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New on http://www.workersliberty.org.uk

Steve Aitmatov | 24.07.2002 10:34

This is a selection of new articles from "Solidarity", available online at  http://www.workersliberty.org.uk

Public sector strike: reports and analysis; Ideas for freedom; Capitalism after WorldCom; Livingstone and Labour - should he be let back in; Boycotts of Israel; Civil liberties under attack; IRA apologises - why now? Israel-Palestine - Hijacked history; Picasso/Matisse at the Tate Modern; Put socialism back on the agenda; Colombia: 100 years of corruption and violence / Coca-Cola action day; SWP backs "2 states"?

24 June 2002
New on  http://www.workersliberty.org.uk
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fortnightly socialist newspaper Solidarity, are a selection of
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Public sector strike; Ideas for freedom; Capitalism after WorldCom;
Livingstone; Boycotts of Israel; Civil liberties under attack; IRA
apology; Israel-Palestine - Hijacked history
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A MILLION COUNCIL WORKERS STRIKE
On 17 July, for the first time in 23 years local government unions
joined together to take national strike action - over pay.
Dion d' Silva reports.

IDEAS FOR FREEDOM
"If you want to go to a political rally where everyone agrees with
each other and all you do is unquestioningly agree to "the line" or
to cheer your leaders, do not, under any circumstances, go to Ideas
For Freedom. You'll hate it."
Jean Lane reports on the Workers' Liberty / Solidarity event, Ideas
For Freedom 2002, held on 13-14 July in London.

WILL THE CAPITALIST ICE AGE COME?
""Capitalism has had a rotten time lately", says the big business
magazine The Economist. "Not as rotten as in 1917..." (when the
Russian workers took state power) it adds, in case its readers
panic..."
Colin Foster looks at capitalism in the aftermath of the WorldCom
collapse.

SHOULD LABOUR LET LIVINGSTONE BACK IN?
In an article not entirely sympathetic to Ken Livingstone, Annie
O'Keefe argues that Livingstone should be let back into Labour Party
membership, as despite his faults, this could represent an important
defeat for the hard Blairites; and that socialists, even those of the
Socialist Alliance, should not entirely neglect Labour.

A JEW HUNT WON'T HELP THE PALESTINIANS
This editorial from Solidarity argues that "boycotting Israel implies
that only Israel is responsible for the present tragic conflict" and
that "this is not true".

DEFEND CIVIL LIBERTIES
Lucy Clement looks at the government's latest planned assault on
civil liberties: restricting the right to trial by jury; and the
introduction of identity cards.

WHY DOES THE IRA APOLOGISE NOW?
"There is nothing qualitively new here: they have "apologised" before
for specific acts....This apology and its timing is a calculated
political act to protect the IRA now....Their connection with
"Marxist" guerrillas in Colombia has alienated the US government."
by John O'Mahony.

ISRAEL AND THE ARABS: HIJACKED HISTORY
Matt Cooper reviews the Socialist Workers Party's current literature
on Israel-Palestine, John Rose's "The Hijack State" and Anne
Alexander's "The New Intifada".

and...
MATISSE PICASSO AT THE TATE MODERN
by Oona Swan

COLOMBIA: ONE HUNDRED YEARS OF CORRUPTION AND VIOLENCE
by Gerry Byrne

SWP BACKS TWO STATES IN ISRAEL-PALESTINE?
by Rhodri Evans

PUT SOCIALISM BACK ON THE AGENDA
Editorial from Solidarity
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Comments

Display the following 12 comments

  1. No state but Palestine. — lenin
  2. Workers Liberty, with its peculiar name — Space-Trotskyist
  3. SWP racism — Dan
  4. Lowering the tone — bored revolutionist
  5. Dan, get a grip. — lenin
  6. What does the SWP believe? — Dan
  7. Crikey! — bored revolutionist
  8. Something shows, here — Acorn Tributor
  9. *sigh* — lenin
  10. Support the Jews — Dan
  11. Poor W L !!! — Space- trotskyist
  12. Resistance, eh? — lenin
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