2010
30 December 2010 · 1 comment
Rio: Crime, corruption and mega-events
'The system is fucked'. That is the conclusion reached at the end of the film that has become in the last few weeks Brazil's most succesful production of all time. 'Tropa da Elite 2' is the …
29 December 2010 · 15 comments
A European strategy for the left
The global effects of the crisis have been made even worse by what is happening in Europe. For thirty years the contradictions of capitalism have been overcome with the help of an enormous a…
28 December 2010 · 2 comments
With the students against the far right
Alf Filer draws some conclusions from the far right’s announcement that it plans to attack student demonstrations. “The next time the students want to protest in our capital, the English Def…
28 December 2010 · · 17 comments
Why we had to leave Respect
In this article for the next issue of our magazine Bob Whitehead explains Socialist Resistance’s decision to leave Respect. It was an amicable split; a polite divorce that permitted continui…
27 December 2010 · 5 comments
Climate Jobs and the Limits of Growth
One million climate jobs: solving the economic and environmental crises: a report by the Campaign Against Climate Change Trade Union Group reviewed by Özlem Onaran The Campaign Against Clima…
24 December 2010 · 2 comments
The new youth radicalisation
Unite’s Len McCluskey and other union leaders have rightly hailed the student protests for kick starting a mass movement against the cuts. But what is the dynamic behind the student revolt? …
24 December 2010 · 4 comments
SSP statement on Sheridan conviction for perjury
Tommy Sheridan’s conviction today for perjury was inevitable. Six years ago, as leader of the Scottish Socialist Party , he proposed to sue a tabloid newspaper over stories he knew to be tru…
22 December 2010 ·
Of Gods and Men–a review
Of Gods and Men ( Des hommes et des dieux ) is an uncompromisingly Catholic film describing the protracted individual Gethsemanes of a group of Trappist monks who were murdered in Algeria in…
14 December 2010
NSSN leaders need support to urge Socialist Party to pull back
“ We are drawing attention to the disastrous outcome of the Steering Committee of the National Shop Stewards’ Network (NSSN) meeting on Saturday 4th December. The majority in the meeting, wh…
10 December 2010 · 4 comments
Student protests: shaken government relies on vicious policing and media spin
“Attacks on police officers and property show that some of the protesters have no respect for London or its citizens,” so said Tory Home Secretary Theresa May, just hours after proving she h…
10 December 2010
Women's Liberation & Socialist Revolution
Women's Liberation & Socialist Revolution from Socialist Resistance is co-published with the IIRE's Notebooks for Study and Research. Its subtitle, Documents of the Fourth International, pla…
9 December 2010 · 2 comments
GBC legal guidance as 43 protesters taken to hospital
The Green & Black Cross is circulating guidance to protestors and parents affected by the protests in Westminster this evening. Read the advice for parents if your son or daughter is arreste…
9 December 2010 · 20 comments
Neither Washington nor the Party State: The Debate around Liu Xiaobo Winning the Nobel Peace Prize
It is interesting to read the debate among Chinese on Liu Xiaobo being awarded the Nobel Peace Prize. Although most liberals welcome this as encouragement for fighting for democracy in China…
9 December 2010
Very well done Wikileaks
The Wikileaks organisation should be congratulated for their latest brilliant exposés of establishment politicians. We should have more examples of this with British secret documents. What t…
8 December 2010 · 1 comment
Sri Lankan socialist's British visit ends with violent attack at airport
The BBC has reported how , after a successful visit to Britain, during which he told the truth about the Sri Lankan government's genocide against the Tamil people, supporters of Vickramabahu…
8 December 2010 · 2 comments
SR greets Australian congress: "Help the movement build self-confidence"
Socialist Resistance joins with our comrades in the Fourth International in greeting the second congress of the Revolutionary Socialist Party. Over the past year and a half, we have seen an …
7 December 2010 · 3 comments
Pierre Frank's history of the Fourth International, in a new expanded edition
In this book published jointly with the IIRE, Pierre Frank and Daniel Bensaid explain how the Fourth International, founded in 1938 by Revolutionary Marxist militants, nuclei, currents and o…
7 December 2010 · 2 comments
Beanz Meanz Cutz: Heinz workers vote for strike action
Heinz workers at its Wigan factory have voted 9 to 1 to strike over pay. Messages of support and suggestions of solidarity can be sent to the workforce by phoning the UNITE office at the fac…
3 December 2010 · 3 comments
SR: Unite the fightback to divide and defeat the ConDem cuts
Socialist Resistance is adding its voice to those opposing the Socialist Party’s move to divide the anti-cuts movement. The SP is calling for the National Shop Stewards Network to become an …
3 December 2010 · 1 comment
Coalition of Resistance calls for unity and agrees policy conference
The Coalition of Resistance adopted the declaration below at its founding conference in November 2010. It explains that "CoR will encourage all anti-cuts organisations to work together with …
2 December 2010 · 2 comments
Blair’s children bite back
I got the text while I was at work. But my phone was off and I did not read it till 4.30 that afternoon. By then my 17 year old daughter, S, had been “kettled” for over three hours. She was …
2 December 2010 · 6 comments
Students are revolting: education cuts and resistance
Students are revolting! And quite right too. From the 52,000 strong demo in Westminster on Nov. 10th (which went via the Millbank Tory Party HQ- not your average day at the office!) to disci…
1 December 2010 · 1 comment
The politics of class hatred as an approach to the economic crisis
Britain has its first coalition government seen for 75 years. It was formed in June, after an inconclusive election, by an agreement between the "Tory" or Conservative Party (main party of B…
1 December 2010 · 1 comment
Oppose war criminal's speech at Oxford Union
As President Rajapakse poises to speak at the Oxford Union in an effort to 'normalise' his relations with the West, it is great opportunity for us to highlight the truth of his Regime's War …
28 November 2010 · 2 comments
What's the difference between Ireland and the UK? Two years
What’s the difference between Ireland and the UK? Probably about two years! When Ireland’s property and credit bubble burst the Irish government poured tens of billions of Euros into the ban…
24 November 2010
Open Letter to David Aaronovitch: Workers will distinguish friends from foes
"It isn’t a good sign for a British political movement when its early signatories include a Norman Traub of Socialist Resistance" . Thus David "Bomber" Aaronovitch opened his article in the …
23 November 2010
No2EU’s Bob Crow calls for solidarity with Irish and Portuguese workers
The NO2EU–Yes to Democracy campaign today pledged full support for Irish and Portuguese workers today as they fight back against European Union-led attempts to seize control of their economi…
23 November 2010 · 4 comments
Ireland's Credit Crunch
The crisis of the Irish economy coincides with this title from Resistance Books: Ireland's Credit Crunch. Written by three leading members of the Fourth International in Ireland the book out…
22 November 2010 ·
Good times in Berlin
The first NSK Citizen’s Congress took place in Berlin 21-23 October writes Ian Parker . This is not the place to rehearse again the already well-known trajectory of Neue Slowenische Kunst in…
22 November 2010 · 3 comments
Unite: Video message from Jerry Hicks
The results are in for the General Secretary election of Unite, Britain's biggest union. In a pitifully low turnout of 15.8%, Len McCluskey received 42% and Jerry Hicks was second with 22%. …
20 November 2010 · 5 comments
"We wish Respect well" say resigning leaders
Five members of the Respect Party, who were members of its ruling National Council until this week, have resigned in protest at the party's decision to organise in Scotland. Alan Thornett, T…
16 November 2010 · 9 comments
Still available -- "Respect: Documents of the crisis"
Respect as it was originally constructed - as an alliance primarily between the Socialist Workers Party (SWP) and George Galloway - is long dead. Respect stood on the gains of the anti-globa…
16 November 2010 · 1 comment
Join the May Day 2011 solidarity brigade to Venezuela!
