Issue 173 of Socialist Appeal is out now. This months journal features:

• Editorial: Our enemy – the capitalist state.
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• Women workers: Forty years on and still fighting for equal pay.
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• Education: Reject increases in top up fees.
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• Students: NUS – don’t disaffiliate.
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• Factory occupations: Occupy!
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• Economy: Human nature, capitalism and the global crisis.
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• Perspectives: Where is Britain going?
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• Our history: The ballot and the miners’ strike.
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• The Thatcher offensive.
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• Climate change and capitalism: Bangladesh under water?
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• International: US news .
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• Europe: Onslaught on the working class.
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• Trade unions: Exploitation in TV industry worse than ever.
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• Mitie cleaners fight on
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• Blacklist heroes.