2015
29 December 2015 · 1 comment
Against sexual violence and rape, state terror and communalist violence
Soma Marik is an Indian feminist and activist in West Bengal. This is an edited version of a speech she gave both at a press conference on December 4 2015 after the Annual march against viol…
29 December 2015
Russia targets Syrian hospitals on Xmas day
In an extremely worrying escalation of their incessant bombing campaign, Russian war planes struck a number of medical facilities, in a series of deliberate attacks. From around 09:00am on 2…
22 December 2015
Against dictatorships, imperialist aggression and Daesh.
We fight dictatorships, imperialist aggression and Daesh. We reject the politics of “national security”, racism and austerity. It’s time to mobilise! Over recent months, people across the Mi…
22 December 2015
Podemos at 20 % brings hope for change - two party system crumbles
Dave Kellaway of Hackney Left Unity looks at the situation. Si se puede! Yes we can. Podemos was the big story of Sunday's general elections in the Spanish state. They were the main force br…
14 December 2015 · · 1 comment
Gilbert Achcar on Russian, British, American, Saudi and Iranian intervention in Syria
In this pugnacious interview on Russia Today, Gilbert Achcar explains how Russian support is crucial to keeping the butcher Assad in power. He's equally forthright about the role of American…
7 December 2015
Crisis and contradiction: Marxist Perspectives on Latin America in the Global Political economy
Edited by Susan Spronk and Jeffery Webber Historial Materialism book series 79 published by BRILL (Netherlands) €129.00 Reviewed by Dave Kellaway The rise, fall and rise of the Latin America…
4 December 2015 · 1 comment
A TALE OF TWO MASSACRES
Geoff Ryan explores. 130 largely young people were brutally murdered in Paris by ISIL: this massacre saw unprecedented expressions of solidarity throughout much of the world. Photos of many …
3 December 2015 ·
“Art is not the end but the beginning” “If my art has nothing to do with people and their suffering then what is art for?”
Dave Kellaway reviews of the Ai Weiwei exhibition at the Royal Academy London (until the 13th December) You see tons of steel rods intricately laid out across most of the floor area. They mi…
2 December 2015
MINERS STAND TOGETHER STATEMENT BY THE NUM
The National Union of Mineworkers has issued a strong statement on the Ukrainian question as a rebuttal to a number of smears against their union. That any section of the labour movement wou…
28 November 2015 ·
The 13 November attacks in Paris: the terror of the Islamic State, the state of emergency in France, our responsibilities
By Pierre Rousset and François Sabado Solidarity with the victims! November 13 represents a change in the national and international political situation. The Islamic State (IS, Daesh) has st…
23 November 2015 ·
Junior doctors – fighting to defend our NHS
John Lister reports: The stunning scale of the turnout and vote for strike action by 30,000 junior doctors, mobilised into action to oppose the new contract which Jeremy Hunt has threatened …
23 November 2015
Bankocracy - a review
Pete Green, Left Unity Economic Policy Commission convenor, reviews Bankocracy by Eric Toussaint, just published by Resistance Books and IIRE. As I was preparing this review a couple of item…
16 November 2015
Solidarity with the victims of terrorism, no to war and racism
Here we publish an article from the NPA, Noveau Parti Anti-Capitaliste, published on Monday 16th November : The horrific attacks that took place in Paris on Friday night left 129 dead and 35…
13 November 2015
Building the Paris COP21 climate protests
Alan Thornett writes on the mobilisations around the coming climate summit. The pace of climate change is relentless. The projected date for the arrival of a 2°C rise in the global average s…
8 November 2015
Calais migrants : the shame on Britain's doorstep
Judith Arkwright reports from Calais On October 8th I made my second visit to the Calais migrant camp to take clothes and tents and to offer my services as a volunteer. When you first arrive…
1 November 2015
Chinese Money Makes the World Go Round
The picture shows Hong Kong activists holding a support rally for striking workers in Yue Yuen (Lennon Wing-Dah Wong) Some on the left, are so impressed with China’s rise as an economic powe…
30 October 2015
All out against the strike-breakers charter
Simon Hardy, a Right to Strike supporter from London, argues that it is urgent we get mobilising against the Trade Union Bill The British workers’ movement is sleep walking towards total dis…
22 October 2015 · 2 comments
The Momentum is with Corbyn
Jeremy Corbyn’s triumph in the contest to become leader of the Labour Party on September 12 was a red letter day. The scale of his success and the thousands of people – especially young peop…
22 October 2015 · 1 comment
What does Russia want in its war in Syria?
