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A report about working life in refuse collection, recycling and street cleaning department of Hackney Council, including conflicts and co-operation in the workforce.
Read online at https://workersliberty.org/node/4393 Up on the Malvolian heights Submitted by AWL on 15 July, 2005 - 6:19 By Sean Matgamna I find it difficult to accept that Jim Higgins intends his piece as a serious contribution to the discussion. He merely regurgitates and reformulates much that he said earlier, and which I refuted and corrected earlier - on Deir Yassin, for example. Higgins, I fear, confuses track-covering repetition with serious argument, just as he confuses oblique evasiveness with wit, and elephantine orotundity with a praiseworthy style. Up on the oxyge...
Stan Newens, 1930-2021 Author: Martin Thomas Stan Newens died on 2 March, at the age of 91. He got a jaundiced obituary in the Guardian, warmer ones elsewhere, and a tribute from Jeremy Corbyn which airbrushed out Newens' revolutionary Marxist activity in his 20s. In old age Newens wrote an autobiography, which I have not read, but is reviewed here by Ian Birchall. In February 1995 Newens gave an account, in Workers' Liberty magazine, vol.1 no.18, of his earlier political days and what he then made of them. I joined the Socialist Review Group [forerunner of today's SWP] in 1952 and drifted o...