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Issue - 2097
Dated - 19 Apr 2008
Make Gordon Brown pay

The next fortnight offers two golden opportunities to shape the future of politics in Britain.

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Tim: Sell the house
Cartoons

Tim: Sell the house

15 April 2008
Enoch Powell and racism
Features

Enoch Powell and racism

This Sunday sees the 40th anniversary of Enoch Powell’s "Rivers of Blood" speech – the nastiest and most calculated piece of racism ever to be heard from the lips of a senior politician in postwar Britain.
15 April 2008
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Reviews & Culture

Charlie Wilson’s War

In December 1979 the Russian army invaded Afghanistan.
15 April 2008
The Glass Menagerie
Reviews & Culture

The Glass Menagerie

The Glass Menagerie centres around a poor family living in 1930s St Louis.
15 April 2008
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Reviews & Culture

Fast Labour

Fast Labour tells the story of Victor, a Ukrainian asylum seeker who has fled to Britain.
15 April 2008
Bangladesh 1971: viewing war and resistance from below
Reviews & Culture

Bangladesh 1971: viewing war and resistance from below

The Bangladesh war of independence against Pakistan in 1971 was a bloody conflict that led to the deaths of hundreds of thousands.
15 April 2008
Extraordinary Rendition: individual tragedy shows up destructive policies
Reviews & Culture

Extraordinary Rendition: individual tragedy shows up destructive policies

Extraordinary Rendition is the story of Zaafir, a politics lecturer who is abducted on the streets of London, flown out of the country, interrogated at one of the CIA’s secret "Black Sites", tortured, and eventually dumped back in this country. He then has to try and pick up the pieces of his life.
15 April 2008
The Making of a London Suburb: Capital Comes To Penge
Features

The Making of a London Suburb: Capital Comes To Penge

‘Around 1550, England was a medium-ranking European state and London an average-sized European capital city of about 75,000 people.
15 April 2008
All aboard for 24 April strikes and protests
Features

All aboard for 24 April strikes and protests

Millions of workers are struggling to survive in Gordon Brown’s Britain. But Thursday 24 April is the day we can start to fight back. Hundreds of thousands of teachers, lecturers, civil service workers, council workers in Birmingham and other groups of workers will all be ­walking out on that day over pay.
15 April 2008
Unions must resist all the attacks we face
Features

Unions must resist all the attacks we face

‘The unions in Birmingham council have called for a strike of their 20,000 members on Wednesday and Thursday of next week against their single status pay settlement.
15 April 2008
Lecturers will be joining the fightback
Features

Lecturers will be joining the fightback

‘The attacks on pay and on adult education are being led by the government. These are the issues that have led lecturers in further education colleges to vote for strike action.
15 April 2008
Post workers will support your strike
Features

Post workers will support your strike

‘It is crucial that all workers back those striking on 24 April. I will be speaking at a strike rally in Oxford on that day as the branch secretary of the local CWU postal workers’ union.
15 April 2008