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Urgent Solidarity Appeal - Trade Unionist imprisoned for another year !

Matt Wells
20th August 2010 at 12:34
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Dear Comrade This is a request for urgent expressions of solidarity for Mansour Osanloo, the Chairman of the Steering Committee of the Trade Union of the Vahed Bus Company of Tehran and Suburbs, Iran. Please send your name, organisation and any trade union/political position you hold to (JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) copied to me so that it can published on the IWSN website. The following is a statement issued by the Vahed union.
Mansour Osanloo sentenced to one more year in prison [continue/comment...]
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Yes, let’s support Diane, critically

Marie Lynam
19th August 2010 at 11:05
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Hello all
With the question of who is Diane, I think it is important to remember that we are faced with tactics.
It was correct, for instance, to vote for Livingstone as Mayor, though he supported the bombing of Yugoslavia. I believe a few other criticisms could be made of him. But in my opinion, we should support him next time round. In part, this is because he has the ability and a certain public interest at heart. In part, because this is because he is known and trusted far and wide in the Labour masses. In part also as a means to oppose the right wing of course.
So with Diane, many factors must be taken into account, even though she goes along with 50% cuts. She does this because she does not see beyond the system. She does not analyse Venezuela, although Venezuela is a vivid example showing how to get out of the capitalist system. Hence Diane is trapped within the orthodoxies of capitalism; and within these orthodoxies as she sees them, cuts have to be made, and the books have to be balanced.  [continue/comment...]
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No Going Back to New Labour, eh?

Marie Lynam
26th July 2010 at 17:37
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Hello all Wasn’t it great that Clegg could only defend himself from Jack Straw by firing the bullet that the Iraq war was illegal? I take it there is an enquiry going on regarding this. It is therefore possible, since Clegg can do it, to pre-empt the result of enquiries.
The Labour Party, with a lot of help from its LRC friends and other tendencies of the Left, needs to start a revision of its imperialist stance. Starting with the ‘illegal’ war on Iraq.  [continue/comment...]
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Renouncing New Labour

Michael Chewter
15th July 2010 at 10:21
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With John McDonnell excluded from the Labour leadership contest and despite the best efforts of Dianne Abbott, it looks as though the Labour Party is now sleep-walking into a revised version of New Labour. [continue/comment...]

The sick, the disabled and their carers under attack.

Michael Chewter
28th June 2010 at 16:41
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What is the Labour Left able to do to support the most vulnerable from attack from the coalition ? I would like to see the Left leading the campaign against the savage attack on benefits which is now under way. This attack is based on an acceleration of the welfare ‘reform’ policies of New Labour.  [continue/comment...]

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