2018
31 December 2018 · Labour Party
In and against the state
Labour needs to develop a socialist strategy that goes beyond a single election manifesto. Leo Panitch and Sam Gindin look at the challenge of state transformation Just a few years ago, it w…
28 December 2018 · · Climate Change
Another deal on Climate change; another Conference of Procrastination
As the coal dust settled on COP 24 ( Conference of Parties for its full title) in Katowice Poland, the ‘deal’ was released to the world with a ‘high’ spirited Michal Kurtvka , Chairman of th…
28 December 2018 · · Kurdish struggle, Syria, Turkey, USA
Trump's “Withdrawal” — What Next?
Militarist hawks and liberal pundits alike are up in arms (figuratively speaking, of course) over Donald Trump’s “victory” proclamation and announcement of U.S. troops’ withdrawal from Syria…
22 December 2018 · · Britain, EU · 6 comments
Labour must take the lead on Brexit
Since her transition from hard Brexit (no deal is better than a bad deal) to soft Brexit (any deal is better no deal), Theresa May has managed to satisfy no one, other than her own arch-loya…
17 December 2018 · · Uncategorized · 3 comments
The Home Office is guilty of harm, not us: Stansted 15 respond to guilty verdict
On December 10, fifteen protestors who prevented a government flight taking off from Stansted airport were found guilty of breaching rarely used anti-terror laws, writes Veronica Fagan . The…
16 December 2018 · Britain, EU, Labour Party, Tories
Theresa May, Theresa Might, Theresa Can’t … The Brexit Boogie
“Turning and turning in the widening gyre The falcon cannot hear the falconer; Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold; Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world, The blood-dimmed tide is loos…
16 December 2018 · Culture, Russian revolution · 1 comment
Trotsky as action hero minus the dragons
A new Russian drama series available on Netflix rehabilitates Leon Trotsky and is extremely sympathetic to him. It also sticks the boot into Stalin. Andy Stowe watched it and claims to have …
15 December 2018 · Uncategorized
A winter's tale: no room on the ward
John Lister , editor Health Campaigns Together, writes for Socialist Resistance on the state of the NHS facing another winter and discusses what next for the campaigns to save our NHS. Winte…
13 December 2018 · · France
The yellow jackets movement destabilizes Macron
The yellow jackets prepare for the fifth day of action on Saturday 15 December, high school students protested again on the 11 and 13 December, and the CGT and SUD trade-unions call for stri…
9 December 2018 · · Uncategorized
Another Europe Is Possible ready to challenge Brexit
The first conference of Another Europe Is Possible (AEIP),which took place in London on December 8 th , was arranged rather hastily writes Alan Thornett . A draft strategy document and const…
5 December 2018 · · Britain, Far right · 1 comment
Labour must fight for a second referendum
Theresa May suffered three shattering blows yesterday as her bid to get her exit proposals accepted by Parliament got off to a disastrous start, writes Alan Davies . Her government was found…
4 December 2018 · Britain, Far right
The Brexit betrayal and us
The far right has grown in both numbers and political confidence since the Brexit referendum. Ukip, the party founded with the aim of making Brexit happen, is now in alliance with the new fa…
3 December 2018 · France
France: what is at stake in the “yellow jacket” mobilisation
Hundreds of thousands of “yellow vests” demonstrated again all over France on Saturday 1 December against the rising cost of living and against Macron’s government. Now nearly a month old, t…
1 December 2018 · EU, Economics
The state and financialization: explaining recent European labor market policy
Why have neoliberal labor market policies survived the 2008 financial crisis? It cannot be because of their success. There is mounting evidence that measures such as restraining European wor…
28 November 2018 · · Britain
Brexit will make working people poorer
Building a massive coalition in favour of Brexit was a triumph for the hard right Tories and Ukip writes Andy Stowe . A lot of working class people were persuaded to vote for something that …
25 November 2018 · Britain, EU · 3 comments
Two steps to stop Brexit
Statement from Socialist Resistance . We called for a vote to Remain in the referendum in 2016 as the Leave campaign was totally dominated by a nationalist and xenophobic reaction to globali…
22 November 2018 · · Economics, Reviews
Economics for the Many
Tony Traub reviews Economics for the Many, edited by John McDonnell, Verso This book is a valuable collection of sixteen short essays on the crisis facing modern Britain, coming up with prog…
20 November 2018 · Indigenous struggles, International, Latin America, Peru
Hugo Blanco speaks
Hugo Blanco message to the Socialist Resistance meeting , London 6/11/2018 https://youtu.be/05DxGxTP92o English translation of the Hugo Blanco video message I want to thank the British cdes …
19 November 2018 · · Biodiversity, Ecosocialism
WWF report: wildlife in freefall
The 2018 edition of the highly respected World Wildlife Fund (WWF) Living Planet Report – and its associated Living Planet Index – have just been published, writes Alan Thornett . The Report…
16 November 2018 · · Indigenous struggles, Latin America, Peru, Reviews
Indigenous and International Struggle
Ian Parker reviews Derek Wall’s new book Hugo Blanco: A Revolutionary for Life , just published by Merlin Press with Resistance Books. Hugo Blanco is an inspiration to revolutionary ecosocia…
12 November 2018 · Climate Change, USA · 1 comment
What's the real cause of the California wildfires?
