Saturday October 8 Birmingham Conference Against City Academies. Organised by Birmingham NUT and Islington Campaign Against Academies. For advance registration & more information, contact Birmingham Association NUT:BANUT office, Park Hill primary school, Alcester Road, Birmingham. Tel 0121442 2031 Email [email protected] www.banut.net. It is possible to register on the day. Wednesday October 12 Tower Hamlets and Jenin Twinning Campaign launch with George Galloway MP, Kama Nabulsi, Harry Cohen MP (invited), Caroline Lucas (Green MEP, invited), Oliur Rahman (Respect councillor) For more info e-mail [email protected]. Jagonari Centre, 183-185 Whitechapel Rd. 7pm London Socialist Resistance Forum: German elections and If you like what you've read or you want to find out more about Socialist Resistance, get in touch with us by ringing 020 8800 7460, or email [email protected] EDITORS: Terry Conway, John Lister, Liam MacUaid. EDITORIAL BOARD : Tami Peterson, Kathy Lowe, Piers Mostyn, Karen O'Toole., DESIGN: John Lister SPONSORED BY: International Socialist Group, Socialist Solidarity Network and individuals including Patrick Baker, Andrew Burgin, Brenda and Brian Bushell, Mathew Caygill, Duncan Chapple, Julian Coppens, Frances Curran, Norma Dowd, Andy Gibbons, Jamie Gough, Catriona Grant, Marcus Greville, Patrick Hall, Rick Hatcher, Wayne Holmes, Nick Lidgett, Frank McMahon, Alan McCoombes, Martin Milne, Piers Mostyn, Liz Peretz, Sue Phillips, Surykant Raithatha, Norman Traub, Rick Simon, Colin Smith, Murray Smith, Sarah Taversham, Doug Thorpe, Tony Traub, Tessa van Gelderen, Bill Walton, Roger Welch. Published by SOCIALIST RESISTANCE, PO Box 1109, London N4 2UU. Printed by Web Press International, London E15. the left party - a blow to neo-liberalism with Manuel Kellner of the Left Party. 7.30pm Indian YMCA, Fitzroy Square, London W1 (Warren St tube). Thursday Oct 13 Birmingham Socialist Resistance Forum, Germany : Breakthrough for the Left, with Manuel Kellner. Bennett's Bar, Bennett's Hill, Birmingham City Centre 7.30pm Tuesday October 18 Birmingham Socialist Resistance Forum Venezuela - Is Socialism Possible? with Charley Allan (Hands off Venezuela Campaign). Bennett's Bar, Bennett's Hill, Birmingham City Centre Wednesday October 19 Women organising against the war in Colombia with Jackeline Rojas, Organizacion Femenina Popular. Union Tavern, 52 Lloyd Baker St, London EC1 (tubes Kings Cross, Farringdon) 7pm TOWER HAMLETS Keep Our NHS Public, meeting with Dr Anna Livingstone (local GP) John Lister (London Health Emergency, and Jim Fagan (UNISON), 7.00pm Oxford House Derbyshire St EC2 Wednesday November 9: Socialist Resistance Forum: Why the NHS market reforms are bad for your health with John Lister. 7.30pm Indian YMCA, Fitzroy Square, London W1 (Warren St tube). Saturday-Sunday November 19-20 Respect annual conference. Camden Centre, Euston Road, London NW1 (nearest tube: Kings Cross). Sat December 3 Campaign Against Climate Change demonstration Assemble 12 noon, Lincoln's Inn Fields For more info go to www.campaigncc.org. 0207 5490395 Membership Standing Order form YOUR BANK DETAILS: Bank Name Address Your account details: Sort Code Account Name Account Number Please pay the sum of (write in words and numbers) And on the same date every month thereabo, On the day of unless cancelled or amended by me in writing. To the account of now it's war over water! Almost unnoticed, as one form of struggle, in the shape of the republican armed campaign came to an end, the British administration announced a new, no-holds-barred offensive against Irish workers.
The announcement came in the form of a 'State of the union' address by Secretary of state Hain. On September 21, following a speech announcing extra funds to placate Loyalist sectarians who were staging riots, he announced that the North of Ireland was costing too much and that public services were too inefficient and employed too many people.
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The fightback is proceeding slowly and with difficultly. A number of local committees have been set up and talks are planned to try and unify a number of different campaigns. The problem is that none of the existing political and trade union organisations have any history of militant opposition to economic oppression, and the political opposition, around republicanism, has collapsed. As has been the case throughout the history of the North, the sectarianism engendered by the state will prove a major obstacle to uniting workJohn McAnulty, Belfast Co-operative Bank, 78-80 Cheapside London EC3V Please return to RESISTANCE
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