The Australia-Venezuela Solidarity Network invites you to observe first-hand the inspiring Bolivarian revolution in Venezuela. The sweeping social changes being carried out by Venezuela’s “p…
15 November 2010 · 1 comment
Students–this is what democracy looks like
Download the new Socialist Resistance student leaflet here . Use it at your college, meetings and demonstrations.
15 November 2010 · 1 comment
Social entrepreneurship - the future of capitalism?
What does the audience watching this talk learn about why the majority of the people of Malawi are poor? They certainly seem to enjoy it, which must be a relief as they have paid thousands o…
14 November 2010 · 1 comment
Tirupur is booming.Then why have 400 of its residents committed suicide this year?
The knitwear capital of India is getting suicidal by the day. More than 400 people in the booming town of Tirupur and other parts of the district in Tamil Nadu have taken their lives in the …
14 November 2010 · 1 comment
Building Unity Against Fascism: Classic Marxist Writings
"Building Unity Against Fascism: Classic Marxist Writings" gathers together some of the earliest writings on Italian fascism, from the early 1920s, with Trotsky's famous work on the rise of …
13 November 2010 · 11 comments
Why we are against Respect organizing in Scotland
After a week in which George Galloway said he was under pressure to stand in next year's elections for the Scottish Parliament, Respect's annual conference on November 13 voted, 59 to 15, to…
11 November 2010 · 4 comments
Millbank: Sign the statement of solidarity with students arrested
Wednesday’s national NUS/UCU 50,000-strong national demonstration was a magnificent show of strength against the Con-Dems’ savage attacks on education. The Tories want to make swingeing cuts…
9 November 2010 · 1 comment
Download Socialist Resistance Education demo leaflet
You can download the Socialist Resistance education demo leaflet here . Print it off and use it.
5 November 2010 · 6 comments
Myths about UK Government Debt and the £1.1 trillion Crisis We Face
UK debt rose dramatically at two times under modern capitalism – to fund the world wars and the rebuilding of the economy after the war. The debt built up during the Second World War and in …
29 October 2010 · 5 comments
The Con Dems’ politics of pure class hatred
This is the editorial from the November / December issue of Socialist Resistance which will be available soon. The spending review George Osborne has presented is the biggest package of cuts…
25 October 2010 · 1 comment
Register now for Coalition of Resistance Conference
The Coalition of Resistance is having its first National Organising Conference on Saturday November 27 in the Camden Centre Bidborough St, London WC1 from 10am-5pm. Details of speakers and w…
23 October 2010 · · 1 comment
Higher education at a turning point
One of the deepest of the onslaughts unleashed by the Coalition Government in its Spending Review is the attack on university students and higher education institutions in England writes Har…
22 October 2010 · 1 comment
100 Protest as Southwark Council unleashes cuts
On Wednesday night over a hundred people protested as Southwark Council agreed to cut £76 million from services and sack up to 1,000 staff. The Labour-led council adopted a high-profile medi…
21 October 2010 · 4 comments
Spending Review: A Comprehensive Austerity Attack That will lead to a Second Slump
Ralph Blake crunches the figures and explains how the Con Dems are attacking working people The coalition government have announced the most severe cuts in public spending since the great de…
17 October 2010 · 6 comments
The multiple crisis & our solutions: an ecosocialist transitional programme
Özlem Onaran argues that “the social democratic utopia of growing our way out of debt is not consistent with the ecological crisis. “ Britain has experienced the deepest crisis among the adv…
14 October 2010
SR to European conference: anticapitalists must build the resistance
Socialist Resistance is unable to attend your conference this weekend, but send you our best wishes and encouragements in seeking to work together. We have much in common as revolutionaries …
13 October 2010 · 2 comments
John Lennon Interview: "Power to the People"
The fanfare celebrating what would have been John Lennon's 70th birthday often misses out how he and George Harrison bucked their handlers and went on record against the Vietnam War. In this…
12 October 2010
Communities of resistance: how should we fight the cuts?
Sean Thompson of Green Left offers his perspective on how we need to fight back. We are in a period of crisis and opportunity during which you can almost feel the earth move beneath your fee…
12 October 2010
NO to racism, fascism and Islamophobia
Join the Unite Against Fascism national march and carnival Saturday 6 November 2010 Assemble: 12 noon, Malet Street, London WC1 Help build the national demonstration The call for a national …
6 October 2010 · 1 comment
South Africa after the strikes
London SOCIALIST RESISTANCE meeting WEDNESDAY 13 OCTOBER, 7.30pm, Speaker: Bobby Wilcox President of the African People’s Democratic Union of Southern Africa and prisoner on Robben island. I…
6 October 2010
Waltham Forest backs NUJs campaign to save journalist's life
Waltham Forest Trades Council formally gave its support to Charles Atangana , a journalist and NUJ member fighting deportation to Cameroon two days before his case goes before a High Court j…
2 October 2010 · 3 comments
SR: Ed Miliband is rolling over on cuts already
The positive outcome of the Labour leadership contest is that the new leader is not David Miliband, and the privatising, war supporting Blairites have been rejected. We should not underestim…
29 September 2010 · 2 comments
The United front – lessons for today
How to build a united mass movement is a key question for any successful resistance to the onslaught on jobs, wages and services, just as it is for the campaign against fascism or to get the…
26 September 2010
No more colosseums!
