Socialist Worker News, 30 September

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Socialist Worker News, 30 September

Highlights of the new issue

NO BAILOUT FOR BANKS - SEIZE THEIR PROFITS!
Fight for decent pay and jobs | Secure our pensions | No home repossessions
New Labour’s affair with the super rich
Despite Gordon Brown’s recent criticisms of the system’s ‘excesses’, his government is completely intertwined with big business, argues Simon Basketter
Slumps and struggle
The writings of Leon Trotsky shed light on the complicated relationship between booms, slumps and class struggle, writes John Rees
Gordon Brown betrays Britain’s poor
Millions of children in Britain are being “failed by the system” and abandoned to a life of poverty, according to a new report released this week
Beyond The Jiving: a sympathetic view of Britain’s youth in the 1950s
A new book and exhibition reveal similarities between the lives of young people in the 1950s and today, writes Sian Ruddick
Northern Ireland 1968: Derry’s days of rage
We reprint Eamonn McCann's front page article from Socialist Worker, as a brutal attack on a civil rights march in Derry began the spiral of repression that created "the troubles"
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