Gilbert Achcar, Lebanese socialist and anti-war activist, spoke with Ilya Budraitskis , an activist in the Russian Socialist Movement and member of the OpenLeft.Ru editorial board, about why…
22 October 2015
Syria: Stop the bombing – Assad must go
Fred Leplat, a supporter of Socialist Resistance and of the Syria Solidarity Movement, reviews the situation in Syria as Putin intervenes in Syria. The war in Syria took a dramatic turn on t…
19 October 2015 · · 1 comment
I’d rather be a rebel than a slave
Liam Mac Uaid reviews Suffragette The natural response to learning that Helena Bonham-Carter is playing a leading role in a film about the suffragettes is a momentary panic that it's going t…
13 October 2015
Statement on Ankara bombings
Socialist Resistance offers our deepest condolences to the relatives, friends and comrades of the 128 people killed in the shocking double bomb blast at the peace demonstration in Ankara on …
6 October 2015 · · 1 comment
Matt Damon, Martian ecologist
Liam Mac Uaid In Capital (volume 3), Karl Marx observed: “In London . . . they can do nothing better with the excrement produced by 4 1/2 million people than pollute the Thames with it, at m…
29 September 2015 · 1 comment
Turkey resumes its war against the Kurds
After two years of de facto ceasefire, Turkey has resumed its aerial attacks against the PKK (Kurdish Workers Party) fighters on its borders, but also launched a new wave of repression again…
28 September 2015
Imperialism, Globalisation and Climate change - the video pt 1
London Socialist Resistance organised a day school on Imperialism, Globalisation and Climate change on Saturday 26 September. Here we publish the videos from the first session with Lebanese …
23 September 2015 ·
Tsipras wins a pyrrhic victory
Alan Thornett Alex Tsipras has won a surprisingly strong victory in the Greek elections. The opinion polls, that had predicted a close vote, were wide of the mark and Syriza comfortably led …
18 September 2015
What’s going on in the student movement?
Hannah Webb, National Campaign Against Fees and Cuts activist and member of NUS National Executive Committee reports: A Brief History Following the defeats of 2010, the student movement foun…
16 September 2015 · · 4 comments
The capitulation of Tsipras leadership and the role of ‘left europeanism’
Alan Thornett A crucial debate is taking place on the left, inside and outside of Greece, following the dramatic capitulation of the Tsipras leadership to the austerity agenda of the EU in r…
13 September 2015 · 5 comments
Jez we did – a political earthquake
Socialist Resistance enthusiastically welcomes the election of Jeremy Corbyn as leader of the Labour Party. Such a result seemed inconceivable after the Tory victory on May 7 and represents …
12 September 2015
Turkey - urgent call for international action
Turkey is increasingly drifting into a civil war. Politics of violence have escalated after the general elections of June 7 led by the AKP provisional government. Today, the peace and negoti…
12 September 2015
Immigration and Austerity: only connect
Bridget Anderson COMPAS, University of Oxford There have been two big shifts in British public debate in recent months. The first is the growing discontent with the politics of austerity, mo…
11 September 2015 · 1 comment
The Islamic State, or the main reason for the millions of refugees from Syria?
