In your area there may well be a longstanding Socialist Worker reader who has a video of the marvellous film about the Polish/German revolutionary Rosa Luxemburg. If so, borrow it. Among other outstanding scenes is one where Rosa Luxemburg's friends implore her to leave Berlin as the forerunners of the Nazi stormtroopers hunt her down.
The Russian Revolution began in February 1917 with an uprising that brought down the hated Tsar. By October a new government was founded led by the Bolsheviks. What happened?
I AM asking all socialists and freethinkers to contribute to a libel appeal on behalf of the socialist bookshop Bookmarks. Bookmarks was sued by Quintin Hoare and Branca Magas, well known figures on the British left. They complained about an article written in 1993 and published in 1999 in the book The Balkans, Nationalism and Imperialism.
THE POSTAL workers' strike was a brilliant success and it shocked management. They are bitterly disappointed that last week's strike was such a success. Bosses had tried their usual mix of intimidation and bribery to get workers to break ranks. There were threats against workers, especially young, new and limited-contract staff, that their jobs could be at risk.
WINSTON Silcott's 17 years of unjust, politically motivated incarceration is finally at an end. The police and right wing media's campaign against him is not. Their lies and smears kept an innocent man in jail for nearly two decades. Now they are out to persecute him and his family further by continuing to link him to a crime which an appeal court found him innocent of.
READERS IN Ealing, West London, were ready for Thursday's council workers' and postal workers' strikes.
THE OUTRAGE over George Bush's state visit to Britain in five weeks time is snowballing as more people find out about it. "It's not just that people are angry-they want to do something about it," says Robin Beste from the Stop the War Coalition in Muswell Hill, north London.
"LONG HOURS and stress-they're killers, aren't they?"
'A NORMAL week is hard to describe. My day can start at 4.30am, or at mid morning or mid afternoon. A shift can run to 11 and a half hours or six and a half hours. In fact it takes 23 weeks before you get back to the start of the rota system!
THE EUROPEAN Working Time Directive was introduced in 1998.
'GREAT BRITAIN has seen a foolish display for three days. London's genteel West End looked like a battlefield. Near Buckingham Palace squads of riot police grappled with leather-jacketed toughs.
The Sun's owner, Rupert Murdoch, is notorious for, among other things, smashing the print unions at his Wapping headquarters in London in the 1980s. So you may be surprised to learn that the Sun's origins can be traced back to a bulletin produced to support a London printers' strike.
