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Issue 37 of Socialist Appeal is now available. 

El Militante Sin Fronteras

Nuevo periódico marx­ista de la Liga Internacional de los Trabajadores

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How Big Was Your Christmas Bonus?
Written by Zach McCall   
Thursday, 17 January 2008
Worker's holiday bonusThe holiday season has passed, and a good deal of us are probably financially strained from spending our hard-earned money on gifts and food for the season.  We also face rising energy costs, as oil has hit a record $100 per barrel.  On the other hand, CEOs have been receiving large bonuses.  Let us compare how well the working class and the executives have fared over the holiday season.
 
New Orleans Public Housing Under Attack
Written by Karl Belin   
Wednesday, 16 January 2008
New Orleans Public HousingFifteen protesters were arrested on December 20 in New Orleans, Louisiana. Standing outside of the City Council building, they demanded that the council not issue permits to the Housing Authority of New Orleans to demolish 4,500 public housing units damaged (and, in many cases, only partially damaged) by Hurricane Katrina. This is yet another attack on the workers of New Orleans who have been through hell and, well, high water.
 
Why Workers Need a Labor Party
Written by Ed Riley   
Tuesday, 15 January 2008

Construction WorkersIt is frustrating that the American working class has no party that represents their interests.  The vast majority of the 300 million people in this country are workers and their families.  They are people who sell their labor power to the boss and depend on the wages and benefits to feed their families.  If they are unemployed for a stretch, they can lose everything.  However, we must be clear: the working class has tremendous potential power.  Not one item would be produced in a factory, not a street would be cleaned, electricity would not be generated and communication could not function as it does, without the labor of the workers. 

Just as workers have learned that if we band together at work into a union, where our strength is united into a single force, we can more effectively fight the boss, if we band together into a political party, created by and under the democratic control of the labor movement, we can better fight the government of the employers.

 
More Reality Strikes Hollywood!
Written by a BECTU member   
Monday, 14 January 2008
hollwoods-union-strike-sall.jpgThe Writers Guild of America strike continues in the US, winning an important victory with the cancellation of the Golden Globe awards show through union solidarity. The strike shows that it is not only industrial workers who are able to organise effectively. How this strike unfolds will have implications for unions throughout the US.  
 
Election 2008 & the U.S. Working Class
Written by The Editorial Board   
Sunday, 13 January 2008

Election 2008Editorial for Socialist Appeal 36

The campaign to elect the next President of the United States is in full swing. The Democratic and Republican primaries and caucuses have begun, accompanied by a media frenzy intended to make it seem as though there truly are significant differences between the candidates, and to distract working people from the pressing problems we face. As we go to press, the race to nominate the next presidential candidates of big business is still wide open. But the real question is, who will represent the working class majority of American society?

 
Intervention of the Pakistani Marxists in the movement against the assassination of Benazir Bhutto
Written by Adam Pal   
Wednesday, 09 January 2008
We have just received this extremely important report from the comrades in Pakistan. It indicates that the assassination of Benazir Bhutto has had the effect of a catalyst that is impelling the masses onto the revolutionary road. The situation is now beginning to resemble that of tsarist Russia after Bloody Sunday in 1905. The Pakistan Marxists of The Struggle are playing a leading role in the mass movement, as this report clearly shows.
 
Pakistan: Government covers up the crime - masses demand action against conspirators
Written by Alan Woods   
Sunday, 06 January 2008
Benazir Bhutto The murder of Benazir Bhutto has led to an explosion of popular anger. Pakistan is convulsed by rioting and mass protests. Society has been stirred up to the depths. Raw human emotion has spilled over onto the streets of every city, town and village. The army and police are powerless to halt the tide of indignation. The government is shaken to the core.
 
Pakistan: The assassination of Benazir Bhutto
Written by Alan Woods   
Saturday, 05 January 2008
Benazir BhuttoBenazir Bhutto has been killed in a suicide bomb attack. The leader of the Pakistan People's Party (PPP) had just addressed a rally of PPP supporters in the town of Rawalpindi when the attack took place. First reports talked of at least 100 killed in the attack, but more recent news put the figure at 20. This murderous onslaught on the PPP came in the middle of an election campaign where, after years of military dictatorship, the masses were striving for a change.
 
Audio File: The Permanent Revolution
Written by Fred Weston   
Wednesday, 02 January 2008
fourth-copy.jpgFred Weston of the International Marxist Tendency, and editor of 'In Defence of Marxism', talks on Leon Trotsky's theory of the Permanent Revolution. This marxist concept constitued the main ideological opposition to Stalin's theory of 'socialism in one country', which came to be the dominant outlook of the Soviet bureaucracy, that grew out of the isolation and degeneration of the young workers state. 
 
Audio File: Marxism and the National Question
Written by Linda Clarke   
Tuesday, 01 January 2008
lenin_the_new_brush1.jpgAt a meeting in London recently Linda Clarke of the Socialist Appeal talks about Marxism in relation to the national Question. Linda talks about the history and evolution of the nation state, the meaning of bourgeois nationalism, and deals with the particular circumstances of the national question in relation to Scotland, Ireland and the position of the Marxists during the Falklands war.
 
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