Joseph Daher challenges what is being said about Syria: The vast majority of television programs, articles and so called experts talking about millions of refugees from Syria have the same d…
8 September 2015 ·
Numerous guilty actors for Aylan and the million of others…
Joseph Daher Europe has been rocked in recent weeks by two successive tragedies that have shaken public opinion. Firstly, on August 28, the bodies of 71 people, probably Syrian, were found i…
24 August 2015
An Explosion of Bureaucratic Capital : On the Tianjin Blast
“Many intermediary organizations are either government-run, semi-government-run, or joint ventures of the government and private sector. Au Loong Yu On the 19th August, 2015, the Xinhua News…
8 August 2015 · · 1 comment
Fourth International youth camp
Michael Chessum reports on a week of politics, self-organisation and glorious sunshine. The 32nd Fourth International Youth Summer Camp took place between the 27th July and the 2nd August ne…
8 August 2015
Knowing Construction
Peter Kennard: Unofficial War Artist Imperial War Museum Reviewed by Jane Kelly “The camera… on the one hand extends our comprehension of the necessities that rule our lives; on the other, i…
5 August 2015 ·
“One Nation” blues
Piers Mostyn Much has been made of the Tories unexpected victory in the May 2015 election. But the real story was Labour’s defeat, with its failure to capitalise on the widespread hostility …
3 August 2015 ·
Labour’s economic outlook was key to their defeat
Susan Pashkoff One of the significant reasons why Labour was roundly defeated in the general election on May 7 was the weakness of their arguments about the economy. Rather than putting forw…
1 August 2015 · · 1 comment
Whats in store for the NHS?
Harry Sloan There was an almost audible groan of most of 1 million-plus NHS staff at the news of the election of a majority Tory government, amid near-universal expectation that this would t…
31 July 2015 · 2 comments
Corbyn: a remarkable campaign
The Corbyn campaign is a remarkable phenomenon. He actually stands a very good chance of winning the Labour leadership unless the Labour establishment can turn around the tide over the next …
30 July 2015 ·
Two anniversaries that wont be celebrated
Geoff Ryan 2015 is a year in which many anniversaries are taking place in Britain. Magna Carta (1215), Agincourt (1415), Waterloo (1815), Gallipoli and the sinking of the Lusitania (1915), D…
29 July 2015 ·
Climate Change - To Paris and through Paris
John Rae 2015 was always going to be a crucial year for climate change. The 5th report of the International Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) published last year confirmed that global warming i…
28 July 2015 ·
Scrap the Greece-Israel defence pact!
Roland Rance While attention has been focussed, quite rightly, on the browbeating and bullying of the Greek government to agree to the terms of the EU ultimatum, another event of momentous i…
27 July 2015 · · 1 comment
The case for PR after May 7
Alan Thornett Since the election there has been a debate around how the Tories emerged with an unexpected overall majority. One reason is that they demonised the SNP and raised the spectre o…
20 July 2015 · 1 comment
Dreaming in Technicolour
Phil Hearse, 19 July 2015 It was inevitable that the final deal struck between the Syriza government and the Eurogroup should be the subject of intense debate and controversy in the internat…
17 July 2015 ·
Remembering Srebrenica: 20 Years After the Massacre
Geoff Ryan Last Saturday (11th July) all sorts of ‘worthies’ gathered in Srebrenica on the 20th anniversary of the massacre of over 8,000 Bosniaks (Bosnian Muslims) by Bosnian Serb forces un…
15 July 2015 ·
Creditors take control of Greece
Alan Thornett We have seen the total humiliation of the people of Greece. After 17 hours of talks over Sunday night the IMF and EU elites have inflicted a comprehensive and humiliating defea…
6 July 2015 · · 4 comments
Greece: massive victory for the No campaign
Alan Thornett The European elites are in shock. In defiance of massive intimidation the people of Greece have delivered a huge 61% No vote in the referendum. It is a stunning result. It is a…
3 July 2015 ·
Solidarity with a Greek No vote on Sunday
Alan Thornett We are two days away from the Greek referendum. The Banks and the European elites are straining every nerve not only to win a Yes vote on Sunday but to destroy Syriza, the gove…
29 June 2015 · 2 comments
Tsipras calls referendum on Greek debt crisis
As we go to press, Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras has made the dramatic announcement that the latest batch of draconian austerity demands from its creditors —the IMF the ECB and the Eur…
27 June 2015 · 1 comment
Remembering François Vercammen
It was with great sadness that Socialist Resistance members heard of the death of François Vercammen, a Belgian leader of the Fourth International (FI), at age of 69 after a long struggle wi…
26 June 2015 · 1 comment
On the brink of Grexit?
