2011
30 December 2011 ·
Durban Climate Summit – Time to Change Course?
‘The UN climate talks in Durban were a failure and take the world a significant step back by further undermining an already flawed, inadequate multilateral system that is supposed to address…
29 December 2011
London Olympics and commercialised perversion
It’s hard to find news coverage of the London 2012 Olympics that does not feel like it’s been written by the event’s public relations consultants. Glyn Robbins is a longstanding political ac…
28 December 2011 · · 8 comments
Stieg Larsson "Efface your traces!"
Jane Kelly reviews Steig Larsson’s Millenium Trilogy: The girl with the dragon tattoo; The girl who played with fire; The girl who kicked the hornet’s nest Most people reading this review wi…
27 December 2011
Organise to defend pensions
The PCS Left Unity National Committee invites all activists from all unions to an organising conference on the 7 th of January to debate how we can build the campaign to defend our pensions …
24 December 2011 · 1 comment
Assessment of the failed Durban summit
Esther Vivas and Josep Maria Antenas assess the outcome of the Durban summit and argue for : no more "green capitalism". We will save the markets, not the climate. That is how we can summari…
22 December 2011 · 3 comments
Return of the food and energy crisis: structural problems and/or financial speculation?
Sean Thompson gave this presentation to a seminar of economists organised by The International Institute for Research and Education in Amsterdam in November. An edited version will appear in…
21 December 2011
Urgent appeal from flood-torn Mindanao
Ian Parker sent this eye-witness report from Mindanao on December 21. Europe solidaire sans frontières (Europe in Solidarity Without Borders)has launched a fundraising appeal in solidarity w…
19 December 2011
British politics, the Eurozone crisis, and the November 30th strike
This was discussed and agreed by the Socialist Resistance National Committee on December 17 1) The crisis and Osborne’s Autumn (budget) Statement The world economy is heading for recession –…
18 December 2011 · · 4 comments
Leanne Wood enters Plaid Cymru leadership race
image no longer in the archive Leanne Wood describes herself as socialist, republican, environmentalist, anti-racist and feminist. She has announced that she is contesting Plaid Cymru’s lead…
13 December 2011 ·
Fruitful solidarity exchange for Palestinian trade unionist
Mohammed Saleh (Aruri) is the Head of the International relations Department off the Federation of Independent Unions Palestine as well as the representative of Arura village in its twinning…
12 December 2011 · 1 comment
Labour councillor defies party over cuts
The Labour response to the Con Dem impoverishment of working people can be summarised as "not quite so many cuts, not quite so quickly." The utter absence of a Labour opposition to the Con D…
8 December 2011 ·
N30- unions strike a blow against weak government
Fred Leplat looks at the impact of N30 and discusses what comes next. The strike on Wednesday 30th November in defence of pensions for public sector workers was the largest seen for a genera…
8 December 2011 · 5 comments
Cuba’s Contradictory Stance on Tamils
This article by Ron Ridenour first appeared in the Havana Times . “Injustice anywhere is injustice everywhere” is usually how I begin my talks in this three-week tour through several cities …
7 December 2011
A dirty deal in Durban
What, now, are the prospects for a climate deal by Friday at the UN climate summit in Durban? ask Patrick Bond. The biggest problem is obvious: COP17 saboteurs from the US State Department j…
7 December 2011
Sounds Like Freedom; A Christmas Party to Celebrate the Arab Spring
Sounds Like Freedom is this year's Philosophy Football Christmas Party. The evening is a celebration of protest song, verse, street art and football in the year of the Arab Spring. Featuring…
6 December 2011
Durban climate protestors attacked by ANC youth
This is a press statement from C17 Global Day of Action in Durban. 4December 2011 – On Saturday 3 December, the mid-point of COP 17, about 12 000 people from across the continent and the wor…
3 December 2011 · · 2 comments
What Cameron’s lost decade means for us
Susan Pashkoff explains the real impact of the Con Dem attacks on working class living standards. Revised estimates by the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development (CIPD) are now pre…
29 November 2011 · 1 comment
New Pamphlet on food sovereignty
Socialist Resistance produced an pamphlet on food sovereignty as part of the tour we co-organised with comrades from Green Left with Maria Pampilo from the Philippines. With articles by Esth…
29 November 2011 ·
The revolution continues
Gilbert Achcar reports on the most recent developments across the Arab world While voices were being raised from the right, and part of the left, declaring the “Arab Spring” over and advisin…
29 November 2011 · 1 comment
Stand up for climate justice
image no longer in the archive March and Rally in London, Saturday 3rd December Assembles 12 noon near St Paul's (for precise location check www.campaigncc.org ) for march to Parliament. Cli…
28 November 2011 · 3 comments
Mandy Mudd “I am not intimidated, I will not shut up”
Mandy Golding, better to known on the left as Mandy Mudd, died on Monday 31 st October. Mandy played a significant role in the left in Haringey and London during the 1980s. Glyn Rowlands pay…
27 November 2011
Greek Debt Audit Campaign Press Statement
The appointment of the new government at our creditors’ behest, sealed by the EU and the bankers results to nothing less than the dramatic collapse of democracy and the flagrant violation of…
26 November 2011 · 6 comments
Latin America: neo-liberalism and resistance videos
The class struggle in Latin America has been by turns turbulent and inspiring for more than a decade. From the Zapatistas, the election of Hugo Chavez and the struggles of indigenous peoples…
26 November 2011 · 1 comment
‘The Land Is Ours’ bounces back !
In early October the land rights organisation The Land Is Ours held its first gathering for a decade, attended by more than a hundred activists over a full weekend. Dave Bangs reportd This h…
23 November 2011
Jenin campaign Christmas cards
If you are looking for a good cause in terms of buying your Christmas cards this year, look no further! The Twin Jenin Campaign (now known as the Tower Hamlets & Jenin Friendship Association…
22 November 2011
New Socialist Resistance out now
The new issue of Socialist Resistance is out this week just days before millions of trade unionists take action on November 30th against the Con Dem plans to make them poorer. With picket li…
18 November 2011 · 1 comment
Resistance in Latin America
Socialist Resistance Public Meeting THURSDAY 24 NOVEMBER, 7.30PM Community Centre, 62 Marchmont Street, WC1N 1AB (Kings Cross & Russell Square tubes) Speakers: JEFF WEBBER, author of "From R…
16 November 2011
Lenin as a Midfield General?
image no longer in the archive "For those who desire not simply an aimless skipping from instance to instance, an integral central movement will take us forward towards a great goal." Lenin …
16 November 2011 · · 1 comment
Bye Bye Berluska, Ciao Super Mario the banker’s friend...