The prospect of the failure of the Commonwealth Games in Delhi, with reports of unfinished facilities leading to athletes and even countries threatening to pull out, has led to an outpouring…
26 September 2010 · 2 comments
Further education in crisis
For many decades, F.E. has been providing education and training opportunities for students who have either failed or been failed by the school system, giving them an opportunity to enter Hi…
25 September 2010
The Economic Strategy of the Coalition
In a recent presentation, Ralph Blake explained the economic strategy of the coalition. It can be downloaded from Slideshare.com . The economic strategy of the coalition
25 September 2010
Con Dems are lying about cuts! There’s an ecosocialist alternative
The Con Dems are hell-bent on a recession that will throw the economy into a double dip recession, explains a new leaflet from Socialist Resistance . The cuts that are planned for public ser…
24 September 2010 ·
The resistance to the cuts
Fred Leplat looks at the scale of the proposed Con Dem cuts; the growing opposition, including the TUC’s decision to call a demonstration and the role of organisations like the Coalition of …
24 September 2010
Jerry Hicks: There is an alternative...
Jerry Hicks is standing as a candidate in the election for General Secretary of the UNITE Union. He has made it clear where he stands on the issue of cuts. He says “This is a crisis not of o…
24 September 2010
Birmingham: Build the resistance to Con-Dem cuts!
The threat of redundancy hangs over all 26,000 Birmingham City Council (BCC) workers who have been given Section 188 notices warning of cuts in pay and conditions. That is the whole council …
24 September 2010
NHS Oxfordshire announces ... One in three NHS jobs to go.
At today's Board Meeting of NHS Oxfordshire released a bombshell. Tucked away on page 30 of a QIPP (Quality, Innovation, Productivity & Prevention) submission to the SHA (Strategic Health Au…
24 September 2010
SR: Build the resistance to the cuts
The Tory-led government elected in May has been preparing a package of "shock therapy" to dismantle what remains of the welfare state. The Comprehensive Spending Review on the 20th October w…
21 September 2010 · 1 comment
Release the Khimki hostages
A protest was held at the Russian Embassy in London in support of two anti-fascist activists who are in custody in Moscow, for their involvement protesting against the proposed Moscow to Sai…
19 September 2010 ·
Did Consumers Cause the BP Oil Disaster?
Liberal journalists, pale greens and others are trivializing the BP/Deepwater oil spill and distracting attention from the social roots of environmental destruction. It’s time to dump the my…
17 September 2010 · 2 comments
Defend the Khimki hostages - join the Russian embassy picket Monday 20th
A picket of the Russian Embassy in London is to be held on Monday September 20th. The protest is part of a series of international actions in defence of the Khimki hostages . These are two g…
17 September 2010
TUC fights the cuts: fine words and defiant deeds
The fiery speeches at the TUC congress in Manchester dominated the media headlines. People at work talked about the prospect of widespread strikes. Women at the school gates picking up prima…
16 September 2010 · 4 comments
Hugo Blanco tells Greens: End capitalism before it ends us
Hugo Blanco, a longstanding leader of Peruvian peasant struggles and fighter for indigenous rights is currently touring Britain as a guest of Socialist Resistance and Green Left. On 11th Sep…
14 September 2010 · 1 comment
Haringey protest against Labour council's threat of £70m cuts
Around 120 protestors braved the elements on Tuesday evening and raised their voices in a spirited and lively anti-cuts demonstration outside the offices of Haringey Council. The demonstrati…
13 September 2010
TUC adopts strong policy for a national campaign against cuts
Congress believes that the 2008 crisis is being used as the pretext for a global onslaught on public provision and welfare entitlements. Congress condemns the emergency Budget, which will re…
13 September 2010
Brum council stops march outside Tory conference
Anti-Tory protesters are being prevented from marching past the Tory party conference. At a meeting on Friday, 10 September, Birmingham council officials ruled out any route that gets near t…
13 September 2010 · 2 comments
Review: Žižek is endlessly elliptical and self-reflexive
Slavoj Žižek recently proclaimed that ‘only a strong dose of the left can protect liberal freedoms’. At a moment like this, such a clear statement of the importance of radical left-wing idea…
12 September 2010 · 1 comment
Vote Diane Abbott to build unity against the cuts
Labour Party members and trade unionists across Britain are voting for a new leader for the Labour party. One candidate stands out as a supporter of the struggles of working people: Diane Ab…
12 September 2010 · 3 comments
The Urgent Need to Struggle - Chto Delat? at the ICA
An exhibition has just begun in the Institute of Contemporatry Arts in central London which should be of great interest to socialists and radical activists. Chto Delat? is an autonomous Russ…
10 September 2010
Australia: the best available government
Australia now has a minority Labor Party government backed by the Greens and independents. It is the best government available in the circumstances. It is certainly to the left of any govern…
10 September 2010
New Viva Palestina Convoy t-shirt
WEAR THE VIVA PALESTINA CONVOY T-SHIRT IN SOLIDARITY WITH THE SIEGE-BREAKERS! On Saturday 18 September, the fifth, and most ambitious convoy leaves for Gaza. From London, Casablanca and Doha…
7 September 2010
Video: SR's Alf Filer at the Coalition of Resistance
Socialist Resistance's Alf Filer spoke to the recent Coalition of Resistance about the fight against the cuts in Britain, and the need to work alongside as part of an international resistanc…
6 September 2010
Every show of weakness encourages the government
The ConDem coalition has taken less than three months to show its true colours as an ultra-Thatcherite, neoliberal government in which Nick Clegg’s wretched LibDems play the servile role of …
3 September 2010
The first month of Labour Relief Campaign Pakistan
The Labour Relief Camp first camp was organized in Lahore on 1 st August 2010 at Regal Chouck Lahore. Earlier on 25 th July 2010, we decided to launch a Baluchistan appeal. It stated, “ Torr…
2 September 2010
Labour Relief Campaign brings aid to Pakistan