As we go to press, deadlock over the Greek debt crisis remain unresolved, despite three emergency EU summits over the past few days. Greece, therefore, remains not only on the verge of defau…
22 June 2015
Irreverent defiance is part of the answer
One home-made banner on the Saturday June 20 demonstration against austerity seemed to put into words the inarticulate howl of anguish of millions. In colourful letters it read "fuck the fuc…
20 June 2015 ·
Greece on the verge of default
Alan Thornett Greece is on the verge of defaulting on its debt to the IMF which is due by the end of June. Negotiations broke down on Friday and an EU summit has been called for Monday in an…
20 June 2015 ·
The election Labour threw away
In an article for the forthcoming edition of Socialist Resistance Susan Moore looks at the impact of the election and why it turned out as it did The result of the British general election w…
19 June 2015 ·
TTIP stumbles in Strasbourg and Washington
Gus Fagan reports: On 10 June our elected representatives in Strasbourg turned up to vote on TTIP but were told by their leaders that they couldn't do that just yet. Maybe in three months. A…
13 June 2015 · 3 comments
Racially polarised election victory for Labour
Andy Stowe draws some positive conclusions from Rabina Khan’s result in the Tower Hamlets mayoral election. It was tactical voting from Tories, UKIP, Lib Dems and the marginal candidates tha…
11 June 2015
Why does the government want Combined Authorities?
Richard Hatcher answers some pertinent questions about this and asks others. The neoliberal transformation of local government in England is taking place before our eyes. Not only massive cu…
9 June 2015 · · 10 comments
What position should the left take on the EU referendum?
Alan Thornett Following the election and Cameron’s pledge to the right, there will be an in out referendum on Britain’s membership of the EU at least by the end of 2017, and possibly in 2016…
8 June 2015 ·
How should we understand the FIFA scandal?
The scandal which has broken at FIFA over the last few weeks –culminating in the arrest of seven FIFA officials in Switzerland and the resignation of its president Sepp Blatter – has focused…
4 June 2015
Where we are with TTIP
Negotiations for the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP) were begun in June 2013 and have continued since then in secret. During that time there has been a lot of public de…
2 June 2015
LGBT rights in Ireland: A beacon of liberation for all
May 22 was a truly historic day. The population of the Irish state, long seen as a bastion of Catholic conservatism, vote in an overwhelming majority to amend the constitution to support LBG…
1 June 2015 ·
Scotland after May 7
Murray Smith The day after the May 7 election, George Kerevan, newly elected SNP MP for East Lothian, was walking through his constituency. He was approached by a group of young working-clas…
29 May 2015
Denmark – radical left faces snap general election
Denmark faces a snap general election on Thursday 18th June, reports Harry Blackwell, after the minority government of Social Democratic Party prime minister, Helle Thorning-Schmid, dissolve…
28 May 2015 ·
Left makes huge gains in regional and local elections in the Spanish State
Ahead of a General Election in Spain that must be held before the end of the year, the ruling duopoly of the Spanish Conservative (PP) and Socialist (PSOE) Parties was disrupted last weekend…
20 May 2015
The Orange card trumps the Green, Austerity wins the election
John Mc Anulty analyses the Westminster vote in the North of Ireland A local writer once remarked that the new Northern Ireland reminded him of nothing so much as the old Northern Ireland. T…
13 May 2015 · · 4 comments
A Catastrophic British election result, where do we go from here?