Berlusconi falls but the banks and capital continue in power and will step up attacks on working people. Dave Kellaway looks at the situation in Italy. Irony of ironies... Berlusconi came to…
14 November 2011
Imperialism, capitalism and food
Graciela Romero , War on Want International Programmes Director spoke at the Socialist Resistance / Green Left seminar on food sovereignty last week. In her presentation she explicitly linke…
14 November 2011
Goodbye to Berlusconi – now let's fight the bankers' government
Sinistra Critica is Socialist Resistance’s sister organisation in Italy. This is their response to the resignation of Berlusconi and the new government. The thousands of women and men in the…
13 November 2011 ·
Wanted: young people 16-14 for varied work
Stephen Hall reports from Wigan. This famous photo shows an unemployed worker in Wigan at the time of George Orwell's visit to the town prior to his writing of "The Road to Wigan Pier". Must…
10 November 2011 · 6 comments
New Parties of the Left–a view from the Green Party
Sean Thompson of Green Left reviews Socialist Resistance’s recent book. New Parties of the Left looks at the attempts that have been made to create new parties to the left of the ‘mainstream…
9 November 2011
Put the boot into this crisis ridden Government!
The vote by UNISON, Britain’s biggest union, to take strike action on November 30 in defence of pension rights, with 245,358 in favour and 70,253 against, put the strike on course to be the …
9 November 2011 · 5 comments
China studies Marxism: 12 pro-capitalist lines
Ian Parker reflects on his recent visit to China Capitalism in China is rapidly uprooting and throwing into the market-place all that seemed fixed and fast frozen since the revolution in 194…
8 November 2011
Currencies are not the problem
AND BURNING CARS IS NOT THE SOLUTION. In an article originally published on his website on October 24, Roy Ratcliff looks at the European debt crisis Currencies. As the debt crisis unfolds a…
6 November 2011
French anti-capitalists “attack” bank
This little video shows a group from the Nouveau Parti Anticapitaliste in France taking direct action against a bank in solidarity with the people of Greece. Speaking in French Olivier Besan…
6 November 2011
Fox on the Run
Patrick Scott predicts that the fox hunting season is not over just yet. It all started out as a trickle of allegations against Liam Fox and Adam Werrity. Very soon the trickle turned into a…
3 November 2011
PUBLIC SECTOR PENSIONS – NUT REPORT ON GOVERNMENT OFFER
The Government’s proposals In discussions with TUC unions including the NUT, the Government has been putting forward a package of proposals for public sector pensions. These would involve te…
3 November 2011
#OWS You Don’t Need a Weatherman
Abra Quinn reports from Oakland. image no longer in the archive One of the signs at Occupy Oakland’s General Strike today read “There are decades when nothing happens, and there are weeks wh…
1 November 2011 · 1 comment
For a Federal United Ecosocialist states of Europe
Ralph Blake and Dave Packer continue the debate on our response to the crisis. Michel Husson [1] in more general broad terms and Ozlem Onaran [2] in more concrete ones put forward a strategy…
31 October 2011 · · 3 comments
Two-pronged bid to carve up our NHS
John Lister from London Health Emergency looks at the issues facing us in defending the NHS The National Health Service has never faced a more serious threat than it does now, with a margina…
30 October 2011
Jesus would have been at LSX
“What would Jesus do?” is one of the questions that anti-capitalists have been asking outside St Paul’s cathedral. It’s one that some Church of England clergy have answered by saying he’d be…
30 October 2011 · 2 comments
Join the London Pro Choice Counter Picket!
Defend a Women’s Right to choose! The British Pregnancy Advisory Service in Bedford Square is currently being picketed by an anti abortion group called 40 Days for Life. On their website, 40…
28 October 2011 · 5 comments
Feed the World tour
A tour on food sovereignty could not be more pertinent as supermarket profits, food prices and world hunger are all rising. The response of the British government institutions is to call for…
28 October 2011 · · 1 comment
Towards Meltdown: political realities in an era of economic collapse
image no longer in the archive Events in the last year have provided some definitive answers to debates in the left about the nature of the crisis and the future of Neoliberalism writes Phil…
28 October 2011 ·
All things in common, all people one
Stephen Hall looks at the life of the great English revolutionary Gerrard Winstanley and reveals his little known Wigan connection. It may come as a surprise to many, that it’s only recently…
26 October 2011 · · 3 comments
Tony Cliff’s enduring legacy
Philip Kane reviews Ian Birchall’s new biography of Tony Cliff. Tony Cliff: A Marxist for His Time Ian Birchall Paperback: 552 pages Publisher: BOOKMARKS £16.99 It’s been said that Tony Clif…
26 October 2011 · 2 comments
For a Teachers’ Work to Rule from 1st January
This is the text of a leaflet produced by supporters of Socialist Resistance in the National Union of Teachers. You can download it here . For a National Work to Rule from 1st January! For a…
26 October 2011
Upcoming Socialist Resistance events in Birmingham
Socialist Resistance Forums 1. Tuesday 15 th November Feeding the World Maria Neri from Mindano Philippines 7.30 pm committee rooms 3 &4 Council House 2. Tuesday 13 th December ‘Russia today…
19 October 2011 · 1 comment
Should socialists support leaving the Euro?
The debate about retaining the Euro is a live one for the European left. In this article Joe Carter of Socialist Democracy in Ireland argues that exiting the Euro is not part of a working cl…
16 October 2011
OccupyLSX–What sort of answers can our side offer?
