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Frontpage: Step up solidarity for Gaza

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Step up solidarity for Gaza

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After BBC bans humanitarian appeal: Collect money for Palestine | Protest against the siege | Stop arms sales to Israel

Who says?

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Snippets from the week's news

Ken Olende: Barack Obama and the order to close Guantanamo

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US president Barack Obama has issued a number of executive orders in his first week in office that distance him from his predecessor George Bush – on Guantanamo Bay, stem cell research, reproductive rights and climate change.
But in other respects – such as the war in Afghanistan – he has made clear that it is business as usual for US imperialism.

Simon Basketter: New Labour peers paid fees by business lobbyists

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There are many odd things about the House of Lords. One minor anomaly is that lords don’t get paid a salary.
But they do get a tax free allowance of £335.50 for every day they bother to turn up at parliament.
These expenses are generous. For instance, in 2005 one Lord Taylor of Blackburn claimed over £57,000. But it has emerged there may be other ways for peers to make a little cash.

Tim Sanders: Cartoons: Tim: Children in Need

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BBC children in need (not Palestinian)

Gaza protests still going strong

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Protests and activities in solidarity with the people of Gaza are continuing across Britain, despite Israel’s announcement of a “ceasefire”.

Siân Ruddick: Student occupations light flame of revolt

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Students in Britain have been a dynamic and powerful part of the movement that has sprung up in solidarity with the Palestinians over the last few weeks.

Peter Murray: Union condemns BBC’s decision

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The NUJ journalists’ union says that BBC bosses have betrayed the broadcaster’s public service duty by refusing to broadcast the Disasters Emergency Committee (DEC) humanitarian aid appeal for Gaza.

Brian Richardson: Is racism dead? If only it were true

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Could Martin Luther King’s dream of a society without racism ever become a reality? For millions of people, the inauguration of Barack Obama as US president is a sign that maybe it can.

John Basketter: Corus sacks 3,500 to boost its profits

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Steel giant Corus has announced mass job losses this week – and the unions’ response contains some worrying signals.

Chris Bambery: Brown wants us to cheer up as the recession deepens

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Gordon Brown warned this week against “pessimism” over the economy.
Meanwhile Richard Lambert, the head of the bosses’ CBI organisation said Britain is not in any danger of going bust and we should be careful not to “get swept away by the gloomsters”.
But for many working class people there is precious little to be cheerful about as unemployment rockets and Britain is officially classified as being in recession for the first time since 1991.

Julia Armstrong: Crisis: Journalists fight for jobs and media standards

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Journalists are one group at the sharp end of bosses’ attempts to cut back on jobs and pay as the recession bites.
But more than 150 NUJ journalists’ union members drew up a plan for a coordinated fightback at a jobs summit in London last Saturday.

Yuri Prasad: Crisis: Urgent fight to stop post office privatisation

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If the government is serious about minimising unemployment, why is it pushing ahead with plans that will lead to the slashing of tens of thousands of jobs in Royal Mail?

Anindya Bhattacharyya: Crisis: Crisis in pension provision is growing

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The state pension is 100 years old this month – but new research shows it has plummeted in value over the past three decades. And the financial crisis is set to make this situation even worse.

Crisis: Gas bill ‘cut’ is still a rip off

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British Gas had the cheek to pretend it was doing customers a favour when it cut gas prices by 10 percent last week.
Yet after a price rise of almost 50 percent over the last year, the “cut” still leaves people struggling to pay bills 40 percent higher than a year ago.

Sadie Robinson: Carlisle students turn up heat on academies

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An angry protest by school students in Carlisle last week has highlighted the failures of the government’s city academies programme.

Colin Barker: Sacked activist Karen Reissmann takes fight for justice to tribunal

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Karen Reissmann’s employment tribunal began in Manchester on Monday.
Karen is a mental health nurse and Unison union branch chair who was suspended and then sacked for criticising deficiencies in mental health provision in Manchester.

Chris Bambery: How can we fan the flames of resistance against the effects of recession?

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This is a time of contrasts. On the one hand there is anger on the streets and campuses over Israel’s attack on Gaza. On the other a lack of struggle against the huge level of job cuts hitting workers in Britain.