by Susan Pashkoff Like everyone else, I got it wrong. I was expecting a Tory minority government propped up by the Democratic Unionist Party ( DUP ) and the UK Independence Party ( UKIP ) if…
9 May 2015 · 3 comments
The implications of the election result
A combination of a fear campaign by the Tories and deep flaws in Labours stance produced a slim Tory majority that no one (including the Tories) expected. The opinion polls were right about …
7 May 2015
Islamophobia: Racialisation of political resistance
An electoral court ruling against Lutfur Rahman in the London borough of Tower Hamlets throws into relief how the British establishment uses and fuels Islamophobia today. The liberal white p…
6 May 2015
Standing for the NHS
Jane Kelly from Socialist Resistance interviewed Rebecca Fox, the National Health Action Party's candidate in Camberwell and Peckham in South London. How did the NHA party decide where to st…
6 May 2015 · 2 comments
KAGARLITSKY, THE WAR AND POLITICAL CORRUPTION
We publish below a critique of Boris Kagarlitsky by Volodymyr Zadyraka. It was originally published on the Ukrainian left-wing website Nihilist and has been translated from Russian by Hrytzk…
5 May 2015 ·
Protesting rape culture in India
Soma Marik A historic rally involving women men and trans activists took place protesting the whole of rape culture and not just a few cases. The proposal for the demonstration grew out of a…
4 May 2015 · · 1 comment
Left Unity’s General Election challenge
Veronica Fagan The forthcoming general election held on May 7 will be the first since Left Unity was launched in December 2013 as a broad left party to the left of Labour. As such it will be…
4 May 2015 ·
The biodiversity crisis and the environmentalist left
Alan Thornett (This is an expanded version of a workshop presentation in the ecology stream at the Historical Materialism conference in London in November 2014.) In this presentation I want …
30 April 2015 ·
The election result could trigger a governmental crisis
Alan Thornett There seems to be only one certainty in this election and that is that Labour is going to get hammered in Scotland by the Scottish National Party (SNP) —in fact they are facing…
29 April 2015 · 1 comment
Tower Hamlets Strikes Back!
A further contribution from the blog of Left Unity- Trade Union and Socialist candidate Glyn Robbins on developments in Tower Hamlets following last weeks court judgement: The following are …
29 April 2015 · 2 comments
What happened in Tower Hamlets
Socialist Resistance is reprinting the blog post from Glyn Robbins, Left Unity-Trade Unionist and Socialist Candidate in Bethnal Green and Bow on May 7 on last weeks court judgement on Tower…
27 April 2015
Should Greece Pay Back Its Debt?
Financial speculators are nervously asking whether Greece will pay its debt or default. Political leaders from Europe to the US and the IMF are telling the Greek government to leave aside it…
23 April 2015
Aiming 2 b Scotland's Socialist Party
Sandra Webster reports on the way the Scottish Socialist Party decided to approach the forthcoming General Election after the independence referendum last autumn. After the referendum, the S…
16 April 2015 · · 4 comments
The neoliberalisation of the city: the transformation of city centres and city councils
by Richard Hatcher The decades from Thatcher onwards have seen the neoliberal transformation of cities in Britain. London epitomises the neoliberal global city, but London is not typical of …
8 April 2015 · 6 comments
The rise of the Green parties in Britain
Membership and support for the Green Parties across Britain - the Green Party of England and Wales (GPEW) and the Scottish Green Party (SGP) - has surged dramatically. The membership of the …
8 April 2015
Protest French courts threat to student activists !
A French socialist student from Toulouse has been threatened with prison for demonstrating against the death of a young environmental activist, killed last October when French riot police la…
30 March 2015 · · 7 comments
An election Labour should win hands down
Alan Thornett As parliament is dissolve at midnight tonight and the official campaign is poised to be launched, Labour and the Tories remain more or less neck and neck in the polls. It’s sti…
30 March 2015 ·
Migration - an election issue
Bill MacKeith reports Immigration detention centres erupt In the second week of March people fought the biggest-ever protest in UK immigration detention centres. Hunger strikes and other mas…
29 March 2015 · 30 comments
Feminism and transgender: Why is there a debate?
At the author's request this article has been removed from the site. Socialist Resistance has made a statement about it: Socialist Resistance, feminism and trans inclusion .
