The government portrays public sector workers as a privileged group who enjoy better wages and working conditions than those in the private sector. They are lying.
Kamal Abu Aita, the president of the Egyptian tax collectors’ union (above), brought solidarity to the picket line at Euston Tower in central London.
More than 100,000 people joined protests, rallies and stunts across Britain on 30 June.
Aids continues to spread across the world. There were estimated to be 33.3 million people living with HIV/Aids in 2009—mostly in the Global South.
For the first time in decades there is the prospect of a general strike in Britain. Hundreds of thousands of workers are striking this week, and there are serious plans for an even bigger strike in the autumn.
As the Russian revolutionary Vladimir Lenin said, "There are decades when nothing happens; and there are weeks when decades happen."
Tony Cliff was one of the most remarkable individuals on the British left in the later 20th century. He spent his life in the struggle, from his early days as a Jewish revolutionary in occupied Palestine to when he came to Britain and founded the group that became the Socialist Workers Party.
Shaun Doherty, a young teacher who had recently joined the International Socialists, was in Liverpool in 1972 when he first heard Tony Cliff speak.
Almost all of Greece’s public sector workforce took part in an enormous general strike which rocked the country’s government last Wednesday.
‘It looked like a war zone’ Jess Hurd, in Athens
There was an initial panic that HIV/Aids would cause a pandemic on the scale of the 14th century Black Death.
