Lead story

Keep up the protests — they work!

by Daphne Liddle

THE G8 SUMMIT in Enniskillen ended with a highly trumpeted international agreement to crack down on both tax avoidance and tax evasion by giant multinationals. But it is worded too vaguely to have any real effect.

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Stop western intervention in Syria

by New Worker Correspondent

DOZENS of people gathered in Grosvenor Square last Saturday to protest at western interference in Syria and proposals from the British and US governments to arms the rebels — who include many extreme Muslim fundamentalists like Al Qaeda. The protest was organised by the Stop the War Coalition.

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Editorial

Who are the friends of the working class?

“THE LEFT” in politics in Britain is a strange mixture of people from many different walks of life. But alas it is all too often the ideas of the intelligentsia that predominate: the people that everyone pays attention to and respect, the great and famous intellectuals like Naom Chomsky and film director Oliver Stone. Most of them are very genuine people, coming out and criticising the way capitalism is run and condemning the savagery of modern French-UK-US (FUKUS) imperialism.

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