Sindh Labour Relief committee consists of Labour Education Foundation, Home Bassed Women Workers Federation, Home Based Women Bangle Workers Union Hyderabad, National Trade Union Federation …
1 September 2010
SSP aids donations to Pakistan's Labour Relief Campaign
The Scottish Socialist Party is encouraging donations to a British account which is channelling urgent donations to the Labour Relief Campaign in Pakistan. This makes is much easier and less…
31 August 2010 · 4 comments
Fascists humiliated in Brighton
A rabble of just 30-40 EDL/ENA members were effectively run out of town by hundreds of anti-fascists, assembled at short notice to demonstrate the city of Brighton and Hove want nothing to d…
31 August 2010
Tories out to destroy comprehensive education
All across the country teachers, school staff and pupils are looking forward to the start of the new academic year. Alex Kenny, an executive member of the National Union of Teachers, looks t…
30 August 2010 · · 2 comments
International support grows for Brazil’s socialist alternative
During the presidency of Lula da Silva Brazil's governing Workers’ Party has turned from a radical alternative into a safe pair of hands for capitalism. Now support is growing for a socialis…
30 August 2010
justice4bolton's urgent need to raise £35,000
On 20 March 2010, anti-racists and anti-fascists organised a demonstration in Bolton against a rally called by the so-called English Defence League (EDL). The EDL has direct links to the fas…
30 August 2010
Netherlands: Islamophobia is the main form taken by racism
Since the rise of Pim Fortuyn in 2002, Islamophobia has played a central role in Dutch politics. Geert Wilders and his Freedom Party have now emerged as a threat to all progressive forces. T…
29 August 2010
New leaflet for Manchester's October 23 Hugo Blanco dayschool
The Climate & Capitalism II Day Conference is now set for 23 October 2010 in Manchester, and a new leaflet is available below. Among the guest speakers will be Peruvian ecosocialist activist…
29 August 2010
Marxism and Psychology in 2010
A timely conference just took place in Canada on ‘Marxism and Psychology’. The connection between Marxism and ‘psychology’ is not often made by activists or academics, but the connection is …
25 August 2010
COP15 Activists Facing Trials
In December 2009 during the climate summit in Copenhagen, tens of thousands of protesters gathered to call for climate justice and challenge the ongoing UN negotiations. Instead of welcoming…
24 August 2010
Australia's ‘Greenslide’ to left — neither major party wins majority
By denying both the Australian Labor Party (ALP) and the the Liberal-National coalition an outright majority in primary votes and in House of Representatives seats, Australian electors voted…
20 August 2010 · 2 comments
SR: Take down Birmingham spy cameras!
The erection of over 200 CCTV and Automatic Number Plate Recognition (ANPR) spy cameras in the Sparkbrook and Washwood Heath areas of the city, including 72 covert or hidden cameras, combine…
18 August 2010
Build opposition to the “slash and burn” coalition’
Britain’s first coalition government since the war has completed its first Parliamentary session. Coalition, however, is something of a sick misnomer. What we have is a right-wing Thatcherit…
17 August 2010
Rank and file challenge for Unite leadership
Unite the Union Britain's largest and most influential Trade Union gears up for the election of its General Secretary. This election comes at a time when the Conservative and Liberal Democra…
16 August 2010 · 4 comments
Ireland becomes a NAMA Republic
All across Ireland the evidence of an enormous property crash hits one in the face with empty houses and office developments all over the country. Many of these, it is now admitted, will be …
12 August 2010
Hugo Blanco in Birmingham
Tuesday, 19th October at 7.30 pm Socialist Resistance Forum: ‘Latin America: the Ecosocialist Alternative’ with Hugo Blanco. Venue: Bennett’s Bar, Bennetts Hill, Birmingham B2 5RS
12 August 2010
Hugo Blanco at Green Party Conference
Saturday, 11th September Green Left/Socialist Resistance (fringe meeting event during the Green Party conference in Birmingham) ‘The Rise of the Green Left: Inside the Worldwide Ecosocialist…
5 August 2010 · 7 comments
Join the 'Coalition of Resistance'
As you are no doubt aware, the welfare state is under enormous threat from the current government. A new broad-based Coalition of Resistance has been formed to resist the cuts, and put forwa…
5 August 2010 · 3 comments
What I Stand For: Jerry Hicks' campaign to be UNITE general secretary
This election comes at a defining moment for working people in this country. It is the most important Trade union election for generations. We had the credit crunch, the recession and now th…
1 August 2010 · 2 comments
Advance tickets available for 'Latin America and the ecosocialist alternative' in Spanish and English
You can download the new leaflet for the seminar being organised by Green Left and Socialist Resistance with Hugo Blanco: click here for English and click here for Spanish, and save three po…
29 July 2010 · 2 comments
"Anti-Islamic Racism and Communalism": Indian socialists oppose veil ban
In country after country in Europe, political forces ranging from liberals (Belgium) to the openly right wing (Sarkozy in France, the Northern League in Italy) have been initiating actions t…
26 July 2010 · 3 comments
Socialist Resistance statement against the banning of the veil
Throughout Europe there is a growing movement that seeks to ban Muslim women who chose to do so from wearing the veil. In Britain today this demand comes mainly from the BNP, UKIP and some i…
16 July 2010 · 1 comment
The rise of Islamophobia
As the crises of capitalism continue to deepen internationally, so does the movement spread for scapegoating of others. This is not surprising nor is it new. In the 1930’s it was the great l…
15 July 2010
Eviscerating the NHS
New proposals set out in the new coalition government White Paper “Liberating the NHS” could reduce the National Health Service in England from one of Europe’s largest single employers, with…
5 July 2010
Respect resolves to build
The following resolution was agreed unanimously by the Respect National Council (NC) on Saturday July 3rd. It was moved by John Lister. Paragraph number 4 was not agreed, but will be discuss…
3 July 2010 · 1 comment
The resistible rise of Fascism: the lessons for today
[Jane Kelly's introduction Trotsky on fascism first appeared in Socialist Outlook's book on the far right, Ending the Nightmare. Is is suggested reading for participants at the Socialist Res…
28 June 2010
