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Everybody out!
The workers are getting restless. Last year, for the second time in five years, more than a million days were lost to strikes. This year the figure is likely to be higher. Is this a return to the militant Seventies? Plus check out the rest of our May Day special
The new strikers
The defeats of the Eighties mean nothing to today's young activists, who are not afraid to try strike action if it works, says Jeremy Dear, trade union leader
Latin America: the attack on democracy
John Pilger argues that an unreported war is being waged by the US to restore power to the privileged classes at the expense of the poor
Strikes on film
As part of our focus on the labour movement and May Day, Daniel Trilling looks at the way movies have portrayed industrial action
The fire last time
Taken from The New Statesman 22 April 1988
A new kind of protest
In a country where strikes are illegal, a new Chinese labour movement is finding its voice
Only radical change will do
We need massive devolution of power to reverse the centralising excesses of Thatcher, Blair and Brown
Lib-Lab rides again
Labour talks of "fusing" social democracy with liberalism but today's progressives need to discover the two traditions always had strong common roots
Prague, 1948: the February revolution
Taken from The New Statesman20 March 1948
What about the workers?
An unglamorous bill presented shortly to parliament will define the direction of the Brown government - and its approach to social justice.
Fidel Castro
The last revolutionary
Steve Richards
On Tory policy
Science
Religion and Darwin
James Macintyre
Miliband's dilemma
Will Self
On Oscar Wilde
Film review
Bright Star
Books
Paul Auster
Interview
Alain de Botton
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