Socialist Voice - October edition

Socialist Voice from the CPOI is now out and can be downloaded here.

Here’s the contents:

Fine Gael firmly in the driving seat [EMC]
Latvia and Lithuania: a demographic disaster [COM]
Privatisation: robbing the people’s wealth [EMC]
Why Keynesianism will not deliver the goods [NC]
Understanding the crisis and putting the system on trial [NL]
Turning a human right into a commodity
Is state censorship of the media returning? [BH]
Essay competition on the international brigades
The Shankill and the Falls fight together! [TR]
Labour helps Obama to subvert Venezuela [TMS]
Obama at the United Nations [BG]
George Morrison honoured by the Progressive Film Club [MNM]

From the first article:

The central strategy of this government, in alliance with the EU and IMF, has been repayment of the debt and concentrating all government effort and resources to this end.

But the wheels are now coming off the wagon. Economic growth is far off its target as the global recession deepens. Cuts in public spending cannot cover the massive shortfall. There is a limit to the extent to which they can plunder the wage packets of workers and pensions and remove medical support for the sick.

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