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International Brigade Plaque Unveiling 16 July. Blaenavon.

14-07-2006 14:39

There will be singing, speeches, performance, (and an IWW stall).

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New pamphlet: "War and Revolution: the Hungarian Anarchist Movement"

14-07-2006 08:32

The latest KSL pamphlet gives you a chance to learn about Hungarian anarchists in the Budapest Commune of 1919, and the stories of figures like Ervin Szabo (anarchist librarian and anti-war conspirator), Otto Korvin (agitator) and Ilona Duczynska (the assassin who didn't).

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Hospital Staff Protest In Southport and Ormskirk

13-07-2006 19:35

Health workers will demonstrate outside Southport and Ormskirk hospitals in response to its latest round of job cuts. Amicus and other unions will mount two protests next week after the NHS trust revealed it will sack more than eighty staff in coming months.

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Fight for British Jobs: Nationwide Protest This Saturday!

13-07-2006 17:11

Car maker PEUGEOT have sacked 2000 workers, and are planning on uprooting their production plant to Eastern Europe, so that they can pay workers far less money and make them work in appalling health and safety conditions.

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Ambulance Staff Strike Back

13-07-2006 17:08

Ambulance workers across Merseyside and Cheshire have gone on strike in a dispute over pay. Technicians, who assist paramedics in ambulances, began a 24-hour walkout on Thursday after the collapse of pay talks on Wednesday night.

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The SSP crisis: personality cult or class-struggle party?

12-07-2006 14:56

The Alliance for Workers’ Liberty spoke to Andy McPake, an activist in the Scottish Socialist Youth and a supporter of the SSP-United Left about the current crisis in the Scottish Socialist Party. This is an unedited version of the interview. An edited version will appear in Solidarity, the fortnightly paper of the Alliance for Workers’ Liberty and will be online soon.

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Strike at the BBC?

11-07-2006 16:46

It was revealed last week that director-general Mark Thompson saw his pay packet rise by £160,000, from £459,000 to £619,000. Adding insult to injury is the executive board's greed in swallowing inflated pay rises of between 10 and 30 per cent. BECTU members will vote for industrial action."

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No Pasaran! - Commemorating the Spanish Revolution

11-07-2006 14:53

Liverpool Social Forum presents a night of film and talk commemorating the Spanish Revolution and its heroic struggle for equality and freedom, against fascism and militarism.

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Venezuela - Making Another World Possible

11-07-2006 13:36

On Monday 17th July, Sheffield Venezuela Information Centre will be holding a public screening of the documentary ' The Revolution will not be Televised' followed by a discussion on building solidarity.

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Mersey Ambulance Strike More Likely

11-07-2006 12:30

An ambulance strike on Merseyside looks more likely this afternoon, after there no deal was agreed in pay talks yesterday. Ambulance Service Union leaders last night agreed to meet their employers one last time within the next 48 hours, after they submitted a list of demands through negotiators Acas.

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BBC2 DOCUMENTARY ABOUT 'LEFTIES'.

10-07-2006 20:32

A 3 part documentary began on BBC2 at 7 pm tonight with the second and third ones on Monday 17 and 24 th July.

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PUBLIC MEETING ON CUBA/LATIN AMERICAN REVOLUTION

10-07-2006 15:53

Cuba: spearheading the Latin American revolution

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WOT: Eight Theses on the Destiny of the Concept of Workers' Rule

10-07-2006 06:46

These eight theses are the first installment of
"Seventeen Theses on the Destiny of the Revolution
in Communications and the Concept of Workers' Rule".
... brought to you by the "Weapon of Transparency" channel.

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Government sues individual workers over

08-07-2006 11:05

General Strike Needs You!
This week saw the Governments attacks on Unions reach a new low when the Government sued more than 100 workers for taking "illegal strike action". The workers face up to $28,000 in fines.

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New pamphlet: The Iron Column : Testament of a Revolutionary by Elias Manzanera

07-07-2006 20:34

Elias Manzanera helped to set up the Valencian anarchist militia unit, the Iron Column, to unleash social revolution against the military and fascist revolt of July 1936 which began the Spanish Civil War. The Iron Column was the most intransigent and most maligned of the anarchist militias. Manzanera served on its War Committee and here remembers both its achievements, and his comrades who fell fighting, not only against fascism, but for anarchy.

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Open forum about Latinomarican Indigenous Resistance at Rampart this sunday

07-07-2006 12:59

Oscar Olivera the Executive Secretary of the Federation of Factory Workers from Cochabamba, who in 2000 led the citizens’ uprising against the sale of Cochabamba’s water reserves to Bechtel and Roland Denis venezuelan marxist, working for indigenous rights in Venezuela, "making the Revolution within the Revolution" will be answering questions about the last developments over indigenous struggle in Bolivia andVenezuela in an open forum at Rampart this sunday in "Bolivia is not for Sale Event".

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Journalist in Tommy Sheridan libel trial infiltrated G8 'anarchist' camp

06-07-2006 13:32

Investigative journalist at heart of Tommy Sheridan libel case infiltrated G8 'anarchist' camp in 2005

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Sheffield Keep the NHS Public Protest

05-07-2006 16:49

Stall outside Sheffield Town Hall
Today is the 58th anniversary of the founding of the NHS and there was a protest outside Sheffield Town Hall against its privatisation.

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Toxteth - 25 Years On

04-07-2006 21:42

More than £400m has been spent trying to pretty up Toxteth since the riots 25 years ago, with another £130m earmarked for the near future. But unemployment and health problems are still rife, a few trees along Princes Avenue haven't made much difference.

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This Month's 'News Not Profit' from Liverpool

04-07-2006 14:21

Read all about it! Smithdown Against Demolition, Walmart, Flyposting, Jerry Springer and much much more.

More content than the Echo and infinitely cheaper! Print up and distribute!