An evening of open discussion and debate Tuesday 18 October, 7.30pm Community Centre, 62 Marchmont Street, WC1 (Russell Sq & Kings Cross tubes) Introduced by: Alan Thornett, Socialist Resist…
12 October 2011 ·
Building support for November 30th strike in Brighton
image no longer in the archive Dave Hill reports on a meeting at Brighton University on October 11th. Members of Socialist Resistance and other socialist organisations joined with public sec…
12 October 2011
USA: Solidarity with Occupy Wall Street
Occupy Wall Street is just about the best thing that’s happened to America since the economic crisis first broke. Occupation is spreading. We’re standing up and fighting back. And we’re show…
10 October 2011 · 2 comments
Irish left alliance declines party opportunity
image no longer in the archive The United Left Alliance (ULA) has five members in the southern Irish Parliament. The Alliance brings together the Irish Socialist Workers Party. Socialist Par…
9 October 2011 · 2 comments
How to make an ecosocialist revolution
Ian Angus runs the Climate and Capitalism website and is an advisory editor of Socialist Resistance. This is the text of his keynote presentation to the Climate Change Social Change conferen…
7 October 2011
Enough is Never Enough (for those who have too much)
Roy Wilkes writes Even if the Condem government gets away with its entire austerity offensive, they will not be satisfied. For the capitalist class, who are motivated only by the desire for …
6 October 2011
The Crisis and the Fightback: public meeting
Tuesday 18 October, 7.30pm Community Centre, 62 Marchmont Street, WC1 (Russell Sq & Kings Cross tubes) Speakers: Alan Thornett, Socialist Resistance and author of Militant Years, and George …
6 October 2011 · · 35 comments
Apple’s rotten core
None of the eulogies for Steve Jobs are likely to have much to say about the people who made his fortune writes Liam Mac Uaid . Apple has pioneered an aggressive anti-union strategy both in …
5 October 2011 · 3 comments
Sinn Féin becoming Fianna Fáil lite
Brian Hughes looks at Martin McGuinness’ decision to contest the southern Irish presidential election. More updates on Irish politics can be found at Socialist Democracy’s site. The decision…
4 October 2011
Block the Bridge – Block the bill
Mass demo on Westminster bridge to save the NHS Sunday 9 October, 13:00 onwards Westminster Bridge, London Join Unite and UK Uncut on Sunday 9 October from 1pm on Westminster Bridge, SW1 and…
4 October 2011
Feed the world without destroying the planet
A seminar on food sovereignty Saturday 12 November, 11am – 5pm ULU, Malet Street, WC1, London Speakers include: Maria Neri from CONZARRD, an NGO focusing on agrarian reform and rural develop…
3 October 2011 · 3 comments
Europe Against Austerity conference report
Fred Leplat, one of the conference’s organisers, offers his thoughts on a significant event. The Europe Against Austerity conference last Saturday was attended by 681 people including 150 fr…
3 October 2011
A Europe of the workers and the peoples
Olivier Besancenot of the Nouveau parti anticapitaliste and former French presidential candidate, spoke at the Europe Against Austerity conference in London on October 1st. This is a transla…
2 October 2011 · 1 comment
Libya - a thoroughgoing popular revolution
This eyewitness account is taken from Socialistworker.org A RECENT editorial SocialistWorker.org editorial ("Who really won in Libya") suggested that it was NATO that, in fact, won the revol…
29 September 2011
Final timetable - Europe Against Austerity Conference
Saturday 1 October 10am-5pm, Camden Centre, London Europe is on the brink of breakdown. A Greek default is almost inevitable. Already standards of living in Greece are plummeting,and protest…
28 September 2011 · 4 comments
New Parties of the Left: Experiences from Europe
With its latest publication "New Parties of the Left: Experiences from Europe", the IIRE, in collaboration with Resistance Books, provides a much needed analysis of the European regroupment …
23 September 2011 · 1 comment
The current political situation
The international situation is dominated by a new stage of the economic crisis led by led by Europe, the USA, and Japan. 1) The crisis of the Euro Zone. In Europe the centre of the crisis is…
23 September 2011
Chris Bambery: crisis, resistance and political representation
Chris Bambery (of the International Socialist Group in Scotland, author of A Rebel’s Guide to Gramsci and a former editor of Socialist Worker) spoke at the September launch of Socialist Resi…
23 September 2011
Workers’ Resistance: Lessons from Industry
Alan Thornett will be speaking at the Leeds and Liverpool launch meetings of his new book Militant Years: car workers’ struggles in Britain in the 60s and 70s. In Liverpool it’s on Wednesday…
22 September 2011 · · 3 comments
Henri Lefebvre and ecosocialism
Adam Whitford Henri Lefebvre (1901-1991) is famous for writing about space: not outer space, but social space. He looks at how space is cr eated and used under capitalism, and how different …
22 September 2011
Register NOW for October 1
EUROPE AGAINST AUSTERITY CONFERENCE Saturday 1st October, London Should Greece default? Has the euro got a future? Is there an alternative to cuts? Are we facing ‘double dip’ recession? As t…
21 September 2011
Libya: For a constituent assembly to take the revolution forward.
Socialist Resistance welcomes the continuing advance of the Libyan uprising and looks forward to the completion of the revolution. The uprising has the potential not only to carry through th…
18 September 2011 · 1 comment
No country for the young
Hatcher, R. and Jones, K. (eds) (2011) No Country for the Young: education from New Labour to the Coalition . London: Tufnell Press. £12.95. The Coalition government’s programme for educatio…
16 September 2011 · · 1 comment
Danish Elections: big gains for Red Green Alliance
By Thomas Eisler With 6.7% and 12 MPs the Red Green Alliance (RGA) has tripled its electoral support at the elections for national parliament on September 15 compared to the elections in 200…
15 September 2011
Support grows for October 1
Film maker Ken Loach is the latest person to add his support to the Europe against Austerity Conference on October 1 in London. Ken said: The need to organise against cuts is plain to all. I…
15 September 2011
Mass strikes called for November 30
In a remarkable move, the annual Trade Union Congress saw major unions UNISON, GMB and UNITE, each with over 1 million members, launch a campaign for strike action on November 30. At least t…
13 September 2011 · 1 comment
Demonstrate to support London Living Wage
Wednesday 14 September, 11.30am Senate House carpark (Russell Square side) Bloomsbury Fightback Labour MPs Frank Dobson and John McDonnell are supporting the cleaners' fight against the Univ…
10 September 2011 ·
Ten Years From September 11
David Finkel argues first decade of the twenty-first century has seen the United States enter into sharp social decline and a notable erosion of its seemingly invincible former imperial auth…
9 September 2011 · 1 comment
Join Olivier Besancenot on October 1
The NPA's Olivier Besancenot is just the latest high profile speaker committed to be at the October 1 conference against Austerity in London. Those who were hoping that the summer would brin…
5 September 2011
Militant years : Leeds meeting
Militant years. Meeting and book launch Speaker Alan Thornett Thursday 29 September 7.30 pm Victoria Hotel Great George Street (Back of the Town Hall) Leeds. Alan will be speaking about stru…
4 September 2011 ·
Why you should be at the Europe against Austerity conference
Fred Leplat explains why you need to book your place now for the October 1 conference: If the ruling class and the ConDem Government had hoped that the summer would bring some relief to the …
2 September 2011
Obituary: Alf Filer: 1953-2011
Fred Leplat pays tribute to our comrade and friend: Alf died tragically and suddenly in a road accident on Thursday 23rd June while returning home from a Socialist Resistance meeting in Brig…
2 September 2011
Famine: less land, more hunger
In this piece, Esther Vivas outlines in succinct and graphic terms why the issue of food sovereignty is a key issue for ecosocialists across the globe. This is the reason why Socialist Resis…
2 September 2011 · 3 comments
Imminent Victory in Libya – the struggle will continue
Socialist Resistance celebrates the imminent victory of the Libyan rebellion through the recent advances. This has the potential not only to carry through the democratic liberation of Libya …
31 August 2011 · 1 comment
Feed the world without destroying the planet
Tour of Philipina Ecosocialist We live in a world where soil erosion, desertification and famine is an ever-increasing reality for millions of poor people. At the same time the profits of la…
29 August 2011
Neoliberal looters run riot
This piece is the editorial in the forthcoming issue of Socialist Resistance which will be available from September 3. A young man steals £3.50’s worth of water and receives a jail sentence …
22 August 2011 · 1 comment
Once upon a time in history
How to Change the World: Tales of Marx and Marxism 1840-2011 by Eric Hobsbawm Little, Brown, 470 pp, £25.00, January 2011, ISBN 978 1 4087 0287 1 Reviewed by Jack Whitman Hobsbawm’s latest a…
19 August 2011 ·
From Pension Struggles to Political Representation
Liam Mac Uaid Writing about the London riots Tariq Ali argued : “were there a serious political opposition party in this country it would be arguing for dismantling the shaky scaffolding of …
15 August 2011 · 2 comments
‘Rank & File’ construction workers’ meeting
Some names have been left out deliberately to guard against any employer retribution. 5OO Electricians and pipefitters sent out a clear message to JIB/HVCA employers and Unite the union that…
15 August 2011
Medway riots: the phantom menance
Phil Kane was asked to write an article for the the local Medway Broadside on the effects of the riots in Medway. This is what he came up with. To refer to the Medway riots, as far as they h…
13 August 2011
And another rule for the very rich
Treasure Islands: Tax Havens and the Men who Stole the World, by Nicholas Shaxson, Bodley Head, RRP £14.99 316 pages Tony Traub The offshore system is in good health. More than half of world…
12 August 2011 · 6 comments
After the riots - collective punishment?
