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Fight university cuts

February 16, 2010
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Fight university cuts

 Students and workers Unite: Fight university cuts   Since last autumn, when the vice chancellor of Sussex University announced a savage programme of job losses and cuts, we have been organising protests through our ‘Stop the Cuts’ campaign (StC).  Claire Laker Mansfield, Sussex Socialist Students From porters to professors, every campus worker at Sussex University will be affected by...
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“Capitalism is an evil, and you cannot regulate evil”

February 16, 2010
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Karl Marx likened capitalism to a vampire which lives and expands by sucking “living labour” from the worker by extracting “surplus value”, “unpaid labour”. Peter Taaffe, Socialist Party general secretary, reviews Michael Moore’s ‘Capitalism: A Love Story’ But that is while the worker lives. Now we learn through Michael Moore, the US radical film-maker, that the...
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Trade unions in Britain – are they ready for the coming battles?

February 16, 2010
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Link to this page: http://www.socialistparty.org.uk/issue/611/8822 The Socialist 10 February 2010 Trade unions in Britain – are they ready for the coming battles? Recently, chancellor Alistair Darling said that halving the government’s deficit in four years was ‘non-negotiable’. He claimed that health, education, police and overseas aid budgets will not be affected by his cuts. But the Institute for Fiscal...
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CUTS TO JOBS AND SERVICES AT WALTHAM FOREST

Equal Pay - Yes, Cuts in Pay -- No