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Public services cuts
more work no pay – an editorial on new plans to make the unemployed work for free
PFI disasters and council hot air – Dave Spencer on Coventry’s failed incinerator plan
assetco fiddle as london burns – Joe Thorne on developments in the London firefighters’ strike
no cuts, better services – Bob Goupillot on the anti-cuts demos in Edinburgh
the crumbling walls of council housing – David Huckerby explains the restructuring of council housing
International
what’s wrong with kansas – Sharon Borthwick looks at the USA’s Tea Party right-wing revival
crisis and resistance in spain – Millie Wild reports from Seville on the recent general strike
state repression in france’s pensions struggle – Nicolas Dessaux on state attacks on the social movement to defend pensions
stop the stoning of sakineh – report on the fight for the release of Sakineh Mohammadi Ashtiani, an Iranian woman condemned to death by stoning for ‘adultery’
Workplace
bar humbug: the new shape of work – Pete Wright went through the mill of precarious bar work
precarious work and solidarity – Tawanda Nyabango reports on the Cleaners’ Defence Committee
revitalising NSSN – Keir Snow writes on a new syndicalist initiative
Education and students
what resistance to education cuts – Mark Harrison attended the Education Activist Network conference
why are we still protesting this crap? – Bahar Mustafa writes on the Oxford feminist scene’s debates over a lap-dancing club
Reviews
rimbaud and the paris commune – Sean Bonney was not impressed by the Marx Memorial Library’s talk on Arthur Rimbaud
badiou, the helmsman and communism from below – Sharon Borthwick reviews The Communist Hypothesis
permanent revolution in the andes? – David Broder reviews Bolivia’s Radical Tradition
a strike made in hollywood – Sheila Cohen reviews Made in Dagenham
Our network
I am looking for a group discussing communism — or a new ersion of communism — from the approach of evolutionary biology. If you can introduce me to anyone who might be sypathetic to this apporach I would be mst grateful.
Keith Hudson
Saltford, Somerset
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