NY Brit expat looks at the Tories suggestion of imposing collective punishment on working class, usually muti-racial communities by depriving people of social houisng if anyone in their hous…
12 August 2011 · 1 comment
‘Manchester calling’ For what?
Ian Parker reflects on what he saw in Manchester and argues that it was “a symptom of suffering, a symptom of crisis, in which, for all of its problems, a spark of anger, activity and visibi…
11 August 2011 · 1 comment
A week at the Fourth International Youth Camp
Socialists have to be internationalists. This means that they have to organise across national boundaries and draw on the experience of the working class and oppressed around the world. That…
11 August 2011
Bloomsbury Fightback! Tougher than it sounds
Molly Cooper is a member of UNISON in University College London. Education is at the frontline of the struggle against cuts, austerity and privatisation and a successful fight against them n…
8 August 2011 · 4 comments
Con Dem chickens come home to roost
The first year of Cameron’s coalition was marked by austerity; massive inequality; rapid impoverishment of millions of people; corruption in the media, police and politicians; destruction of…
8 August 2011 ·
Chavez vows to stand again in 2012
“I'll be as bald as Yul Brynner”, Hugo Chavez told thousands of supporters outside the presidential palace in Caracas at the end of July, as he sang and danced to celebrate his 57 th birthda…
7 August 2011 · 1 comment
Is the north of Ireland still a sectarian state?
Birmingham Socialist Resistance public meeting John McAnulty Socialist Democracy — Ireland 7.30pm Tuesday 23rd August Bennetts, Bennetts Hill, Birmingham City Centre During the recent “march…
6 August 2011 · 3 comments
Under Two Dictators; prisoner of Stalin and Hitler
Under Two Dictators; prisoner of Stalin and Hitler Margarete Buber-Neumann Pimlico, London, 2008. £17.99 [Remaindered at The Works,£4.99 - £2.99] We should all read, remember, esteem and lea…
6 August 2011 ·
‘Open Public Services’ White Paper: the risky road to privatisation
The government’s delayed White Paper on ‘Open Public Services’ was published in July writes Richard Hatcher . Commentators have been divided on its significance. Tessa Jowell, the Blairite f…
4 August 2011 · 2 comments
European conference against austerity
Call for a European Conference against Austerity, Cuts and Privatisation and in Defence of the Welfare State A new movement has risen in Europe. In Greece in May a series of general strikes …
31 July 2011 · · 1 comment
Breivik: Right-wing Violence and Ideology
Cassandra Rossi On July 23, Oslo was rocked first by a bomb attack in the centre of the city and the horrific massacre at Utøya Island. There is a strong probability that the attacks in the …
27 July 2011 · 1 comment
A rant against militant trade unionism
A review of ‘Turbulent Times in the Car Industry – Memories of a Trade Union Official at Cowley Oxford’ by David Buckle. Paperback, 110 pages, £4.99. Published by David Buckle MBE April 2011…
25 July 2011 · 4 comments
The Politics of Integrity versus the Politics of Celebrity
Downfall: The Tommy Sheridan Story By Alan McCombes, Birlinn 2011 326 pages, paperback £9.99 REVIEW BY ALEX MILLER In the elections to the Scottish Parliament in May 2003, the Scottish Socia…
24 July 2011 · 2 comments
East Africa in the grip of famine
As famine returns to East Africa, Norman Traub pins the blame on climate change and imperialist intervention. Famine was declared in two regions of Somalia on 20th July. This occurs when acu…
21 July 2011 · 1 comment
Mafia capitalism exposed!
Piers Mostyn updates us on further events around the News International phone hacking scandal. One week on a lot more has happened. As radio commentator Steve Hewlett put it, “any associatio…
21 July 2011
Education unions pledge more action in Autumn
This is the text of a letter to their members from the general secretaries of the three teaching unions which took strike action in June. The industrial action our members took on 30 June wa…
21 July 2011 · 7 comments
Debate: What do we think about the euro?
A debate is now taking place about the viability of the euro as a currency. The next issue of Socialist Resistance will have extensive coverage of the economic situation and the left’s respo…
20 July 2011
What can we learn from the PCS?
