Socialist Worker reports on industrial actions by London’s bus drivers, Sheffield journalists and the CE Electric workers…

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Via Mark Curtis…
Percy Cradock, Foreign and Commonwealth Office planning staff, to Sir Denis Greenhill, Permanent Under-Secretary, FCO, 24 July 1970
‘We start from the fact that our economic interests in the Arab world greatly outweigh those in Israel. It would be reasonable to expect that our policy should reflect this fact. It does not do so [...]

This is really cool! The Bradford-based National Media Museum, which is devoted to film, photography, TV, radio and the web, is posting on flickr selections of thematically grouped photographs from its collections…

Socialist Worker reports…

Short film, by Comrade Ady, covering the protests organized by Stop the War Coalition over the last two years - from the 100,000 strong protest over Blair’s support for Israel’s war on Lebanon to the protest against the visit of George W Bush in June 2008…

Chris Harman, Revolution in the 21st Century, London: Bookmarks, 2007. Pages 57-59:
It is often argued workers cannot fight back as they once did because globalization of the world economy allows firms to shit down operations and re-open somewhere else. Globalization certainly means finance houses and speculators can move massive amounts of money from one country [...]

Al-Jazeera has posted online a program on the Real Estate Tax Collectors’ strike, including interviews with Kamal Abu Eita and Abdel Qader Nada… The second part of the program reviews the struggle of the cleaning workers in London…

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Lenin is twittering from his tomb…