The Mass Arrests, the Security State and the Toronto G20 Summit
The massive police presence in Toronto over this week has been officially justified on the basis of protecting the leaders of the G8 and G20 countries meeting in Huntsville and Toronto. We w…
25 June 2010 · 2 comments
The Challenge Facing the G20
World Economy Brought back from the Edge of Depression but not Stagnation, at Our Expense Ralph Blake The financial crisis which started nearly three years ago rooted in loans to very poor A…
23 June 2010
Budget's sympathetic noose: Osborne shows his colours
The ConDem government claims to be ‘progressive’. It is nothing of the kind. Led by three public school boys in Cameron, Clegg and Osborne, this is rule by bankers and the rich in the intere…
22 June 2010 · 9 comments
Con Dems will create new slump
The butchers’ coalition’s emergency budget cuts and spending plans will push Britain into a decade long economic slump argues Ralph Blake The list of projects, services and support for the c…
18 June 2010
Keep Our NHS Public conference report
Norman Traub writes The annual general meeting of KONP was held in London on 12 th June. There were 70-100 people present. Although branches exist in relatively few areas, KONP punches above…
18 June 2010
Greek anticapitalist's speech: The agony and anger
The austerity measures announced by the Greek Government, dictated though by the IMF and the EU, attack the basic rights of the Greek working people. We are going through the initial phase o…
17 June 2010 · 2 comments
June 26: Stop the racist EDL in Wembley
The racist English Defence League – which has links to the British National Party and other fascist groups – has announced that they plan to “protest” outside a charity event organised by th…
17 June 2010 · 2 comments
Compass conference shows need for Labour left to turn outwards
There were a number of very positive things about the Compass conference 'A New Hope' in London last weekend. Both Caroline Lucas and Nick Dearden communicated very radical anti-cuts message…
15 June 2010
The "Treasury Bounce" forces unnecessary austerity, just like in the 1970s
One of the tragedies of the failed New Labour experiment is that it was always based on a repudiation of all historical precedent. Alistair Darling seems to be feeling the pinch of this some…
13 June 2010 · 3 comments
Get to Wembley for the Al-Khair Peace Convention onJune 26
The English Defence League are to attempt to demonstrate in Wembley against a peaceful conference organised to bring greater understanding between Muslims and non-Muslims. Such a conference …
11 June 2010 · 1 comment
A contribution to the debate on the future of Respect
Respect needs to take itself seriously build itself as a fully functioning party with a comprehensive political platform, engaging in a range of activities. This is the only way to build a p…
11 June 2010
Brent Fightback meeting on Thursday will fight cuts to defend services
A & E at Central Middlesex Hospital already faces closure, so does the Kilburn Site of the College of NW London. Jobs and courses are being cut across local colleges, so are Council jobs. Ro…
10 June 2010 ·
World Cup in South Africa – behind the glitz
Bobby Wilcox reports from South Africa that the football World Cup has more to do with big business than sport. When South Africa was selected to host the 2010 Soccer World Cup, a wave of eu…
7 June 2010 · 2 comments
Israeli Peace Bloc leader Uri Avnery beaten by rightist thugs
A disaster was averted on June 5 at Tel-Aviv’s Museum Square, when rightists threw a smoke grenade into the middle of the protest rally, obviously hoping for a panic to break out and cause t…
7 June 2010 · 3 comments
Gaza Flotilla attack: end impunity for Israel’s crimes!
The far-right government of Benjamin Netanyahu and Avigdor Lieberman has demonstrated once more its ability to go even further than earlier Israeli governments in trampling international law…
6 June 2010 · 15 comments
The Jewish boat to Gaza is sailing soon
In a harbour in the Mediterranean (we're not yet disclosing which one) a small vessel is waiting for a special mission. She will be sailing to Gaza. In order to avoid sabotage, the exact dat…
2 June 2010 · Uncategorized · 6 comments
ALBA countries must support Tamils not Sri Lanka’s War Criminal Government
Eva Golinger is known for her counter-intelligence analysis in the service of Venezuela’s peaceful revolution against the local oligarchy and the United States Empire. She is a noted author …
27 May 2010 · 3 comments
New Socialist Resistance out now
The June-July issue of Socialist Resistance is out now. With the British general election behind us, the magazine includes deep analysis of the left and the election, Jerry Hicks' campaign f…
27 May 2010 · 1 comment
Greece – a struggle for all Europe’s workers
This is the text of Aris Vasilopoulos’ speech to the “Can’t pay, won’t pay: solidarity with the Greek protests” meeting in London on May 26th.Dear friends and comrades, thank you for the inv…
18 May 2010
Solidarity with the Greek protests: public meetings
Manchester: Tuesday 25 MAY, 7.30pm, Methodist Central Building, image no longer in the archive Oldham Street, Manchester. Speaker : Aris Vasilopoulos, (member of Radical left Coalition Syriz…
16 May 2010 · 1 comment
SR: Resist government by the rich, for the rich
Other than a Tory majority this Conservative-Liberal coalition is the worst possible outcome of the general election, since it is the most effective platform available for cuts, austerity an…
16 May 2010 · 3 comments
Philippines socialists’ long march
Socialists in Mindanao, Philippines, take a very practical approach to the struggle for revolutionary change, focusing on democratic rights, mass campaigns and improving people’s basic livin…
12 May 2010 · 2 comments
Greek anticapitalists welcome European left's solidarity
Socialist Resistance recently joined with the SWP, NPA and 30 other anticapitalist organisations to make a common pledge of solidarity with the struggles in Greece. In the reply below, the G…
12 May 2010 · 2 comments
Scotland: The election everyone lost
Did you hear the one about the election everyone lost? On May 6, 2010, Labour the party in power lost 100 seats and with it the chance to continue in government after 13 years. The Conservat…
10 May 2010
SR: No to cuts; Yes to PR
The outcome of the general election was the one long predicted, with no party winning a majority. Labour lost and the Tories failed to win. The Lib Dems lost the surge they had expected and …
10 May 2010 · · 1 comment
Does Britain have a fascist movement?
