http://www.marxist.org.uk marxist action group Thu, 06 May 2010 18:48:13 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en The fascist British National 'Party' 'candidate' for Romford has been filmed beating up Asian youths in the street after taunting them as 'robbers' and threatening them. Boots and fists are the reality behind the lies of the BNP's absurd fiction of 'voluntary repatriation' -- you can't really dignify it with ... http://www.marxist.org.uk/2010/05/05/the-real-bnp/ Socialist Appeal assesses the crisis in Greece. The Greek workers are clearly not prepared to pay for the crisis of capitalism. According to an opinion poll by Mega, a private Greek television channel, more than 70 per cent of those questioned said they were against the government’s decision to seek help ... http://www.marxist.org.uk/2010/05/02/prospects-for-greece/ The Tory Party, a party which caucuses with the European nationalist right, turns out to have a genuine eye-rolling, hand-waving, far right tent-show revivalist as a candidate and 'family' policy adviser. Despite the new clothes on the shop window dummies, it's the same old nasty party pedalling the same old ... http://www.marxist.org.uk/2010/05/02/clause-28-redux/ That scuttling sound you hear is the scraping of tiny claws as the posh rats take to the lifeboats -- poshies and ladies first! Bastion of liberal middle class smugness, the Guardian has declared for the Whigs, claiming "...they are less tied to reactionary and sectional class interests than either ... http://www.marxist.org.uk/2010/05/02/posh-rats-take-to-the-lifeboats/ As expected, the first two of the three 'historic' party leaders' television 'debates' have be completely apolitical tosh. Instead the Labour, Tory and Liberal Democrat leaders have indulged in a round robin of sound bites, each vying with the other to appear more presidential and to sound more hardcore on ... http://www.marxist.org.uk/2010/04/25/notes-on-what-passes-for-debate/ 'We are all in this together' the leader of the Tory Party assures would-be supporters. In the past year, during the worst crisis of capitalism since the Great Depression and concomitant surge in fascism of the interwar period, the 'collective wealth of Britain's 1,000 richest people rose 30%, the biggest annual ... http://www.marxist.org.uk/2010/04/25/we-are-all-in-this-together/ Socialist Appeal comrades remind us that it is eight years since the defeat of the US-backed attempted coup in Venezuela and republish an article by Ted Grant and Alan Woods (also available here). As they note, 'the tasks outlined at the end of the article remain, mostly, unfulfilled'. Corriente Marxista ... http://www.marxist.org.uk/2010/04/19/lucha-de-clases/ Written by Alan Woods and Ted Grant Sunday, 14 April 2002 Dramatic events are unfolding in Venezuela. On Saturday April 13, less than 36 hours after a group of right-wing businessmen and army generals had assumed control, the coup collapsed in a welter of confusion. Shortly after 10 pm, interim President ... http://www.marxist.org.uk/2010/04/19/revolution-and-counter-revolution-in-venezuela/ An appeal from WPI Jamal Saberi (Jalal Amanzadeh Nouei) was arrested on Thursday 4 March 2010 by the Japanese Immigration Bureau in Tokyo with the intention of deporting him to Iran. Mr. Jamal Saberi is a well known political opponent of the Islamic Republic of Iran and has been politically active for ... http://www.marxist.org.uk/2010/03/11/save-jamal-saberi-from-deportation-to-iran/ 8 March is International Women's Day. In the Yarl's Wood 'Immigration Removal Centre' concentration camp, women are in the fifth week of a hunger strike over arbitrary detention and imprisonment without trial, routine violence and abuse by racist thug 'guards', separation of mothers and children, denial of medical treatment and ... http://www.marxist.org.uk/2010/03/08/international-womens-day-at-yarls-wood/