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Socialism Today 148 - May 2011

Socialism Today 148 - May 2011

Libya: the no-fly zone and the left

Imperialist powers have implemented a no-fly zone over Libya to protect their own strategic and economic interests and to restore their damaged prestige. Incredibly, some on the Marxist left support this military intervention. PETER TAAFFE writes.


UK Uncut and the anti-cuts UK movement

Half-a-million participated in the TUC demonstration against the cutbacks on 26 March, a clear indication of the potential power of Britain’s organised working class. Numerous other protest movements have also emerged. UK Uncut, for example, mobilises a radicalised layer exposing big-business tax evasion. Some commentators, however, claim that this is a ‘new model’, in opposition to coordinated strike action and democratic mass campaigns. HANNAH SELL explains that this view poses a danger to the struggle to defeat the attacks of this right-wing government.


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German elections
Political volatility sees Greens rise

Iceland referendum
For the second time, No!

Greece
Literally not paying for the crisis

Nuclear power
No room for safety complacency

H-block hunger strikes
On the 30th anniversary of Bobby Sands' death we reprint articles from Militant

Inside Job
A documentary demolishing finance capital

Route Irish
Ken Loach's latest film

Shooting down social democracy
New biographies of Olof Palme

Picking up the pieces
Bradley Chambers looks at social work in Britain today

Cover cartoon: Suzanne Muna www.squashdonkey.co.uk