Liam Mac Uaid argues that while Britain does not have a mass fascist movement the votes for the far right and the durability of groups like the BNP point to their potential. The far right in…
10 May 2010 · 5 comments
UNISON election – Paul Holmes is the candidate who can build a left wing
UNISON – the biggest union in the public sector in Britain – is having an election for General Secretary in the immediate aftermath of the general election. The result is due be announced on…
8 May 2010 · 2 comments
A disappointing election for Respect and other smaller parties
Clive Searle, National Secretary of the Respect Party, has sent this message to offer his heartfelt thanks to everyone who worked so hard in its election campaign across the country. We coul…
7 May 2010 · 3 comments
Greek bank worker speaks out on deaths
Greek PM Papandreou: Quick to exploit deaths During the massive protests against the IMF/EU assault on the Greek working class yesterday, a bank was burnt down, and three workers trapped ins…
5 May 2010 · 4 comments
Jerry Hicks says Unite are "lions led by donkeys"
While most eyes have been on the race for the General Election, another very important election has yet to hear the starting gun. The country’s largest trade union, Unite, must hold an elect…
5 May 2010
The Flying Carpet Institute interviews Israeli socialist Tikva Honig-Parnass
Israeli socialist activist Tikva Honig-Parnass fought in 1948 War as a Zionist. Years later she would break with Zionism and join the ranks of the Socialist Organization in Israel, also know…
4 May 2010 · 3 comments
Fiscal Crisis or a Crisis of Distribution? Squeeze the profits not the wages
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2 May 2010 · 3 comments
34 anticapitalist groups plan European solidarity with Greek struggle
1. The global economic crisis continues. Massive amounts of money have been injected into the financial system – $14 trillion in bailouts in the United States, Britain, and the eurozone, $1.…
30 April 2010 · 2 comments
The IMF plans social disaster in Greece
T he financial situation in Greece is getting worse everyday. For the time being, it is impossible for the country to borrow from the financial markets. The rate of interest for the Greek 10…
30 April 2010 · 3 comments
Greece: Driven into Crisis
Neoliberal order reigns in the world. Stock markets are recovering from the crash in the fall of 2008. Private banks are no longer weighed down by bad loans that were added to public deficit…
28 April 2010 · 1 comment
Far right Wilders replaces Socialist Party as Holland's party of opposition
Things are not going well for the Dutch Socialist Party. During the last municipal elections in March the party suffered a defeat, the first time it lost in an election. The SP is the only p…
27 April 2010 · 3 comments
Questions and answers on why the Deficit is THEIR problem, not ours
Deficits are the difference between what governments spend and what they take in. Governments often claim deficits are the fault of social spending that's too high. But in fact deficits alwa…
24 April 2010 · 2 comments
The current stage of the election campaign
The first two TV leadership debates — which were unprecedented 90 minute slots of primetime TV with a huge audience — have produced an earthquake in the election campaign. The Lib Dems surge…
23 April 2010 · 3 comments
'Cut Trident not public services' says Respect
"We cannot afford this ludicrous waste of money on nuclear weapons with no conceivable use," said Councillor Abjol Miah, Respect's candidate for Bethnal Green and Bow. "We are facing massive…
22 April 2010 · 1 comment
Peter Gowan Memorial Conference
A one-day conference to discuss the contribution and ideas of Peter Gowan (1946-2009), author of The Global Gamble, founding editor of Labour Focus on Eastern Europe, long-standing editor of…
21 April 2010 · 2 comments
Islamophobia sets the terms in The Netherlands
The Dutch government didn’t fall over involvement in Afghanistan last February; the unstable coalition stumbled over it. The islamophobic right might be the beneficiary of it. Until the twen…
15 April 2010 · 6 comments
A socialist manifesto for education
Dave Hill is a supporter of Socialist Resistance and the Trade Unionist and Socialist Coalition parliamentary candidate for Brighton Kemptown. He offers his alternative to the market driven …
14 April 2010 · · 1 comment
Women and Socialism: Learning from History
The coming decade of austerity will hit the oppressed hardest including women, especially working women. As the resistance to austerity cuts develops, the question of how oppressed groups in…
6 April 2010 · 3 comments
If Labour wins the election
Alan Thornett suggests an alternative programme for a Labour government There has been a remarkable collapse of Tory support in the opinion polls since the end of last year. The Tories ‘bull…
6 April 2010 ·
The New Palestinian Unions - independent, democratic and militant
As trade union militants in Britain steel themselves for big battles ahead they can look to the new Palestinian unions in the West Bank and Gaza for lessons in how to get things done. Tony R…
1 April 2010 · 3 comments
Defend the right to wear the niqab and burqa
The ban on minarets in Switzerland , followed by the rising tide of Islamophobia in Europe, is a move that Socialists and anti-racists must challenge at all times. Geert Wilder , the Stop Is…
30 March 2010 · 1 comment
NUT: Only a mass movement can fight climate change!
The outcome of the contemptible farce of the Conference of the Parties, or the climate change talks in Copenhagen, will shape politics globally for years to come. No one can be left in any d…
30 March 2010 · 3 comments
NUT: Stop Tory market madness wrecking our schools!
Two policies together are designed to unleash market madness in our school system: • All schools, primary as well as secondary, will be able to become Academies run by private organisations.…
30 March 2010 · 2 comments
SR says: Countermobilise against fascism, independently of UAF where necessary
Local countermobilisation is key. Numerous mobilisations, from Codnor to Bolton, have shown that UAF's frail national infrastructure is not a substitute for the need to build local anti-fasc…
23 March 2010
Support the IIRE's schools in Manila and Amsterdam
The International Institute for Research and Education (IIRE) in Amsterdam and Manila are happy to announce that both will organize a Global Justice School in 2010. For IIRE Amsterdam, the G…
23 March 2010
Call on the Home Secretary to drop the charges against Weyman Bennett
Weyman Bennett, a senior member of the UAF, was arrested at the start of the anti-fascist counter demonstration in Bolton and was charged with conspiracy to organise violent disorder. Weyman…
15 March 2010 · 3 comments
Should socialists support a `Robin Hood Tax’?
Yes, but critically argues Andy Kilmister. Over the last months a considerable amount of support has been building up for a so-called `Robin Hood tax’ on financial transactions with the aim …
11 March 2010 · 1 comment
Support Sussex students says Brighton TUSC candidate Dave Hill
Socialist Resistance member and TUSC candidate Dave Hill declares his solidarity with the Sussex Six at a recent election rally this week. Bob Crow of RMT and Hannah Sell of the Socialist Pa…
10 March 2010 · 4 comments
2010: Watershed Election
The outcome of the General Election may be looking less and less certain, but few are placing bets on New Labour winning a fourth term. With the media consensus that its, “time to give the o…
9 March 2010 · 5 comments
Farewell to our warm and beloved comrade, Jos Geudens
On Tuesday, March 9, our friend and comrade Jos Geudens suddenly died in Kenya. Shortly after waking up, he felt ill. He was transported to the hospital, but no avail could help. Jos Geudens…
9 March 2010 · 2 comments
How should we vote in the general election?
