<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" standalone="yes"?><oembed><version><![CDATA[1.0]]></version><provider_name><![CDATA[the commune]]></provider_name><provider_url><![CDATA[https://thecommune.wordpress.com]]></provider_url><author_name><![CDATA[internationalcommunist]]></author_name><author_url><![CDATA[https://thecommune.wordpress.com/author/internationalcommunist/]]></author_url><title><![CDATA[issue 8 of the&nbsp;commune]]></title><type><![CDATA[link]]></type><html><![CDATA[<p style="text-align:left;margin:1em 0;">The October issue of our monthly paper <em>The Commune</em> is now available. Click the image below to see the PDF, or see articles as they are posted online in the list below.</p>
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<a href="https://thecommune.wordpress.com/2009/10/11/we%e2%80%99re-not-%e2%80%98all-in-it-together%e2%80%99-no-to-austerity-britain/"> we&#8217;re not &#8216;all in it together&#8217;</a> &#8211; editorial of <em>The Commune</em></p>
<p><a href="https://thecommune.wordpress.com/2009/10/12/update-on-the-activities-of-the-commune-around-britain/">update on the activities of our network</a></p>
<p><a href="https://thecommune.wordpress.com/2009/09/30/tuc-another-wasted-opportunity/">tuc congress: an opportunity wasted?</a> &#8211; by Gregor Gall</p>
<p><a href="https://thecommune.wordpress.com/2009/10/07/fragile-livelihoods-at-cowley-mini-factory/">fragile livelihoods at cowley mini factory</a> &#8211; by  Brian Rylance</p>
<p><a href="https://thecommune.wordpress.com/2009/10/08/what-is-the-london-postal-strike-really-about/">what is the london postal strike really about?</a> &#8211; interview of CWU reps by Sheila Cohen</p>
<p><a href="https://thecommune.wordpress.com/2009/10/06/gordon-browns-workhouses-for-single-mothers/">gordon brown&#8217;s workhouses for single mothers</a> &#8211; by Zoe Smith</p>
<p><a href="https://thecommune.wordpress.com/2009/10/10/new-tactics-versus-rubbish-bosses/">&#8216;new&#8217; tactics versus rubbish bosses</a> &#8211; by Adam Ford</p>
<p><a href="https://thecommune.wordpress.com/2009/10/08/lessons-of-the-tower-hamlets-esol-strike/">lessons of the tower hamlets esol strike</a> &#8211; interview with two members of teaching staff</p>
<p><a href="https://thecommune.wordpress.com/2009/10/11/how-we-fought-to-defend-education-in-tamworth/">how we fought education cuts in tamworth</a> &#8211; by Rob Marsden</p>
<p><a href="https://thecommune.wordpress.com/2009/09/18/on-the-necessity-of-pluralist-communism/">on the necessity of pluralist communism</a> &#8211; by Nathan Coombs</p>
<p><a href="https://thecommune.wordpress.com/2009/10/04/honduras-coup-a-letter-from-tegucigalpa/">a letter from tegucigalpa: resisting the honduran coup</a> &#8211; by a member of Socialismo o Barbarie</p>
<p><a href="https://thecommune.wordpress.com/2009/09/27/political-report-from-the-land-of-the-haggis-eating-surrender-monkeys/">political report from the land of the haggis-eating surrender monkeys</a> &#8211; by Allan Armstrong</p>
<p><a href="https://thecommune.wordpress.com/2009/10/08/electoral-parties-lets-not-put-old-wine-in-new-bottles/">electoral parties: let&#8217;s not put old wine in new bottles</a> &#8211; by David Broder</p>
<p><a href="https://thecommune.wordpress.com/2009/10/07/a-beginners-guide-to-cuts/">a beginners&#8217; guide to cuts</a> &#8211; by Robert Kirby</p>
<p><a href="https://thecommune.wordpress.com/1">platform of our communist network</a></p>
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