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September 2014

Tony Cliff & Donny Gluckstein's out of print book Marxism and Trade Union Struggle: The General Strike of 1926 is now available on the Marxist Internet Archive. Written in 1986 it remains one of the clearest analyses of the trade union bureaucracy.

http://www.marxists.org/archive/cliff/works/1986/tradeunion/index.htm

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September 2014

An excellent article about how socialists should understand Hamas, the key resistance force in Gaza, can be found on the English section of the Revolutionary Socialists of Egypt's website.

http://global.revsoc.me/2014/07/towards-a-revolutionary-perspective-on-hamas/

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September 2014

Jenny Diski takes a rather scathing look at the popular TV series Orange Is the New Black, set in a US prison, in the London Review of Books

http://www.lrb.co.uk/2014/08/18/jenny-diski/bingeing

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September 2014

A fascinating article on the platform.org.uk website looks at the first English translation of the Qu'ran in 1649 and how it was linked to the execution of Charles 1 by Protestant radicals in the English Revolution

http://www.the-platform.org.uk/2014/08/26/eastern-texts-meet-western-quills-the-...

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July / August 2014

Lebanese journalist Rania Abuzaid gives a detailed account of the rise of Isis in Syria and Iraq and the divisions inside Al-Qaeda at Politico Magazine.

http://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2014/06/al-qaeda-iraq-syria-108214.html#....

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July / August 2014

You can watch Battleship Potemkin and other Sergei Eisenstein films free at the Open Culture website.

http://www.openculture.com/2012/02/begin_your_cinematic_self-education_with_free...

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July / August 2014

There is an excellent article about Mahienour el-Massry, the jailed Egyptian revolutionary socialist on the Open Democracy website.

http://www.opendemocracy.net/arab-awakening/giuseppe-acconcia/mahienour-elmassry...

Issue (month):

July / August 2014

Andy Shallice has a very useful piece on the Institute of Race Relations website about new restrictions to the rights of EU migrants, particularly the Roma.

http://www.irr.org.uk/news/freedom-to-buy-of-course-freedom-to-move-not-if-youre...

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June 2014

Perry Anderson's magisterial survey of Europe's discontents through the prism of Italy is available on the London Review of Books website.

http://www.lrb.co.uk/v36/n10/perry-anderson/the-italian-disaster

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June 2014

A video of a recent talk by Alex Callinicos on "How deep is the crisis of the European Union?" given at an event organised by the Austrian socialist group Linkswende to Youtube.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J5IhRX6AajA

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