Phil Hearse writes on the combination of real estate capitalism and climate change which has unleashed murderous fires in California. Things are getting serious. At least 31 dead and maybe 2…
9 November 2018 · Brazil, Latin America
Brazil in the shadow of the far right
Marcelo Ramos, a member of PSOL, reports on the dangers and the prospects for resistance in Brazil after the election of Bolsonaro - the "Trump in the tropics". This is the text of his speec…
8 November 2018 · · Britain
The First World War: truth and lies
2014 was barely a few weeks old before various right wing politicians and historians began making clear their views on how the First World War should be remembered. Michael Gove, Boris Johns…
5 November 2018 · Brazil, Indigenous struggles, Latin America, Peru, Reviews
Hugo Blanco: From Trotskyism to Indigenous Vitality
Andrew Ryder discusses We the Indians: The Indigenous Peoples of Peru and the Struggle for Land : Hugo Blanco is a figure of great significance for contemporary thought on revolutionary pote…
2 November 2018 · · Ecosocialism, Germany
A victory in the struggle to protect the Hambach forest
"Hambi bleibt!" ("Hambi remains!" The rallying cry of the movement. Hambi is an affectively charged abbreviation.) The long, mass citizens’ struggle to protect the Hambach woods near Cologne…
1 November 2018 · Britain · 1 comment
Five months to stop Brexit nightmare
Michael Chessum of Another Europe Is Possible set out a strategy for stopping Brexit at the Europe for the many conference in London on October 26th. Here is what he said. "I’m going to make…
30 October 2018 · Nicaragua
Faced with Nicaragua’s social and political crisis - Solidarity with popular demands and against Ortegista repression!
This statement was adopted by the Executive Bureau of the Fourth International on 28 October 2018. The Sandinista Popular Revolution The Sandinista National Liberation Front (FSLN) was born …
30 October 2018 · Britain, Far right
The far right in Britain today: mobilise to stop its rise
Dave Landau looks at the history of the far right in Britain and discusses what should we do today to resist its rise. Back in 2005 the left had a bit of a shock when the British National Pa…
24 October 2018 · · Britain, Education
Beware of Ofsted inspectors bearing gifts
Phil Hearse analyses the statement on the 11 October from Ofsted that it is going to overhaul the way it inspects schools in England, downgrading the influence of exam results. Is Ofsted rea…
21 October 2018 · · Britain · 5 comments
Massive demonstration against Tory Brexit
From Parliament Square to Trafalgar Square an estimated 700,000 people filled central London on Saturday October 20 th protesting against the Tory Brexit writes Andy Stowe . It was the large…
18 October 2018 · · Reviews · 1 comment
Peterloo – the relevance of history
Mike Leigh’s new film Peterloo is the cinema of class war. It’s an unrepentantly pro-working class, anti-ruling class piece of work which every single Labour Party member, trade unionist and…
15 October 2018 · Climate Change
IPCC Climate report: a global wake-up call
Alan Thornett offers an initial assessment of the UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) special ‘1.5°C’ report published on October 8 on the deepening crisis around climate cha…
14 October 2018 · Housing, Ireland, Reviews
Ireland's Housing Crisis
Ireland’s Housing Crisis: A Marxist Analysis by John McAnulty reviewed by Glynn Robbins John McAnulty’s short, readable pamphlet couldn’t be timelier. On 3 rd October, a reported 12,000 peop…
12 October 2018 · · Britain, Far right · 1 comment
Far Right – Threat or Phantom?
Phil Hearse analyses the far-right in Britain today with its anti-establishment and nationalist narratives. It faces serious obstacles with the workers movement and Corbyn’s Labour Party. Bu…
11 October 2018 · · Britain · 1 comment
The Brexit crunch
Since the EU elites rejected May’s Chequers proposals on the basis that they breach the fundamental principles of the EU; i.e. the internal market and free movement, the likelihood of a diso…
8 October 2018 · Europe
The Challenges for the Left in Europe and the Eurozone
Eric Toussaint, argues that much of the radical left who have members in the European Parliament have a mistaken idea of what EU integration and the Eurozone are, believing that it can deliv…
5 October 2018 · · trade unions
Solidarity with #FFS410
Protestors in Wrexham Yesterday there were protests across Britain in solidarity with #FFS410 (Fast Food shutdown, 4 th October) , writes Susan Moore. The workers at the centre of the action…
3 October 2018 · · Labour Party · 1 comment
Corbyn triumphant at Labour Conference
After a summer in which Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn faced endless vitriol from the right in the party and the media, Labour’s conference was a triumph, writes Veronica Fagan . Commitments fr…
25 September 2018 · · Britain, Tories
Tory split or general election?