The new issue of Socialist Resistance is out next week. Our editorial calls for a vote for candidates who will maximise the left vote such as Respect, left Greens like Caroline Lucas, candid…
8 March 2010 · 3 comments
Edinburgh Anti-Fascist Alliance send open letter to UAF
Most readers will have been following how two weeks ago thousands of anti-fascists mobilised on the streets of Edinburgh to defeat the racist Scottish Defence League through militant direct …
8 March 2010 · 3 comments
Why we celebrate International Women's Day
To mark International Women's Day 2010, we reproduce Alexandra Kollontai's classic history and explanation of this important anniversary. Thanks to the Marxist Internet Archive (MIA) for mak…
8 March 2010
Join your local PCS rally to defend civil service compensation
Strike day marches and rallies are being held across the UK on Monday 8 March, and there will be a rally in central London on Tuesday 9 March (1pm, Westminster Cathedral Hall, Ambrosden Aven…
7 March 2010
Protest dawn raids on UNISON offices
Following the mitigation hearings Glenn Kelly (Bromely), Suzanne Muna (TSA ), Onay Kasab (Greenwich) and Brian Debus (Hackney) have all been banned from holding any office in Unison. Early i…
7 March 2010 · 2 comments
Manifesto for 21st Century Feminism launches
The meeting on ‘Feminism Today’ with Nina Power and Lindsey German at Housmans’ bookshop (Saturday, March 6, to celebrate International Women’s Day) attracted a hundred strong audience of wo…
7 March 2010
Iraqi Elections and the new Kurdish party
On 7 March the elections for the Iraqi Parliament take place. 6772 candidates are standing. They were nominated by 165 political groups and 12 electoral alliances and they are fighting for 3…
6 March 2010 · 3 comments
Fascism and state bans
The Pandora’s Box of racism, Islamophobia and homophobia has been well and truly opened and the winners out of all of this will be the far right, the BNP and other fascist groups in Britain.…
5 March 2010
Electoral cooperation in Greater Manchester
The Left in Greater Manchester, in the broad sense, has been able to respond reasonably well to the electoral strategy problems thrown up by the forthcoming general election and the lack of …
5 March 2010 · · 5 comments
Fourth International declares itself ecosocialist
Alan Thornett reports from t he sixteenth world congress of the Fourth International (FI) which was held near Ostend, Belgium, in late February. There were over 200 delegates, observers and …
4 March 2010
Emergency protest against the EDL in London this Friday 5 March
The English Defence League (EDL) will be marching in London on Friday 5 March in support of the far right Dutch MP Geert Wilders who is visiting the House of Lords to whip up hatred against …
3 March 2010
Learning from the '85 miners' defeat: organised women are a key element in strike success
The Miners' strike of 1984-5, which ended 25 years ago today, was a turning point in British politics. In this article, Terry Conway discusses the impact of Women Against Pit Closures, the i…
2 March 2010 · 1 comment
Birmingham: No cuts or redundancies! Build the resistance!
Birmingham’s ruling Tory / Liberal coalition are threatening to cut 2,000 jobs this year with 1000s more to follow, freeze the pay of 25,000 low paid workers and slash £75 million from the b…
27 February 2010 · 1 comment
Million Climate Jobs Conference – Register Now
Conference For A Million Climate Jobs Saturday 13th March 2010 South Camden Community School, Charrington St, London NW1 1RG Download the flyer here . The conference The failure of politicia…
26 February 2010 · 4 comments
Stop the EDL in Bolton on 20 March
Protest against the EDL - Saturday 20 March, 11am - Victoria Square, Bolton The racist hooligans of the English Defence League have rescheduled their plans to descend on Bolton for Saturday …
25 February 2010
Latin America: Business as Usual in Washington
Tony O’Sullivan wrote this article for the Birmingham Socialist Bulletin Over the last few years Latin America has taken great strides forward. A succession of governments have been elected …
25 February 2010
Ten principles we need in the fight against fascism
The events in Harrow, Stoke, Manchester, Birmingham, Glasgow, Edinburgh were correctly identified as provocative acts by the various fascist and racist groups to stir up racial hatred on our…
22 February 2010
Copenhagen failed, How do we stop climate change?
The humiliating collapse of the Copenhagen talks has left the world's rulers without a plan for addressing climate change. The US and Britain blamed China to mask their own responsibility in…
22 February 2010
Defend the NHS in London
The BMA Rally on February 25th to discuss a fightback against a massive programme of £5bn worth of cuts in hospitals, health services and NHS jobs over the next 5 years is an important initi…
21 February 2010 · 3 comments
Edinburgh: successful countermobilisation blocks nazis
After much anticipation and preparation, Saturday was the day of the English Scottish Defence League’s second outing. They had first appeared in Glasgow last November, with a generous estima…
20 February 2010
Help defend one of Israel's greatest filmmakers
Many prominent film-makers and others are supporting Mohammad Bakri, a Palestinian citizen of Israel and one of the country's most well known documentary filmmakers and actors. He is being h…
20 February 2010
Defend the NHS: two events
THURSDAY 25 FEBRUARY, 7pm BMA Open meeting on the threats to the NHS in London with speakers including Dr John Lister from Health Emergency who will present his BMA-commissioned report "Lond…
20 February 2010 · 2 comments
United States: Politics of Inverted Fear
A Letter from the Editors of the United States socialist magazine Solidarity . THE PERVASIVE SENSE of insecurity and menace in our society today is not unfounded. Far from it -- but the real…
18 February 2010 · 5 comments
Asylum: Democratic Psychiatry in 2010
Ian Parker writes Of all the miseries of life under capitalism ‘mental illness’ has been one of the most difficult for the left to tackle, yet there are histories of struggle that we need to…
16 February 2010 · · 2 comments
Resource wars and the Middle East
Phil Hearse Imperialism has always involved the theft of resources. Julius Caesar said that after his conquest of Gaul, of the 11 million inhabitants, three million had been killed and one m…
16 February 2010
Unite Against Fascism must build and strengthen a united movement
The threats from the far right today were identified as a serious issue that the labour movement in this country can no longer ignore at the Unite Against Fascism conference on February 13. …
15 February 2010 ·
Cadbury Takeover: ‘An ineffective Unite campaign without an effective fight’
Jerry Hicks When Royal Bank of Scotland, a taxpayer owned bank loans the money to an American company to buy a British chocolate manufacture, jeopardising jobs, we are angry. Bosses on one t…
15 February 2010
Videos of Daniel Bensaid memorial meeting
Socliast Resistance held a memorial meeting to commemorate the life and work of Daniel Bensaid on February 10th. Alex Callinicos of the Socialist Workers Party, Gilbert Achcar, a longstandin…
14 February 2010 · 5 comments
SWP: Neither 'rank & fileism' nor 'building the party' beats Labourism
Andy Newman’s article on Rank & Fileism on the Socialist Unity blog is informative with a number of interesting quotations, but it restricts itself to the history of the International Social…
11 February 2010 · 1 comment
Europe's posties have to pay for privatization
It's 1989; PTT Post, the Dutch state-owned postal company, is privatized. During the following years the company is split up in different parts responsible for postal deliveries, telegraphy …
9 February 2010 · 1 comment
Fighting Fascism: the next steps for UAF
The UAF conference on February 13 should be issuing a clarion call for all those in the labour movement to be represented at all levels in the organization. Mass mobilizations against fascis…
8 February 2010 ·
Public Meeting In Southend against cuts and privatisation of the NHS
Norman Traub reports on local campaigning to defend the NHS. At a public meeting organised by Southend Keep OUR NHS Public(KONP) on 2 nd February against cuts in services and privatisation o…
8 February 2010
EDL retreat in face of potential debacle in Bolton
Despite their announcement, made little more than a week previously, it would appear that EDL will not now be staging their planned protest, allegedly against 'Islamic extremistm', in Bolton…
5 February 2010 · 15 comments
Some Lessons of the Crisis in the SWP
The whole of the left in Britain, from those few still in the Labour Party to far left and revolutionary groups is in crisis. For twenty-five years, since the defeat of the Miners’ strike of…
4 February 2010 · 1 comment
Help stop Nick Griffin in Barking this Saturday
Unite Against Fascism is holding a day of action in Barking & Dagenham, east London, this Saturday 6 February to help drive Nick Griffin and the fascist British National Party (BNP) out of t…
3 February 2010 · 2 comments
Unite Against Fascism conference – support this resolution
Remember the Anti-Nazi League and Rock Against Racism. The movement was not so divided then as opposed to now. Searchlight, Hope Not Hate, UAF and other anti-fascist initiatives should be pu…
1 February 2010 · 2 comments
Hicks takes UNITE campaign to the workplaces
The campaign to elect Jerry Hicks as general secretary of UNITE is stepping us workplace leaflettings to help turn Britian's biggest union, and principal contributor to the Labour party, int…
30 January 2010 · 2 comments
After 'Climate & Capitalism' in Manchester: What Now?
