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Wednesday, 15 May 2013 14:31
As rigidly neoliberal rules on spending and monetary policy push ordinary Bulgarians to despair, the Left needs to offer a coherent, credible alternative writes Dancho Medarov
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In the wake of this week's local elections, where Ukip took nearly a quarter of all votes, Alex Snowdon looks at what they represent and how the left should respond
McClusky's victory is an endorsement of the strategy for a fighting union by Unite activists, but the 15% turnout shows the need to win this strategy with the wider membership
In the latest edition of Strike! magazine Chris Nineham remembers the power of protest
Labour activists are an important part of the anti-cuts movement in many areas. Reuben Bard-Rosenberg argues for a united anti-cuts movement involving those inside and outside the Labour Party
Historian Neil Faulkner on Thatcher, the neoliberal counter-revolution, and the battle for the future
What is the nature of the ongoing struggle in Egypt and where is it today? Egyptian socialist Tamer Wageeh provides some answers
The largest and most radical changes to the welfare state since its inception come into being this month - Adam Tomes reviews six of the major changes being introduced and the myths used to justify them
Western imperial powers have ironically chosen the tenth anniversary of their calamitous invasion of Iraq to intensify the diplomatic and military pressure on the Assad regime in Syria
The Royal Charter does not signal the end of press freedom or licensing of the press, but neither does it deal with the question of ownership and control at the heart of the problem
The sight of queues appearing outside banks in Cyprus over the weekend has raised the spectre of contagious bank runs across Europe - the eurocrisis is back
Obama's failure to avert a devastating sequence of cuts represents another betrayal of the millions of American workers who voted to give him a second chance in the November election
George Osborne will deliver another austerity budget against a background of divisions in the Coalition, growing public hostility to cuts and a leap in support for Ukip
The bedroom tax is a hateful, illogical and unjust attack on vulnerable people by a government of millionaires, finds Adam Tomes
The UK’s recent credit downgrade from triple A to AA1 is a disaster for George Osborne and his austerity programme
As the fourth largest European economy goes to the polls Alastair Stephens looks at the background to another potential crisis for the Euro and austerity
Mervyn King's rosy assessment of the prospects for the UK economy may be wishful thinking argues James MeadwayMore Articles...
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31 May - 1 June 2013
an international festival
In the parks, halls and public spaces around Kings Cross
With:
David Harvey, Tariq Ali, Tony Benn, Owen Jones, Nina Power, Sanum Ghafoor, Andrew Murray, Laurie Penny, Lindsey German, Jeremy Corbyn MP, Paul Le Blanc, Terry Eagleton, Paul Gilroy and more...
Saturday 22 June 2013
9:30am – 5pm
Central Hall Westminster
Events
Books
How a Century of War Changed the Lives of Women
By Lindsey German
A Marxist History of the World
From Neanderthals to Neoliberals
By Neil Faulkner
The People V Tony Blair
Politics, the Media and the Anti-War Movement
By Chris Nineham
Timelines
A Political History of the Modern World
By John Rees
A People's History of London
By Lindsey German and John Rees
Counterfire Books
The People Demand: A short history of the Arab revolutions
By John Rees and Joseph Daher
Strategy and tactics: how the left can organise to transform society
By John Rees
Capitalism and Class Consciousness: the ideas of Georg Lukacs
By Chris Nineham
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