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Frontpage: Take the banks from the bosses

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Take the banks from the bosses

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No more public money without public control
As economic recession tears into Britain, millions of us spend our nights fearing for the future. More than half of all workers are worried that they might be on the dole by the end of the year.

Who Says?

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Israel in the week's quotes

Siân Ruddick: A revival of student militancy over Gaza

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A mood of militancy and radicalism is sweeping Britain’s campuses following Israel’s attack on Gaza.
Mass demonstrations and rallies, as well as occupations, are taking place as growing numbers of students become radicalised.

Activists take to the streets against the slaughter in Gaza

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The scale and breadth of the demonstrations against Israel’s assault on Gaza has underlined a resurgence of the anti-war movement in Britain.
They have also shown the massive shift in attitudes towards Israel that has taken place over the last few years.

Councillors condemn Israeli terror

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Preston council passed an emergency motion last week to condemn Israel’s military attack and economic blockade of Gaza, and to call for the suspension of the economic agreement between the EU and Israel.
It also recognised Hamas as “legitimately and democratically elected representatives of the people in Gaza”.

In Brief: London demo targets Israeli embassy

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Up to 10,000 people attended a rally in Trafalgar Square on Saturday of last week.
Speakers included Lindsey German, the convenor of the Stop the War Coalition, who condemned Israel’s attacks and the West’s continued support for it.

Chris Newlove: In Brief: Mass march in Middlesbrough

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The biggest political demonstration in Middlesbrough’s recent history took place on Saturday of last week, as around 2,500 people filled the streets in support of Palestine.

Tim Sanders: Cartoon: Baby (killer) on board

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Simon Assaf: Israel’s bloody war fails to achieve aims

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Israel claimed victory over Hamas and other Palestinian resistance organisations as it announced a unilateral ceasefire last Sunday after spending three weeks pounding Gaza.
Israeli leaders hoped they could destroy the resistance by demolishing Palestinian government buildings, schools, offices and homes. They launched wave after wave of attacks, which killed over 1,300 Palestinians.

Beirut conference calls for solidarity with Palestine

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Palestine has become a unifying force across the globe. That was the main sentiment of a conference against imperialism that took place in Lebanon last weekend.
The meeting brought together activists from the Middle East and the rest of the world, including Britain’s Stop the War Coalition and the Nouveau Parti Anticapitaliste in France.

Alex Callinicos: Obama's scramble to buy time from voters

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The conventional view is that Barack Obama’s presidency is going to struggle with the contradiction between the huge expectations invested in him and the glum realities of office. I don’t think it’s quite as simple as that.

Esme Choonara: Obama sworn in amid hope and uncertainty

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Thousands of Americans have travelled to Washington DC this week to attend the inauguration of Barack Obama as the new US president.

A conflict of interests in Obama's different supporters

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The fundamental test that Obama faces is not so much about the timescale or extent of his policy changes, but about the conflicting bases of his underlying support.

Chris Bambery: World rulers panic as banks’ crisis returns

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Gordon Brown’s bailout for the banks reflects a growing sense of panic among the ruling class as the economic crisis deepens.
And no wonder they are panicked – as all the signs are that the crisis looks set to get much, much worse.

Simon Basketter: Gordon Brown throws more money into growing banking black hole

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The latest bailout of the banks will cost at least £200 billion according to the government’s own figures – and we will get nothing in return.
The bailout comes on top of the £250 billion in credit and the £37 billion in hard cash that was handed to the banks last October.

A bank worker speaks out

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“The anger and bitterness of workers at the Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS) is intense.
We all know that what has happened to bring this bank to its knees has nothing to do with us.
It is 100 percent the responsibility of the bosses.”

Bailout will mean cuts

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The government is committed to £5 billion in “efficiency savings”.
In plain language that means more public sector cuts and privatisation.

Siân Ruddick: Radical Wales: Smashing the myth of a united Wales

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In her final column Siân Ruddick looks at workers’ resistance from the 1920s to today

Sadie Robinson: Don’t buy Gordon Brown’s lies on Heathrow expansion

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As the government approves Heathrow expansion plans, Sadie Robinson looks at the myths of job creation and “green” aviation – and how we can resist.

Letters

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Stand together against imperialism | Stop Thailand’s attack on activist | Anger at Gaza pain | Fighting to save legal services for the public | Why the union leaders are afraid | Time to wield the axe again | Lapdancing is not freedom | Terror must be rejected | Unite across the borders | Podcasts of the resistance

Sadie Robinson: Money shops: Pushing us into the red

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As unemployment bites and banks refuse credit to the most vulnerable, our high streets are increasingly playing host to a new breed of vulture – the moneyshops. Sadie Robinson looks at what is driving their success,

David Jardine: Malaysian skeletons refuse to stay in the cupboard

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David Jardine looks at what campaigns to highlight British atrocities in Malaysia tell us about the crimes of colonialism.

Siân Ruddick: Medicine and War exhibition: Is war ever responsible for human progress?

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The grotesque way in which the military and medicine are linked reveals much about our society.

Alan Gibson: Books: Flat Earth News

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It should come as no surprise that the media is in crisis. Lies, distortion and omission are all par for the course.
Nick Davies’ magnificent Flat Earth News, which is now available in paperback, goes a long way toward explaining why.

Editorial: Hamas has the right to resist Israeli terror

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Herschel Grynszpan, a young Jewish man, walked into the German embassy in Paris in November 1938 and shot a Nazi diplomat dead.
Grynszpan’s family had been stripped of their property, deported from Nazi Germany and stranded in a refugee camp on the Polish border. The killing was carried out in protest at this.

Editorial: Beware nationalism in jobs fight

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How our unions respond to job losses matters. Too often there is “disappointment” but little thought of action.
But at construction sites in Nottinghamshire and Kent there is a campaign for jobs. Some 400 workers protested outside a Nottinghamshire power station site on Monday.
That is for the good. What is less clear is why the unions have chosen to focus on the question of whether foreign workers are on the site.

Editorial: Trevor Phillips is wrong: Police are still racist

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In a speech marking the tenth anniversary of the Macpherson report into the murder of black teenager Stephen Lawrence, the equalities and human rights commissioner Trevor Phillips argued that the police should no longer be accused of institutional racism.

Dan Mayer: Socialism or Zionism: a tale of two grandads

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Socialism, not Zionism, was once the dominant political force among European Jews. It’s time to reclaim that tradition.

Simon Basketter: Iran’s 1979 revolution

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Thirty years ago Iran’s revolt struck a blow against US imperialism and showed the power of workers in the Middle East.

Israel is guilty of war crimes

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Israel has been using banned weapons such as white phosphorus and Dime bombs during its assault on Gaza, according to eyewitness evidence from Irish activist Caoimhe Butterly.

Gordon Brown gives Israel a licence to kill

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The Israeli army’s murderous assault on Gaza has been carried out with weapons made in Britain.
The British government licensed £24 million of British arms exports to Israel in the first half of last year – a £6 million increase on exports licensed during the whole of 2007.

New Derry protest against Raytheon's complicity in Israel's war crimes (online only)

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Nine women protested in Derry, Northern Ireland, to stop Raytheon selling military components to Israel.

Gaza protests continue around Britain (online only)

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Protests against Israel’s assault on Gaza have continued around Britain.

Pictures of Gaza protests around Britain (1) (online only)

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Middlesbrough | Nottingham | Whitstable | St Albans

Pictures of Gaza protests around Britain (2) (online only)

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Birmingham | Exeter | Dundee | Oxford

Pictures of Gaza protests around Britain (3) (online only)

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Manchester | Bradford | Cambridge