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Socialist Review 355: Content

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Ben Windsor: Celebrate People's History: The poster book of resistance and revolution

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This book collects the posters produces by the Celebrate People's History project over a period of 12 years. Although the projet's director, Josh McPhee, is a Chicago-based anarchist, he has commissioned them from a wide variety of artists engaged in different campaigns around the world.

Mark Thomas: Editorial

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The uprising in Tunesia marks the first revolution of the great financial and economic crisis that has ripped through global capitalism since 2008.

Amy Leather: Labour's Pains

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The shock resignation of Alan Johnson as Labour's shadow chancellor and the appointment of Ed Balls to the post has brought to the fore Labour's internal tensions over its direction and strategy.

Patrick Ward: Actor, faker, copper, spy

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Last month brought the revelation that at least four undercover police officers had been operating within the environmental and anti-capitalist movements in Britain for several years.

Patrick Ward: New enclosures

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Government plans to sell Britain's forests have run up against massive opposition from the public.

Mark Thomas: Food prices leave many hungry for change

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Global food prices are once again rising sharply. The UN Food and Agriculture Organisation's monthly index of agricultural commodity prices rocketed upwards by over 30 percent in the last six months of 2010.

Patrick Ward: Money versus sense in Knightsbridge

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One Hyde Park, the new apartment block in Knightsbridge, will offer London some much needed new housing stock.

Patrick Ward: A law unto themselves

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Israel's attack on the Gaza-bound aid ships in international waters which left nine activists dead last May was perfectly legal – according to Israel.

Patrick Ward: No wretched apology from Tony Blair

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From one whitewash to another. The Iraq Inquiry heard more evidence from Tony Blair.

Michael Rosen: Defending Libraries

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Libraries have become one of the expendable, junkable parts of modern capitalism.

Feedback

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Education – China – Unions

Phil Rushton: Letter from ...: Letter from Italy

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With Silvio Berlusconi's government embroiled in fresh controversy, new struggles are taking off.

Dominic Kavakeb + Héla Yousfi + Fathi Chamki + Anne Alexander: Revolution shakes the Middle East: The Battle of Tunis

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The revolt in Tunisia has sent shivers down the spines of dictators across the region. Anne Alexander looks at the roots of the revolution and considers its broader implications, while Tunisian activists Héla Yousfi and Fathi Chamki give their accounts of the uprising and Dominic Kavakeb examines the role of the internet.

Pat Stack: Violence and Legitimacy

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Pat Stack argues that the media frenzy about direct action at recent student protests is based on the assumption that state violence is legitimate – and that we don't have the right to win.

Steve Underhill: Union-made: They won't divide us

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The female workers among Birmingham's refuse collection staff have been underpaid for years. They rightly put in equal pay claims and claiming for back pay, and this can range from £30,000 to £60,000 each. It should have been dealt with years ago, but it never was.

Alan Kenny + Jack Farmer: Creating cities without imagination

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New Labour placed great emphasis on urban regeneration, but with deeply conflicting results. Owen Hatherley spoke to Alan Kenny and Jack Farmer about his new book and Britain's ruinous architecture.

Laura Miles: LGBT: Not just toleration, liberation

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LGBT history month was launched after the scrapping of the Tories' Section 28 legislation. But, six years on, Tory cuts will hit LGBT people hard.

Mark Thomas: Organise to win – politics, leadership and the movement

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The student protests and actions against corporate tax-dodgers have posed the question of how best to organise a movement against government cuts and fees. Mark L Thomas argues that coordinated activity and open political discussion are vital to the resistance.

Mark Harvey: Book Review: The Idea of Communism

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Edited by Costas Douzinas and Slavoj Žižek, Verso, £14.99
A conference to discuss whether the idea of communism is still of relevance to the project of human emancipation was organised by London's Birkbeck College in March 2009. Interest and ticket uptake were so high that the planned location had to be moved three times, eventually to the Institute of Education. Those of us who might have attended but for the £100 ticket price can at least console ourselves with this collection of the 15 papers that were presented.

Julie Sherry: Revolutionary Lessons: Do workers still have power?

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Julie Sherry argues that the working class still has the power to change society.