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Socialist Resistance magazine, issue 59  |  printed page 34

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9 Trotsky's writings on the permanent revolution are the theoretical mainspring of proletarian revolutionary strategy and are an obligatory study for all who aspire to lead the working class in the struggle for socialism, whether in the capitalist countries of the West or in the backward colonial countries. £9 €10 $15 10 The credit crunch of 2008 produced an international recession in 2009. In Socialists and the Capitalist Recession, Claudio Katz and Michel Husson, fellows of the International Institute for Research and Education, and SSP activist Raphie de Santos, describe the present crisis, construct a socialist analysis of its causes, and propose socialist solutions. £6 €7 $10 11 The account of his life and struggle by a black activist in South Africa. It records the founding and growth of the revolutionary left organisations, and includes a stern, reasoned critique of the ANC and SACP. Nikani describes his exile, a clandestine mission back into South Africa, his escape to and imprisonment in Swaziland, and his final exile to Sweden, where he died in 1999 £10 €11 $17 12 In this personal and political account of organising car workers, Alan Thornett's first volume of biography describes his work in the militant Cowley Assembly Plant from 1959 to 1974, a period of outstanding struggle. In 1963 Alan was elected shop steward for the plant's transport drivers and in 1967, as a member of the Trotskyist SLL, as full-time deputy TGWU convenor in 1967. £10 €11 $17

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MARCH AND RALLY SATURDAY 10 APRIL 2010

MARCH: 12 NOON TRAFALGAR SQUARE

SPEAKERS, MUSIC AND

ENTERTAINMENT Whoever wins the next general election will be looking at the welfare state and public services as a way of cutting public expenditure. This demonstration must therefore send a clear message to all the political parties that the majority of people do not want to see On 10 April 2010 we will have a unique chance - just weeks before an expected general election - to make our voices heard. Staying at home and thinking it's someone else's job

to speak out for the welfare state and public services won't be enough. MAKE SURE YOU ARE THERE!

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