This article has been sent to us by an activist in the PCS. It was not a surprise that the Public and Commercial Services Union (PCS) was one of the four unions involved in 30 th June. It ha…
20 July 2011
“Show me a capitalist, I’ll show you a bloodsucker”
Malcolm X: A Life of Reinvention by Manning Marable Hardcover: 608 pages Publisher: Allen Lane Reviewed by Liam Mac Uaid Manning Marable was probably the influential historian of the black e…
18 July 2011
Facing the debt crisis in Europe
image no longer in the archive Damien Millet - Eric Toussaint make the case for a debt audit One of the features of the financial sector crisis that began in 2007 in the United States and sp…
17 July 2011 · 1 comment
The Tripe of Life
Liam Mac Uaid is unimpressed by a film pondering the big questions. Terrence Malick’s The Tree of Life won the Palme d’Or at the Cannes film festival and it is certainly in a different class…
14 July 2011 · · 7 comments
News Corporation: crime, corruption and class rule
On Sunday, that bastion of scandal-mongering populist reaction, the News of the World (NOTW), departed this earth writes Piers Mostyn . It was the country’s biggest selling Sunday paper and …
10 July 2011 · 4 comments
Greece will default soon
Greece will Default soon either under the coercion of the European Union; involuntary or through the will of the people argues Ralph Blake . It is clear to both financial experts and lay peo…
7 July 2011
RMT announce demonstration in Derby over Bombardier job cuts
Details of the timings and the route of the Derby protest are still being agreed with the police and the council and further details will be available shortly. Meanwhile, rail union RMT dema…
5 July 2011
Support the petition for a fair pension for all
Sign the National Union of Teachers’ petition here . Dear Prime Minister, We all deserve dignity and decent living standards in retirement. This is affordable in the sixth largest economy in…
1 July 2011 · 2 comments
Pensions strike a watershed
One of the most noticeable things about the turnout on the London demonstration called by striking unions on June 30th was how young so many of the participants were and the preponderance of…
26 June 2011 · 24 comments
Alf Filer as we knew him: messages in tribute
image no longer in the archive We have learned of the sad death of Alf Filer , a Socialist Resistance member in Worthing and previously a long-time activist in Brent and Harrow in North-West…
26 June 2011 · 2 comments
Disabled People and the Cuts: fighting or reinforcing social oppression
Disabled socialist and a co-founder of Disabled People Against Cuts, Bob Williams-Findlay, attempts to provide some background to the increased participation of disabled people in campaignin…
22 June 2011 ·
Is Greece another Lehman’s?
Ralph Blake As the ruling class fight over another bailout, is Greece another Lehman's - that's the question that has been raised in the financial markets over the last few weeks by financia…
21 June 2011 · · 3 comments
Defend public sector pensions
Roy Wilkes For teachers and civil servants, as well as for many other public sector workers, the opening salvo in the war against cuts is turning out to be a momentous battle to defend pensi…
21 June 2011
The 15-M movement soars to the occasion
Hundreds of thousands of people thronged the central streets of tens of cities and towns across the Spanish State on 19 June in response to a call from the 15-M movement with demands ranging…
16 June 2011
Nuclear Nightmare- Fukushima and the Case Against Nuclear Power
image no longer in the archive To tie in with our forthcoming forum Nuclear Power: An ecosocialist critique , Birmingham Socialist Resistance have produced this 32 page pamphlet featuring ar…
15 June 2011
The most unequal place in Britain
This film was made by The Gabber.Org for Tower Hamlets HOOPS (Hands Off Our Public Services). It features interviews with local people talking about how the British Government's austerity po…
13 June 2011
India's war on the poor
by Andrew On Sunday, with 500 others, I attended a meeting on ‘India’s war on the poor’ at Friends House in London. The headline speaker was the novelist Arundhati Roy. She spoke eloquently …
9 June 2011 · 3 comments
Eurozone In Crisis–London Meeting
Solidarity with the Resistance ! Speaker from Democracia Real Ya (London), Sofia Hilari Greek anti-capitalist activist, Kate Hudson CND, Alex Kenny NUT. Organised by The Coalition of Resista…
25 May 2011
Dig deep to support the youth camp and Sri Lankans
Dig deep to build Socialist Resistance Support the Fourth International Youth Camp This summer young socialists from across Europe will be heading to the Fourth International Youth Camp for …
24 May 2011 · 1 comment
For a Federal United Ecosocialist states of Europe
Another world is possible - but not by reforming the EU and staying in the Euro! Dave Packer and Ralph Blake Michel Husson [1] in more general broad terms and Olzlem Onaran [2] in more concr…
24 May 2011
Monarchy in the UK part 2
"The string that ties the robbers bundle" The monarchy, despite its longevity and its seeming stability (as evidenced by coming the jubilee – QE2 outstripping probably any other head of stat…
24 May 2011
London says no to Lansley's bill
Around 5000 people, led by health workers and student health workers, took to the streets of London on Tuesday May 17 on a demonstration called by Keep our NHS public, to send a noisy messag…
21 May 2011 · 1 comment
Spanish state: indignation in revolt
Finally the spirit of revolt has come back to the Spanish state, after years of weak resistance against the crisis and the decision of the two main unions, CCOO and UGT, to sign a deal last …
20 May 2011
Monarchy in the UK
"The string that ties the robbers bundle" The monarchy still does the ideological heavy lifting for the bourgeoisie, as this Spring’s two major Royal events have shown. The marriage of the Q…
19 May 2011 · 3 comments
Demonstrations break out across Spain - exclusive video
Demonstrations have broken out in Madrid, Barcelona and many other Spanish cities in protest at the Government's handling of the economic crisis. Sandra from the organisation Izquerdas Unida…
19 May 2011
Kettled in Jerusalem
Socialist Resistance supporter Tony Richardson has travelled to Palestine many times over recent years in particular to build links with independent Palestinian trade unions and to support a…
18 May 2011
Brazil: Party of Socialism & Freedom (PSOL) embraces Ecosocialism
Congratulations to Michael Lowy, Joao Alfredo (pictured left) and all who took part in PSOL’s (Partido Socialismo e Liberdade) first ecosocialist gathering in the Brazilian city of Curitiba …
7 May 2011
Scottish voters bring break up of Britain closer
Voters in the 2011 Holyrood election Scotland swung from parties right across the political spectrum to the Scottish National Party (SNP) to give them a majority in the next Scottish parliam…
7 May 2011 · 1 comment
Tories rampant - SNP landslide shows lessons
image no longer in the archive David Cameron’s Tories were the winners in the various electoral contests which took place on Thursday after a series of election campaigns in which they clear…
5 May 2011
Osama bin Laden: a small-scale killer/war criminal
Why was Osama bid Laden killed in cold blood? Since it is now clear he was seized and later killed. The answer is obvious since bringing him to trial would have revealed the numerous crimes …
30 April 2011 · 3 comments
Counterfire was wrong to oppose Alternative Vote
Counterfire is the latest far left organisation to declare for a NO vote in the referendum (on May 5, on the Alternative Vote, or AV). Whilst they rightly attack First Past the Post (FPTP) a…
26 April 2011
Nuclear power is not the answer
Join CND at a public meeting on the 25th anniversary of the Chernobyl disaster. Twenty-five years on from the Chernobyl disaster the world is facing a new nuclear catastrophe at Fukushima, y…
22 April 2011 · 10 comments
Why it is wrong to call for a NO vote on AV
The Tory-led, and heavily funded, campaign for a NO vote in the AV referendum appears to be winning the contest hands down. Cameron, with a total commitment to the corrupt FPTP system, is wh…
20 April 2011
The new war in the Middle East- Birmingham SR Forum
Speakers: Fred Leplat, Stop the War Coalition & Spocialist Resistance, Dr Sami Ahmed, Midlands Egyptian Society Tuesday 17th May, 7.30pm “Bennetts” Bennetts Hill, Birmingham City Centre, B2 …
19 April 2011
'Militant Years' launch on May 11
Resistance Books has just published Alan Thornett’s new book on the struggles of workers in building and defending the unions in the huge Cowley car plants in the militant period of the 1960…
19 April 2011
Belfast socialists contest Stormont election
Socialist Democracy, the Irish organisation which support the Fourth International, is backing an independent socialist alternative in the West Belfast constituency for the assembly in the n…
16 April 2011
Public Services White Paper – from public services to market services
In the next few weeks the government is publishing a new White Paper on public services. In February David Cameron wrote an article in the Sunday Telegraph signalling its purpose. ‘We will c…
15 April 2011 · 1 comment
Defend Teacher Pensions! Defend Public Sector Pensions!
