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Issue - 2388
Dated - 28 Jan 2014
As Tories gloat over recovery - 'We’ve got to take them on' says Ricky Tomlinson

“If they get away with these cuts they’ll cut again before the next election, and I’ll tell you what—people won’t be able to live,” Ricky Tomlinson told Socialist Worker.

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Eamonn McCann on the anniversary of Bloody Sunday

The Bloody Sunday March for Justice will take place today, Sunday, in Derry. It marks the 42nd anniversary of the murder of 14 protesters by British troops. The march is part of a series of events that includes the publication of a new pamphlet by Eamonn McCann ‘Go on the paras...!’ Bloody Sunday and the continuing search for justice.
02 February 2014
Pete Seeger 1919 - 2014
Obituaries

Pete Seeger 1919 – 2014

Pete Seeger, who has died aged 94, was a giant not just in the world of folk music but of contemporary popular music in general
30 January 2014
Photos of the UCU strike on Tuesday 28 January 2014
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Photos of the UCU strike on Tuesday 28 January 2014

Picket lines around the country during the two-hour strike by university workers
29 January 2014
'We can win this dispute' - university workers show mood for a fight
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‘We can win this dispute’ – university workers show mood for a fight

UCU union members in universities across Britain took part in a second two-hour strike over pay yesterday, Tuesday. It followed a successful two-hour strike on Thursday of last week. The action saw big picket lines and a clear mood among strikers that the union should escalate to harder hitting action.
29 January 2014
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Victory at Islington free school as threat of strike wins union recognition

The workers, at Stem 6 Academy in Islington have forced school bosses to back down and won union recognition after threatening to strike.
29 January 2014
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RMT calls off DLR strikes

The RMT union this week called off planned strikes on the Serco Docklands Light Railway.
28 January 2014
If obesity is rising, blame poverty, profit and stress
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If obesity is rising, blame poverty, profit and stress

The pressures of our sick society make healthy eating harder for ordinary people, explains John Parrington
28 January 2014
Care workers in Glasgow walk out again over bosses’ attacks
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Care workers in Glasgow walk out again over bosses’ attacks

Care workers in Glasgow City Council’s residential homes struck for 48 hours on Monday and Tuesday of this week. The Unison union members came out for the second time in a fortnight to resist pay cuts of up to £1,495 a year. 
28 January 2014
Inside Llewyn Davis: The Coen brothers' have made a masterful elegy for wasted potential
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Inside Llewyn Davis: The Coen brothers’ have made a masterful elegy for wasted potential

The Coen brothers have done it again with new film Inside Llewyn Davis, an understated tragedy set in New York’s 1960s folk scene, writes Dave Sewell
28 January 2014
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Reviews & Culture

1848: Spirited performance captures a year of revolution

Review of the play, 1848
28 January 2014
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News round-up

Former English Defence League leader Tommy Robinson has been jailed for 18 months for fraud. The racist says he will be in solitary for his own safety. 
28 January 2014
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Reviews & Culture

Reviews in brief

Longbourn by Jo Baker | Transgender Dysphoria Blues by Against Me! | Wapping dispute online exhibition
28 January 2014