29 March 2015 · 20 comments
Socialist Resistance, feminism and trans inclusion
On March 22 the Socialist Resistance website posted a piece by Victoria Smith entitled Feminists and Transgender – why is there a debate. There was inadequate collective discussion around th…
25 March 2015 · 31 comments
Feminism & transgender liberation: a reply
Our thanks go to Evie Embrechts, a socialist feminist in Belgium, who has allowed us to republish her reply to a controversial criticism of "trans politics". Sometimes we are blessed with be…
23 March 2015 ·
Israel voted for boycott, divestment and sanctions
The victory of Binyamin Netanyahu in Israel’s general election on 17 March, on an overtly racist and uncompromising platform, has dismayed western leaders, and forced many “liberal Zionists”…
18 March 2015 · 13 comments
Students occupy universities against neo-liberal austerity
Ahead of the British General Election in May, students have occupied a prominent London University building to protest against austerity and the role of the university, reports Harry Blackwe…
18 March 2015 · 9 comments
South Africa: Malema, the ANC and the unions
Niall Reddy of the Democratic Left Front inside the United Front for Socialism spoke in London on 17 March 2015 about the rapidly developing situation in the South African workers' movement.…
17 March 2015 · 1 comment
Feminisation: Halloumi, Souvlakis
Yanis Varoufakis, Greece’s ‘ erratic Marxist ’ Finance Minister, is being represented in line with a number of different stereotypes as part of the ideological response to, and sometimes eve…
16 March 2015 ·
Why is there a need for 24 hour childcare?
The idea of accessing 24 hour childcare is an old one writes Susan Pashkoff … the questions that arise are why this is an important issue and why we should we be advocating for it? The next …
14 March 2015 · 1 comment
Sinn Fein under pressure from Irish workers
On Friday, March 13th six unions representing public sector workers in the north of Ireland took joint strike action to resist the austerity programme being pushed through by the Sinn Fein /…
12 March 2015
Why I'm standing for TUSC
Glyn Robbins is contesting the Bethnal Green and Bow seat for the Trade Union and Socialist Coalition (TUSC) in the upcoming general election. He has been active in Respect and has been prom…
12 March 2015 · 2 comments
Political Challenges Today : Perspectives and tasks for SR
This text was agreed at the SR NC in October for the SR conference on February 7th, where it was adopted. Some sections were updated in January or February and where this is the case it is n…
11 March 2015 · · 1 comment
The Ukrainian workers are willing to fight
"Meetings like this are important because we may not be alive for very much longer." Those were the chilling words of Yuriy Samoylov, Chair of the NGPU (Independent Trade Union of Miners Ukr…
7 March 2015 · · 6 comments
London climate demonstration shows new radical mood
Around 25 000 people marched through central London on March 7th to protest against government inertia in dealing with climate change writes Liam Mac Uaid . It follows last September's large…
3 March 2015 · · 11 comments
Syriza at the crossroads
Alan Thornett looks at the developments of the last week and their implications: The new Greek government, after being threatened and intimidated by the ECB, the IMF, and the EU elites, has …
24 February 2015 · 1 comment
Greece - there is no grand strategy
After Greece’s agreement with the European Union – with the aid programme being extended in exchange for the continuation of structural reforms – the new government has arrived at an impasse…
22 February 2015
HSBC - Highly Suspicious British Company
Eric Tousaint of the CADTM and author of Bankocracy (to be published in May 2015), writes about the record of HSBC and its CEO Stephen Green. Leaked HSBC files, according to the Guardian 'de…
21 February 2015
“GOING THROUGH THE CHANGE!” NATIONAL FILM TOUR
Prepare for Fireworks! A film by National Women Against Pit Closures. Download the flyer here . “No, not a film about the menopause though god knows we could all say a thing or two about tha…
18 February 2015
NHS For Sale: Myths, Lies & Deception
Jacky Davis, John Lister, David Wrigley , Merlin Press, London 2015, £10.95, available from www.keepournhspublic.com (all proceeds to KONP). Reviewed by Liz Peretz This is a much needed guid…
11 February 2015 · 1 comment
A radical left party forms a government in Greece
Syriza’s stunning victory is a remarkable event. For the first time in generations we have a government of the radical left in Europe that makes as its starting point the defence of the oppr…
11 February 2015
Time to Act - March 7 2015
Momentum is building across the country for the Time to Act on Climate Change demonstration in London on March 7. More and more people can see that climate change is already affecting millio…
8 February 2015 ·
