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Andrea Enisuoh: Why does education fail black youth?

Jan. 1, 2026

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[Socialism Today, No 12, October 1996, p. 33] Recent research on the achievements of ethnic minority pupils, by David Gillborn and Caroline Gipps. HMSO, 1996, £9-95. Reviewed by Andrea Enisuoh. The Office for Standards in Education (OFSTED) have released their review: Recent Research into the Achievements of Ethnic Minority Pupils. Spanning a period of major…

Clare Wilkins: New attacks on abortion

Jan. 1, 2026

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[Socialism Today, No 12, October 1996, p. 30-31] Abortion: Between Freedom and Necessity, by Janet Hadley. Virago, 1990. Reviewed by Clare Wilkins Anti-abortion MPs are planning another attack on the provisions of the 1967 Abortion Act and the present 24-week time limit on abortion. This follows a summer of intense media interest in aspects of…

Christine Thomas: Another Moral Panic

Jan. 1, 2026

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[Socialism Today, No 16, March 1997, p. 9] ‚Working mums damage children’s education‘ screamed the media headlines. ‚Flawed research causes working mums‘ guilt trip‘ would have been more to the point. Based on research from the University of North London, Panorama claimed that the children of full-time working mums are failing exams. At almost the…

Mike Waddington: Truths about Churchill

Dez. 28, 2025

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[Socialism Today, No 3, November 1995, p. 32] Churchill: The End of Glory, by John Charmley. Sceptre, 1995, £9-99. Reviewed by Mike Waddington. This is a truly good read. Although written by a right-wing historian it nevertheless provides a useful antidote to the Vera Lynn school of history and probes some of the less well-publicised…

Sam Baskett: Jack London’s Call of Socialism

Dez. 28, 2025

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[Socialism Today, No 10, July-August 1996, p. 25-28] Sam Baskett looks at the life and work of Jack London, who died 80 years ago this November. Jack London, (1876-1916) was one of the most widely read and highly-paid American writers of his era, at his commercial peak commanding as much as $75,000 per year. His…

Peter Taaffe: Introduction to ‚Marxism opposes Individual Terrorism‘

Dez. 27, 2025

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[Marxism opposes Individual Terrorism, London ²1982, p. 1-8] We are reprinting here three articles on the socialist case against terrorism which are of great relevance today and should be of considerable interest to active members of the labour movement. The first article, “Why Marxists Oppose Individual Terrorism“ by Leon Trotsky, first appeared in Der Kampf…

Peter Taaffe: Marxism opposes Individual Terrorism

Dez. 27, 2025

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[Militant, No. 278, 7 November 1975, reprinted in ‚Marxism opposes Individual Terrorism‘, London ²1982, p. 19-29] Hardly a day now passes without a political assassination, attempted assassination, kidnapping or bombing taking place somewhere in the world. The Herrema kidnapping in Ireland is only the most recent example of what has become almost a world epidemic.…

Andrea Enisuoh, Hugo Pierre, Nasima Patel: What Future for Britain’s Black Population

Dez. 25, 2025

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[Socialism Today, No 19, June 1997, p. 18-21] Darcus Howe describes the mood in the black community after 1 May as one not of exhilaration but of ‚a huge sense of relief that the 18 year siege is over‘. Yet days later the New York-based Human Rights Watch described racially-motivated attacks in Britain as having…

Margaret Creear: An unnatural system

Dez. 25, 2025

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[Militant International Review, No. 51, May-June 1993, p. 19-25] What are the causes of today’s social problems? Margaret Creear examines the ’nature or nurture‘ debate. The murder of Jamie Bulger in Bootle became the occasion for a national offensive by the Tories, and academics linked two them. to put the blame for violence, juvenile crime.…

Christine Thomas: Has there been a ‚Genderquake‘?

Dez. 24, 2025

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[Militant International Review, No 60, February-March 1995, p. 9-13] After centuries of discrimination and oppression, are women on the verge of gaining real equality? Christine Thomas writes. ‚Is the future female?‘ was the question posed in a recent edition of Panorama, which looked at developments in the educational achievements of girls and boys. Girls, it…

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