image no longer in the archive Roy Wilkes looks forward to the debate on pensions at the National Union of Teachers’ (NUT) conference. There is a strong possibility that NUT members will be …
13 April 2011 · 3 comments
An internationalist transitional programme towards an anti-capitalist Europe: A reply to Costas Lapavitsas
Michel Husson's article on how socialists should react to the Eurozone crisis, published in Socialist Resistance in December, sparked an ongoing discussion, including a critical reply from C…
12 April 2011
NUT members should vote to destroy anti-union laws
The anti union laws introduced by Thatcher and Tebbit in the Eighties and made worse by New Labour have been used repeatedly and with increasing frequency by employers to undermine effective…
9 April 2011
New Pamplet: "Boom to Bust" explains how to fight crisis
This 64 page pamphlet from Socialist Resistance contains a detailed analysis of the economic crisis and offers an ecosocialist action plan to beat it, and the Tories plans to make our class …
7 April 2011 · 1 comment
SR: A new perspective for socialists in Britain
This text was drafted at the end of February and agreed at the SR conference on April 2nd . 1) A new political period The SR conference in April will take place under dramatically different …
5 April 2011
Resistance adopts resolutions on Arab revolutions
Socialist Resistance held a successful and well attended national conference over the weekend which adopted a comprehensive perspectives text to guide our work over the coming months. The co…
1 April 2011
Zionism, imperialism and Arab reaction
Thirty years ago or more, when the Palestinian left organisations were still influential within the PLO, they argued that Palestinians had three enemies: Zionism, imperialism and Arab reacti…
1 April 2011
Workers’ Movement key in Middle East Uprisings
When future historians attempt to analyse the reasons why Hosni Mubarak was finally despatched as Egyptian president they will very probably record that it was not the mass occupation of Tah…
31 March 2011
New Socialist Resistance out now
We are devoting much of this issue of Socialist Resistance to the great revolutionary movement which has only just begun in the Arab world. The events in Egypt, Tunisia, Bahrain, Yemen, Liby…
29 March 2011
Nuclear power means nuclear disaster!
image no longer in the archive Once again the evidence shows that nuclear technology can never be 100% safe. The risks are so frightening that the conclusion is obvious: it is imperative to …
28 March 2011
Massive demonstration in London against government cuts
The largest political demonstration in Britain in a decade happened in London on March 26th. Estimate range from 250 000 to 400 000 people taking part in the March for the Alternative organi…
25 March 2011
Step Up The Struggle!
Socialist Resistance supporters will be handing out this leaflet on March 26th... [issuu layout=http%3A%2F%2Fskin.issuu.com%2Fv%2Flight%2Flayout.xml showflipbtn=true documentid=110323201814-…
24 March 2011 · 4 comments
Militant years in the car industry
Resistance Books has just published Alan Thornett’s new book Militant Years on the struggles of car workers in the Cowley plants and beyond in the militant period of the 1960s and 1970s. You…
23 March 2011
Libya Uncut
The pressing question as to what can be done to support the revolt in Libya as part of a widening and deepening of the revolution in the Arab world is becoming more urgent as Gaddafi launche…
22 March 2011
National petition for "One Million Climate Jobs"
The national petition for "One Million Climate Jobs" has now been launched ahead of Saturday's TUC demonstration. The petition is endorsed by John McDonnell MP, Caroline Lucas MP, Linda Rior…
20 March 2011 ·
Alternatives to the dominant agricultural model
Esther Vivas Neoliberal globalisation's mission to privatise all areas of life, including agriculture and natural resources, threatens to condemn a vast part of the world's population to hun…
19 March 2011 · · 6 comments
How should we vote in the AV referendum?
How should the left vote in the referendum on May 5th on an Alternative Vote (AV) system of election for Westminster? Alan Thornett argues for a yes vote in support of AV as the best option …
18 March 2011
Vigil for Fukushima
2-3pm, Sunday 20th March Whitehall, opposite Downing Street As the world watches in horror at the events unfolding at Fukushima in Japan, please join us in expressing our sympathy with those…
18 March 2011 · 1 comment
Demonstrate v western intervention in Libya
Downing Street • Whitehall • London • Friday 18 March • 5-6pm 10 Reasons to say no to western intervention in Libya By Andrew Murray National Chair, Stop the War Coalition 14 March 2011 The …
16 March 2011 · · 1 comment
The Wedding – why does it matter?