Letters

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Israel’s barbaric attack reveals its true nature | Lambeth lessons for teachers | French lessons for Brown | Article was a return to form | Obituary made me proud | Probation can help offenders | Busting the Celtic myths | Show me a true socialist state | Mandelson and Royal Mail

Alex Callinicos: Gaza: a setback for the ‘war on terror’

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Israel’s unsuccessful attempt to crush Palestinian resistance movements during the Gaza offensive has created new problems for US imperialism.

Ron Margulies: Turkey stops being a ‘reliable friend’ of Israel

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For years the US and Israel have been able to rely on Turkey, a staunch ally of both countries and a key power in the Nato military alliance. But Israel’s war on Gaza has now thrown that relationship into turmoil.

Pressures on Egypt’s Muslim Brotherhood opposition party

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Opposition to Israel’s war on Gaza has exposed the shortcomings of the Muslim Brotherhood, the main opposition movement in Egypt, according to socialist activists in the country.

Kaye Stearman: Why is Britain supplying arms to Israel’s war machine?

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The proportion of British arms heading to Israel has increased in the last year, writes Kaye Stearman of the Campaign Against Arms Trade

Esme Choonara: The Hounding of David Oluwale – interview with Daniel Francis

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A play about David Oluwale’s tragic life and death can change perceptions, actor Daniel Francis tells Esme Choonara

Matthew Cookson: Review: When Do We Start Fighting?

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When Do We Start Fighting? is a new play that explores the radical movement of the 1960s and 1970s in the US.
It focuses on the Weathermen organisation, a group formed by radical students who were frustrated at the failure of the anti-war movement to end the Vietnam War.

Simon Basketter: Book Review: Good Friday: The Death of Irish Republicanism

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by Anthony McIntyre
Anthony McIntyre has been one of the most determined of Sinn Fein’s critics. But unlike most critics of the Irish Republican party he is not coming from the right.

Katherine Branney: CD Review: Working On A Dream – Bruce Springsteen

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Bruce Springsteen’s 16th studio album has the feel of a celebration to it, following the election of Barack Obama.

Film Review: Linha de Passe

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Directed by Walter Salles and Daniela Thomas. DVD out now.
This film explores the importance of football, religion and family in Brazil

Editorial: Media impartiality is neither possible nor desirable

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BBC executives came up with a thoroughly disingenuous excuse to justify their shameful refusal to broadcast the Disasters Emergency Committee’s appeal for Gaza

Editorial: The British government is implicated in torture

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Foreign secretary David Miliband has welcomed Barack Obama’s decision to close Guantanamo Bay.
But Miliband is still refusing to disclose the documents that would reveal the full extent of British involvement in “extraordinary rendition” and the interrogation of terror suspects.

Editorial: Pope Benedict and a history of bigotry

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The Roman Catholic church has never been averse to taking reactionary positions on a whole range of political issues.
But even critics of the church will have been taken aback by Pope Benedict’s latest move – revoking the excommunication of four bishops associated with the Society of St Pius X (SSPX).

Stefan Bornost: Film: The truth behind ‘Valkyrie’ and the coup against Hitler

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The film Valkyrie dramatises an attempt to assassinate Adolf Hitler. German writer and activist Stefan Bornost looks at the reality

Anindya Bhattacharyya + Sadie Robinson: Crisis: Are the banks to blame?

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Amid growing anger at the bankers, Anindya Bhattacharyya and Sadie Robinson look at the role of banks in the wider economy and trace the origins of the crisis.

Jimmy Ross: Anger in Glasgow at attack on education

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Over 200 angry parents demonstrated outside Glasgow City Chambers on Friday of last week.
They were protesting over the proposed closure of 13 primary schools and 12 nursery schools in the city which was being discussed by the council executive.

Nazi link to Yunus Bakhsh smears?

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What is the role of Nazi activists in the north east of England in the long running campaign to see health worker Yunus Bakhsh sacked from his job and expelled from the Unison union?

Simon Basketter: Jobs meltdown as crisis grows

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An astounding 80,000 jobs were axed in Britain, Europe and the US in just one day on Monday.

Chris Bambery: Protests bring down Iceland’s government

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The government of Iceland became the first to be driven out of office in this recession by a wave of popular protest this week.