Fra Socialist Worker nr. 1672 |
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Frontpage: Brown bows to bosses’ blackmail |
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Firms paid to pollute, Huge handouts to the rich: Brown bows to bosses’ blackmail |
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GORDON BROWN handed Britain's biggest companies a huge incentive to carry on wrecking the Earth this week. Everyone sensible knows that action is needed over global warming. But, after intense pressure from the bosses, Brown has driven policy in completely the opposite direction. |
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Legacy of the 1989 revolts |
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TEN YEARS ago this week many thousands of people reduced the Berlin Wall to rubble. They breached the divide which rulers East and West had maintained throughout the Cold War. They were reacting against the repressive regimes across Eastern Europe which they were told were socialist. |
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Alex Callinicos: The harder they come |
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JUST OVER a year ago the world economy found itself standing at the edge of an abyss. The Russian crash of August 1998, coming in the wake of the Asian economic crisis, sent global financial markets into panic. That seems far behind us today. |
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Vote goes against republic plan: Did Australians back the queen? |
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RIGHT WING forces celebrated last weekend as they heard the result of the Australian referendum on whether the queen should remain the country's head of state. Australian voters narrowly rejected a proposal to establish a republic, headed by a president, by 54 to 46 percent. |
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Zimbabwe’s unions prepare to fight |
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Doctors in Zimbabwe, southern Africa, have won big concessions from the government after a strike lasting over a month. |
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Paul McGarr: Shock new warning: Temperatures could rise like never before |
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CATACLYSMIC NEW evidence of the threat of global warming emerged last week. As government ministers from across the world met to discuss the issue in Germany, scientists warned that global temperatures could rise faster than at any time in Earth's history. |
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Sam Ashman: Is Marxism out of date?: Taking back what's ours |
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THERE IS no doubt about it: radical solutions are necessary to solve the problems facing the globe. |
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Mark Steel: Mark Steel reviews ‘A People’s History of the World’: History to make a future |
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There is something slightly satisfying about reading a history of the whole world. You find yourself thinking, “While I’m waiting for the kettle to boil, I can do the 11th Century”. A five stop train journey can get you through the decline of the Roman Empire and a bit of the Crusades (with a bit of concentration).
Chris Harman: “A People's History of the World” |
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