From Selma to Ferguson
Dave Kellaway reviews the new film about a key moment in the American Civil Rights movement. Movements of the oppressed and of working people have always treasured the names of the places wh…
5 February 2015 · 1 comment
International camp for young environmentalists, feminists and socialists
All across Europe people have started planning for the United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP 21) in December in Paris. After the failure of the COP19 in Warsaw, environmental NGOs ha…
31 January 2015 · · 9 comments
INTERSECTIONALITY: LESSONS FROM RECENT LEFT HISTORY
The crisis over sexual violence inside the SWP provoked an attempt by some of those involved to try to explain what happened then, and since in some of the new organisations that emerged fro…
28 January 2015 · 1 comment
After Syriza’s victory in Greece: the challenges ahead
With news of the extent of Syriza’s victory still incoming, Stathis Kouvelakis analysises the 2015 Greek elections on the morning of Monday 26 January. Syriza’s electoral triumph has brought…
27 January 2015 · 3 comments
SYRIZA's economic options
This election of SYRIZA is undoubtedly a defeat for the politics of austerity of the Troika and the European right writes Özlem Onaran . It is a moment of victory for SYRIZA and the social m…
27 January 2015 · 2 comments
New period for the left in Europe
It’s not every day that passers-by in London’s Camden Town can hear the strains of the socialist anthem ‘The Internationale’ drifting across the street on a Sunday evening, reports Harry Bla…
26 January 2015 · · 5 comments
SYRIZA and the bleedin’ obvious
If SYRIZA has come to power on a programme of public beheadings, banning women from driving and torturing its critics, it may have received a slightly warmer welcome from the governments of …
25 January 2015 · · 3 comments
The Dynamic of Revolution in South Africa - a review
Bobby Wilcox reviews ‘The Dynamic of Revolution in South Africa’, a collection of works by the South African Marxist I.B. Tabata. Bobby was a prisoner on Robben island and a President of the…
24 January 2015
Lambeth College strike gets results
Lecturers at Lambeth College in south London have won significant concessions in their struggle against cuts in pay and leave entitlement and increases in working hours. The UCU branch state…
15 January 2015
Terror, cartoons and Islamophobia
This is a statement from Socialist Resistance on the murders in France. Four people were murdered in a Paris supermarket by Amedy Coulibaly because they were Jewish. Said and Cherif Kouachi …
15 January 2015
Sri Lanka election: butcher Rajapaksa ousted from office
Sirisena and Rajapaksa In a bitterly fought election in Sri Lanka marred with violence and corruption, where one of the highest number of voters participated, South Asia's longest reigning e…
14 January 2015 · · 6 comments
Greek Elections and the dangers of Pyrrhic Victories
The upcoming Greek elections on January 25th could shift Europe in a positive direction writes Susan Pashkoff . Following the failure to elect a President in Greece, Samaras was forced into …
10 January 2015 · 8 comments
National unity is a trap say French socialists
The French government has called national unity demonstrations on Sunday 11 January in response to the murders in Paris. In its statement the Nouveau Parti anticapitaliste explains why it wo…
7 January 2015
Greek Election: London demonstrators greet Angela Merkel; British Greens support Syriza
London demonstrators greet Angela Merkel Several dozen demonstrators gave a noisy welcome to German Chancellor, Angela Merkel, when she and Prime Minister David Cameron visited the British M…
7 January 2015 · · 10 comments
Solidarity with Charlie Hebdo staff
I lived near where the attack took place and, as an avid reader of Charlie Hebdo during my five years there, I felt sick in the stomach when I heard the news today coming out of Paris writes…
6 January 2015 ·
Vote Sinn Féin, get austerity
Sinn Féin’s attempt to ride two horses in different directions on either side of the Irish border is becoming increasingly untenable writes Declan O'Neill . South of the border it is trying …
6 January 2015 ·
The Golden Trap
Jane Kelly reviews The Golden Dream, a film by Diego Quemada-Díez, a Spanish director, which follows four young people, all played by first time actors, across Latin America to their goal in…
5 January 2015 ·
Paddington goes where ‘liberal’ politicians fear to tread
Despite positive reviews from the likes of Peter Bradshaw and Mark Kermode, not to mention a glowing recommendation from a friend who is something of a cinema buff, I still approached Paddin…
3 January 2015 · 5 comments
What's happening in the PCS?
Martin Boyd, a supporter of Socialist Resistance who is active in the PCS union, shares his concerns about what's happening in it. For quite some time rumours and queries about the state of …