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Greek hospital under workers’ control

Is this perhaps the most significant piece of news coming out of Greece in the last few days? greekleftreview.wordpress.com Greek hospital now under workers’ control Posted: February 6, 2012  Submitted for publication by working class self organisation at libcom.org on Feb 5 2012 19:20 Health workers … Continue reading

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Our Man in Havana

Our Man in Havana « LRB blog private | 10 February 2012 | www.lrb.co.uk Alan Gross, a 62-year-old US citizen, has been imprisoned in Cuba since December 2009. He fell foul of the authorities while working for USAID, liaising with Cuba’s small Jewish community. … Continue reading

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Nailing Tory Lies

Ed Miliband has come out fighting in today’s Times arguing that “a great deceit designed to damage Labour has led to profoundly misguided and dangerous economic decisions”. The truth is uncomfortable for the Government. Ed Miliband writes (£): “What is … Continue reading

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Politics on the brain

Politics on the brain Conservatives are dinosaurs. That, at least, was the implication of a story on Radio 4 the other morning. Guest editor Colin Firth (himself a disenchanted Lib Dem, though Mr Darcy was undoubtedly a Tory) had asked … Continue reading

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