Jane Kelly explains Capitalist economies in crisis, rising unemployment, rebellion in North Africa, climate chaos, how will we get out of all this? I know, let’s have a royal wedding! Apart …
16 March 2011
Japan : an urgent appeal for financial solidarity
15 March 2011 Japan has faced one of the worst ever earthquakes, followed by a devastating tsunami and now a nuclear disaster one cannot yet estimate the gravity of… We are launching an urge…
15 March 2011
“Meltdown: The End of the Age of Greed” by Paul Mason
Verso: 288 pages, £8.99 Reviewed by Patrick Scott Originally published in 2009, this updated version of Paul Mason’s book provides the reader with an overview of the global financial crisis …
15 March 2011
Summer camp attracts internationalist youth
This year’s international revolutionary summer camp in south-west France will be a perfect place to bring together 400 fresh faced, politically hungry, students and young activists. The camp…
14 March 2011
One Wales - A United Nation
Leanne Woods ( centre ), a member of the National Assembly for Wales, is upbeat after the recent referendum showed an appetite for devolving power from London. Leanne blogs here . Yes campai…
12 March 2011 · 12 comments
First and above all, it’s a democratic uprising
SR speaks to Gilbert Achcar about the root causes of the popular revolts in Libya, Egypt, Tunisia and Yemen and the prospects for revolutionary change across the region. His books include Th…
11 March 2011 · 1 comment
Same Old, Same Old at the Top, But ... Irish Election Makes Room for the Left
John Meehan reports from Dublin Writing in the North American online magazine Counterpunch Harry Browne zoned in on two key features on the Irish February 25 2011 General Result : The same o…
10 March 2011
Disabling Lives: the impact of government policies
Bob Williams-Findlay, Disabled Socialist and Civil Rights campaigner, outlines how the Government’s attack on public expenditure and the Welfare State increases the social oppression of disa…
9 March 2011
Coal and Climate Change in Queensland
Julian Coppens looks at the links between a major Australian industry and its impact on the climate. The recent severe flooding in Australia that caused scores of deaths and billions of doll…
8 March 2011 · 14 comments
Green Party takes stand against cuts
The Green Party’s National Campaigns Co-ordinator, Romayne Phoenix reports on the party’s recent conference. Delegates voted to "support national and local campaigns against cuts in public s…
8 March 2011
IWD - Act against the cuts
North Terrace, Trafalgar Square 5-7 PM Come along to Trafalgar Square on March 8th to celebrate International Women’s Day and protest against the outrageous attacks on all areas of public se…
7 March 2011 · 1 comment
Celebrate International Women's Day
Listen to women from across the world - sign up against REDD *Radio program Voz de los Movimientos – Special issue on the 8th of March 2011 (duration: 24’04s). It includes reports from women…
6 March 2011 · 1 comment
Support the Libyan revolution! Gaddafi out!
Fourth International Bureau The shock waves of the Tunisian and Egyptian revolutions continue to spread throughout the Arab world and beyond. For several days, it has been Libya which is at …
6 March 2011
Police confront Basra electricity workers strike
Iraqi police officers prevent protesters from entering the southern electricity directorate building in central Basra March 3, 2011. More than 1000 people, who have been working as employees…
6 March 2011 · 1 comment
Another World Is Possible - It's Called Ecosocialism
Kanya D'Almeida interviewed U.S. scholar and organiser JOEL KOVEL for IPS during Februarys World Social Forum in Dakar Ecosocialist Joel Kovel has played a leading role in the WSF since 2003…
1 March 2011
The renaissance of American labour
Beyond any shadow of a doubt, what is emerging across the United States is the most significant upsurge of the labor movement in a very long time. What has begun in Wisconsin is rapidly spre…
28 February 2011 · 1 comment
Climate chaos and the global ecological crisis
Fourth International One year after the resolution adopted at the 16th World Congress of the Fourth International, the International Committee adopted the following statement . Since the Wor…
26 February 2011 · 2 comments
Permanent revolution in the Arab world
The International Committee of the Fourth International at its annual meeting in late February 2011 unanimously adopted the following statement. 1. The extraordinary victory of the Egyptian …
20 February 2011 · 2 comments
Report from the battle of Wisconsin
This is a report from a Madison comrade, who has been heavily involved with the protests there. He makes great observations on the culture of the protests, how such movements are organized, …
17 February 2011 · 1 comment
Cambridge takes to the streets
On Saturday 12th February over 400 people marched through the centre of Cambridge in a noisy demonstration, organised by Cambridgeshire Against the Cuts, protesting against the cuts being pr…
16 February 2011
South African rebellion comes to Grahamstown
The rebellion of the poor has been spreading from town to town, from squatter camp to squatter camp, since 2004. Last week it arrived in Grahamstown. There is no third force, political party…
15 February 2011
Our alternative to 'good' and 'bad' capitalism
"Can capitalism solve the debt crisis?" was the question that Marxist economist Özlem Onaran discussed at a recent Socialist Resistance public meeting. Three possible resolutions for the the…
15 February 2011 · 4 comments
New book - Militant years by Alan Thornett
Alan Thornett's book "Militant years: Car workers struggles in Britain in the 60s and 70s" is a unique account of trade union and political struggles in the Morris Motors (later British Leyl…
15 February 2011
European conference to fight cuts and privatisation
Call for a European Conference against Austerity, Cuts and Privatisation and in Defence of the Welfare State A new movement has risen in Europe. In Greece in May a series of general strikes …
14 February 2011 · 1 comment
Egypt: The Clash of Two Spirits
image no longer in the archive The Mubarak regime—sans the former President himself—has entered into its “Greatest Hits” phase, offering up figures who have been a dominant fixture in elite …
14 February 2011
Women on the frontline
Terry Conway spoke at a recent Birmingham SR Forum on the impact of cuts on women; the video is at the bottom of this post. The Condems are attempting to impose cuts on working class people …
13 February 2011 · · 4 comments
Some thoughts on the People’s Convention
Alan Thornett reports that Saturday’s People’s convention — jointly organised by the Right To Work Campaign (RtWC), the Labour Representation Committee (LRC) and the Disabled People’s Agains…
12 February 2011 · 5 comments
Mubarak Gone: It Is Vital the People Not Stop
One thing is clear from the events of the last 18 days: the power of the people is now back on the world stage in a dramatic fashion. What has transpired in Egypt is nothing less than the la…
12 February 2011
Disabled people at the sharp end
Bob Williams-Findlay of Disabled People Against the Cuts will be speaking at a Birmingham Socialist Resistance Forum on Tuesday 15th February, 7.30pm Bennetts Bar, Bennetts Hill, Central Bir…
10 February 2011 · 31 comments
SR greets France's New Anticapitalist Party
The strike movement against pension reforms that swept France last year was an inspiration to socialists and trade-union activists in Britain. Although the movement was unable to stop the vo…
9 February 2011
Feb 17: London meeting on Arab Revolutions
THURSDAY 17 FEBRUARY, 7pm Middle East in revolt: WHAT NEXT FOR THE ARAB REVOLUTIONS ? SOAS, Brunei Gallery, Room B102 (off Russell Square) Speakers: Adam Hanieh, SOAS John Rees, Counterfire …
9 February 2011 · 1 comment
Review: The Global Fight for Climate Justice
The climate change debates need the perspective brought by The Global Fight for Climate Justice . Amidst contention over the science and mechanisms to mitigate or adapt, few are willing to f…
8 February 2011 · 2 comments
12 February: Global day of action for Egypt
In solidarity, in defiance: global day of action for Egypt, 12 February Saturday 12 February 2011, 12pm to 2pm Trafalgar Square, London Celebrate the enormous achievements of the Eygptian pe…
8 February 2011
'The Invisible Hand' - an inside view of Ben Ali's Tunisia
US-Secretary Powell with Zine El Abidine Ben Ali, President of the Republic of Tunisia. The following was written by a Tunisian academic now living in the UK who wishes for the moment to rem…
4 February 2011 · 2 comments
Whither Egypt? Gilbert Achcar explains the movement longing for democracy
Do you think that Mubarak's pledge on February 1st not to contest the next election represented a victory for the movement, or was it just a trick to calm down the masses as on the very next…
3 February 2011 · 2 comments
Can capitalism solve the debt crisis?
