.

 

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