The Climate & Capitalism Day School in Manchester on 23rd January was, we think, a success. But the proof of the pudding will, as Engels (among others) pointed out long ago, be in the eating…
28 January 2010 · 2 comments
People are not pollution
Ian Angus and Simon Butler ask if climate activists should support limits on immigration. This article which was written for the Canadian site Socialist Voice takes issues with those environ…
27 January 2010 · · 3 comments
Successful Climate and Capital event in Manchester (with video)
Terry Conway reports and we welcome additional remarks from anyone else who was there. Socialist Resistance and Green Left members in the North West organised a very successful event on Satu…
25 January 2010 · 1 comment
Leaflet confirms speakers for Daniel Bensaïd memorial meeting
Daniel Bensaïd's memorial meeting will be on Tuesday 9 February at 7.30pm in ULU, Malet St, WC1H. According to the leaflet now available at http://bit.ly/BensaidLeaflet the speakers will be …
25 January 2010 · 1 comment
New SR out: After Copenhagen, it's up to us!
The new issue of Socialist Resistance is now out with articles looking at how we stop the far right, what we need to do in the months before the coming elections and the response to the coll…
25 January 2010 · · 2 comments
Anti-fascist demonstration in Stoke
Stuart Richardson reports on the counter demonstration to the English Defence League in Stoke Birmingham Socialist Resistance supporters joined the UAF protest against the English Defence Le…
19 January 2010 · 8 comments
Sri Lankan Presidential Election: Vote Vickramabahu
Presidential Election 2010 Why vote Dr. Vickramabahu ? Below is the text of an appeal for signatures to support the electoral campaign of Vickramabahu Karunaratne, better known as Bahu. He i…
19 January 2010 · 1 comment
SPSC campaigners facing trumped-up political charges of ‘racism’
Thursday 21st and Friday 22nd of January, 9.30am outside Edinburgh Sheriff Court Help us fight the move to criminalise the boycott of Israel. The same British authorities who support the sie…
15 January 2010 · 2 comments
London meeting to celebrate Daniel Bensaïd's life and work
Activist-academics Gilbert Achcar, Stathis Kouvelakis and Alex Callinicos are among the speakers invited to address the memorial meeting for Daniel Bensaïd being organised by Socialist Resis…
14 January 2010 · 1 comment
Avatar: Visions of the eco-blues
There was much discussion at the time of its launch as to whether James Cameron’s latest product Avatar would save the US movie industry or sink it. Now it has become one of the biggest fina…
13 January 2010 · 3 comments
Condolences for Bensaïd's loved ones
Socialist Resistance shares the shock and pain of all those who knew and loved Daniel. He touched us in many ways: he encouraged us in launched our international campaign in support of Heloi…
12 January 2010 · · 4 comments
Daniel Bensaïd: a militant, an intellectual, a friend
As François Sabado explains below, our comrade Daniel Bensaïd, who had been seriously ill for several months, died this morning. After a private funeral, the NPA will organise a public tribu…
10 January 2010
Fujitsu are not having ‘IT’ all their own way says Jerry Hicks
The first ever national strike in IT is an inspiration and is to be applauded. The Unite union members in Fujitsu striking to defend their jobs, pay and pensions do so against a profitable c…
10 January 2010 · 1 comment
SR: Building left unity out of the wreckage
The Socialist Resistance national committee adopted this document by Liam Mac Uaid on January 9th to outline its balance sheet of the last decade's attempts at the resolving the crisis of wo…
8 January 2010 · · 2 comments
Not quite a clash of Titans
Both Labour and the Tories are pledged to a full spectrum of public spending cuts. John Lister looks at the consequences In a new year clash of Titans, Chancellor Alistair Darling locked hor…
6 January 2010 · 2 comments
New challenges face anti-fascists
The spectre of fascism continues to haunt Britain as the recession and crises of capitalism worsen. In the past year the British National Party (BNP) have been following the electoral strate…
6 January 2010 · 1 comment
COP 15 After-word: Insider’s Report from ALBA Delegation
“Nobel War Prize Winner walked in and out of a secret door, and that is the way capitalism and the United States Empire will end up leaving the planet, through a secret back door.” So spoke …
6 January 2010 · 1 comment
URGENT: Viva Palestina faced with 2,000 riot police in the port of Al-Arish!
Our situation is now at a crisis point! Riot has broken out in the port of Al- Arish. This late afternoon we were negotiating with a senior official from Cairo who left negotiations some two…
4 January 2010 · 2 comments
SR: Respect and the General Election
The Socialist Resistance national committee on January 9 adopted this document by Alan Thornett to respond to Salma Yaqoob's ideas about Respect’s strategy for the upcoming General Election.…
3 January 2010 · 1 comment
SR greets Socialist Alliance conference in Australia
As Britain approaches the most important election for a generation, all the main parties offer the same solution: austerity for the majority and bail-outs for the rich. Socialist Resistance,…
2 January 2010 · 1 comment
The trouble with elected mayors
The campaign by Tower Hamlets Respect for a referendum on having an elected mayor in the borough has refocused attention on the issue of democracy in local government. However, elected execu…