In the name of ‘deficit reduction’, the ConDem coalition has launched a reactionary onslaught against all working people in this country. They want to make us pay for the economic crisis tha…
1 February 2011
SR's "Days of Rage" explains Tunisia and Egypt revolutions
Socialist Resistance has a new pamphlet on the revolutions in Egypt and Tunisia. You can read it below. For a copy, send three first class stamps and your address to our office.
31 January 2011
Tunisia and Egypt: the revolutions are underway
image no longer in the archive Statement by the Bureau of the Fourth International “The most indubitable feature of a revolution is the direct interference of the masses in historical events…
29 January 2011 · 3 comments
Life of Brian alive and well at the NSSN conference
Just to add a few points about the special NSSN conference on Saturday January 22 nd called to debate anti-cuts campaigning. It was not a pleasant experience. As other reports have indicated…
29 January 2011
Majority of NSSN Officers resign en-bloc
image no longer in the archive At a meeting immediately following Saturday 22nd January's NSSN anti-cuts conference, the majority of NSSN (National Shop Stewards Network) national officers-a…
28 January 2011 · 5 comments
Sign up in support of the Tunisian revolution!
An "International Declaration of Support for the Tunisian Revolution" is being supported by the Fourth International. To add your name, please send an e-mail with surnames, first names, posi…
27 January 2011 · 1 comment
SR students say: Let's go Tunisia style!
27 January 2011
Greater Manchester Against Cuts Hits the Road!
Over 120 activists from all ten local authority areas, attended Saturday's Greater Manchester Against Cuts Conference at the Friends Meeting House in Manchester. The mood of the Conference, …
25 January 2011 · 1 comment
How do we stop the cuts?
Bob Whitehead wrote this for the site of Birmingham Socialist Resistance . How do we stop the cuts? There is no realistic answer outside of huge mobilisations that unite service providers an…
24 January 2011
Build the week of action against the cuts
Download the Coalition of Resistance's leaflet for the February week of action against the cuts by clicking on this link
24 January 2011
Students: Occupy to win!
The battle against fees and cuts is far from over. In fact it has just begun. Last term’s demonstrations divided the Lib Dems and shook the Coalition Government. Yet the cuts have hardly sta…
23 January 2011 · 1 comment
Viva Palestina responds to Israel's false claims on Mavi Marmara massacre
Today, Israel has released a report into its actions on the Mavi Marmara last year, when the ship - carrying aid as part of a flotilla to Gaza - was attacked by Israel, leading to the deaths…
22 January 2011
Beheading the dragon- popular revolution topples Tunisian tyrant
This statement on the revolutionary situation in Tunisia is from Al Mounadil-a , an Arabic-language website of the Fourth International, published by the Moroccan section. After 23 years of …
22 January 2011
Tunisian T shirt
TUNISIAN REVOLUTION MARCHES TO THE SOUND OF POETRY – Philosophy Football T shirt offer “ If, one day, a people desires to live, then fate will answer their call.” Abul-Qasim Al-Shabi Tunisia…
22 January 2011 · 2 comments
Bankers’ Bonuses: Parasitic Theft
Anger has rightly resurfaced on bankers’ bonuses in a week when two of the US banks with a significant presence in the UK announced they would be paying bonuses to their staff of over $30 bi…
22 January 2011
The people of Europe should audit the debt
Eric Toussaint of the Campaign for the Cancellation of Third World Debt (CADTM) was a member of the Audit Committee set up by the president of Ecuador, Rafael Correa, in order to avoid a lar…
21 January 2011
Intellectuals ask writers to boycott Sri Lanka festival
Reporters Without Borders and Journalists for Democracy in Sri Lanka (JDS), a network of exiled Sri Lankan journalists, announce the launch of an international appeal already signed by Noam …
21 January 2011 · 2 comments
Socialist Resistance launches free newspaper
Socialist Resistance, the Fourth International in Britain, has launched a free newspaper. The action update is being given away by activists across the country to help mobilise students, tra…
17 January 2011 · 2 comments
Download the new Socialist Resistance student bulletin
Get your copy of our student bulletin here . (Apologies that the link earlier was broken. It's now fixed.)
17 January 2011 · 6 comments
Coalition of Resistance National Committee - a good start
Around 80 people attended the first meeting the CoR national Committee after November's founding conference. There was a good spread of people there representing unions, local anti-cuts grou…
17 January 2011 · 1 comment
Ben Ali is a murderer and Sarkozy his accomplice
Statement by the New Anti-Capitalist Party (Nouveau Parti Anticapitaliste) France Tunisia’s President Zine al-Abidine Ben Ali has stepped down after 23 years in power, amid widespread protes…
12 January 2011 · 1 comment
Ed Who?
From a restricted and desperately poor field of candidates, Labour chose Ed Miliband as its leader last autumn: then he (and Labour) more or less disappeared. Why? Because for all the effort…
12 January 2011 · 1 comment
Heinz workers in Wigan to stage further strikes over pay!
Outcome of struggle will have big bearing on the development of similar fights by private sector workers elsewhere in the UK in the next period. We need to build the maximum solidarity to ma…
10 January 2011 · 1 comment
Far Right threatens Irish meeting in London
The Irish Republican Prisoners Support Group has announced that its Bloody Sunday anniversary meeting in London on 31 January, to support political status for Irish Republican prisoners, has…
9 January 2011 · 5 comments
Students - Radicalism works and wins
James Haywood, communication and campaigns officer at Goldsmiths' College spoke to Socialist Resistance about the student mobilisations. SR: Coming from Goldsmiths’ radical student movement,…
5 January 2011
1968 and all that - déjà vu all over again?
Sean Thompson reflects on his time in the 1968 student movement and explains how today’s is different. In the hazy golden glow of hindsight, Wordsworth seemed to have been writing about us i…
4 January 2011 · 4 comments
Portugal: the prospect of a full bailout and more austerity looms in 2011
Ralph Blake writes: A full financial bailout of Portugal involving the European Central Bank (ECB) and the International Monetary Fund (IMF) looks set to happen in the first half of 2011. Th…