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Act now to take on the Tories – vote yes to join mass strikes

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Tom Walker: Act now to take on the Tories – vote yes to join mass strikes

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The biggest ballot in Britain’s trade union history has begun.
Ballot papers were posted out this week to a massive 1.1 million members of the public sector union Unison.

Sadie Robinson: Cuts will drive 600,000 more children into poverty

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Falling incomes will push 600,000 more children into poverty over the next two years. Youth unemployment is expected to soar past one million. And the Tories are cutting public sector jobs at five times the rate originally predicted. This is the horrifying situation facing working class people in Britain.

Who says?: The week in quotes...

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In their own words

Tim Sanders: Tim’s view

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Alex Callinicos: Printing cash won’t end banking crisis

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“This is the most serious financial crisis we’ve seen, at least since the 1930s, if not ever,” Mervyn King, governor of the Bank of England, admitted last week. He was explaining why the Bank has begun a new bout of quantitative easing (QE), worth £75 billion.

Letters

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Standing up against sexism in colleges – Is green the new red? – Save jobs? – Labour councils should resist every single cut – Strikes in Greece have inspired me – Impressed by Occupy Wall St – Off with their heads, Again – Tax group not what it seems – Thanks David Cameron – Say no to four year pay deals

17 October 1961: Massacre in Paris

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Fifty years ago police in Paris killed over 200 Algerian protesters and threw their bodies into the River Seine. Historian Jean-Luc Einaudi exposed the murders in his book The Battle of Paris. He spoke to Sellouma from France’s New Anticapitalist Party.

17 October 1961: Eyewitnesses to the 1961 Paris massacre

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A senior steward hurried to give me a green armband as I arrived. I effectively became a traffic warden, except that I was directing Algerians—women and men, old people and children.

What do socialists say?: There’s no such thing as a ‘good capitalist’

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Can capitalism cast off its unending, destructive greed and discover a nicer nature?

Judith Orr: Women, work and walkouts

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The strikes across the public sector on 30 November will see more women walk out than ever before in Britain. Judith Orr looks at how women built a tradition of fighting back.

Hossam el-Hamalawy: Eyewitness in Cairo: Copts were gunned down by the military

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At least 23 protesters were killed in Cairo last night, Sunday, as the army and police carried out a massacre in front of the state TV building.

Revolutionære Socialister, Egypten: Egyptian Revolutionary Socialists’ statement on the massacre of Copts at Maspero

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Glory to the martyrs of Bloody Sunday – Shame on the military and the reactionaries

Simon Basketter: “War on Terror”: Was Jack Straw involved in rendition and torture of Libyan man?

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Did the British government send a family to be tortured in Libya as a gift to Colonel Gaddafi? Sami al-Saadi says so—and he is claiming damages for the years of torture he suffered.

Outcry over Bahrain medics forces a shift

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The Bahraini government announced last week that medical staff threatened with 15 years in prison will now be tried by a civilian court.

Yemen’s premier says he’ll quit

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The Yemeni opposition movement is rightly suspicious of claims made by president Ali Abdullah Saleh on state television last Saturday.

Bedouins say no to Israeli removal plan

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Several thousand Bedouins demonstrated in the Israeli city of Beersheva on Thursday of last week against the government’s Praver plan to dislocate them.

Eyewitness report from New York: Occupy Wall Street: ‘A new generation is fighting back’

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Occupations in protest against corporate greed are spreading across the US. The first protest—Occupy Wall Street—began in New York’s financial district.

Activists plan to Occupy London

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Activists plan to bring the spirit of the US and Spanish demos to Britain this Saturday.

Noam Chomsky: involvement of workers is key

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Writer and campaigner Noam Chomsky told an audience of over 1,000 that the new occupation movement has a “rare” level of mainstream support. He called the protests “mass popular demonstrations against capitalism”.

Pictures of Occupy Wall Street

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Anindya Bhattacharyya: Occupy Wall Street: Resistance fills the streets of New York

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Up to 100,000 supporters of the Occupy Wall Street movement came together in New York last Saturday. It was the climax of a global day of action against economic injustice.

Anindya Bhattacharyya: Occupy Wall Street protesters force New York mayor to back off

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Occupy Wall Street protesters were in a confident and defiant mood this morning, Friday, after an attempt to evict them from their protest site failed.

Siân Ruddick + Anindya Bhattacharyya + Dave Sewell: Hundreds of thousands occupy globally against injustice

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Hundreds of thousands of people took to the streets in hundreds of cities across the world today, Saturday. They were united by a sense that something is seriously wrong with the economic system we live in – and a desire to change it.