You’ll have noticed that some of the supermarkets have already started displaying Christmas merchandise writes Andy Stowe . You might even have begun mentally drafting your letter to Santa s…
22 September 2018 · Britain, EU, Far right, Labour Party, Racism · 1 comment
Resisting the right
As the Labour Party conference starts, Socialist Resistance looks at the challenges for the left in the coming months. Resisting the right has been a theme over recent months on three interr…
18 September 2018 · Britain, Ireland, Reviews · 1 comment
A hidden history of British military repression against civilians
The Ballymurphy massacre has the simplest of all dramatic structures. It is a narrative built around a chronology - a three-day assault by the British Army on a Belfast housing estate follow…
16 September 2018 · Bosnia, Obituaries
Remembering Mick Woods - preserving the IWA archive
Mick Woods, a comrade from Britain who had lived in Denmark for more than twenty years, died at the too young age of 64 in July, as Geoff Ryan and Sue Woodford told us in their obituary here…
15 September 2018 · Climate Change
The Politics of Hurricanes - climate catastrophe victimises the poor
Hurricanes hit the USA and the Philippines, just days after Donald Trump disputes the official findings that nearly 3,000 people died in Puerto Rico as a result of last year's storms. Phil H…
10 September 2018 · Reviews · 2 comments
Freedom is only the freedom of dissenters
Working for the Stasi Working for Russia I don’t even know what money looks like Only tellings off, pays cuts, ingratitude commands The members of the East German punk band Namenlos were giv…
5 September 2018 · Obituaries · 2 comments
Mick Woods (28/12/1954 – 19/7/2018) Comrade, Fighter, Friend
We are writing to say goodbye to our friend and comrade Mick Woods who has died too young - at the early age of 64 in hospital in Aarhus, Denmark, write Geoff Ryan and Sue Woodford . Mick ha…
4 September 2018 · Reviews
Culture as Politics: Selected Writings of Christopher Caudwell
Edited by David Margolies, Pluto, London, 2018. 192pp., £17.99 pb ISBN 9780745337227 Reviewed by Derek Wall On 15 th March this year Anna Campbell died in Syria. A feminist from Lewes in Sus…
31 August 2018 · · Black struggles, Reviews · 2 comments
BlacKkKlansman…..a warning from history
Speaking about his film BlacKkKlansman, director Spike Lee said “The film was in post-production when Charlottesville happened. Charlottesville wrote me a whole new ending”. This is very muc…
29 August 2018 · Fourth international, Youth
Successful youth camp survived the heatwave
On 29 July, the 35th International Socialist Youth Camp ended in Billund, Denmark. Around 300 young people went home to Africa, Asia, North and South America and their different European cou…
22 August 2018 · Labour Party, antisemitism · 2 comments
Labour must stand firm on antisemitism code of conduct
Labour’s ruling National Executive Committee (NEC) will next meet on September 4. There are many crucial matters on the agenda including which of the proposals from the Democracy review will…
19 August 2018 · Racism, antisemitism
Community Organisations Speak Out Against Public Silence
Socialist Resistance is happy to publish the important statement below from 85 BAME and migrant organisations in Britain. including many Palestinian groups. These are voices that need to be …
17 August 2018 · · Labour Party
Feeling under siege
These past couple of weeks have put me in a particularly vile mood, to the point when watching Family Guy with my husband yesterday, there was a scene where Lois is having severe allergies w…
9 August 2018 · Britain, Far right · 1 comment
An Injury to One is an Injury to All
Fascist attacks on bookshops are not new. A personal reminiscence from Roland Rance . In the early 1980s, I worked at Fourth Idea Bookshop in Bradford. This was a radical bookshop, tucked aw…
7 August 2018 · · Britain, Labour Party
Momentum, antisemitism and the coup
Just when you think that the attacks on Jeremy Corbyn can't get any more ludicrous writes Andy Stowe , a journalist working for Rupert Murdoch remembers something he read in The Sun a year a…
5 August 2018 · · Israel, Labour Party, Palestine, antisemitism · 4 comments
The New Coup
The shape and direction of the current coup are clear, writes Roland Rance . Corbyn is being set up to lose, and Jews are being set up to take the blame. The plotters will not be satisfied w…
4 August 2018 · Chile, Latin America, Women
Fascist Attack on Women’s March in Chile
In the face of the attack by fascist groups on Chile’s feminist movement, we, the undersigned, state: On July 25, fascists violently attacked the 6 th National March for the Right to Free, L…
1 August 2018 · · Italy
Salvini quotes Mussolini as hate crimes rise in Italy
Dave Kellaway reports from Italy on the danger posed by rise of racism and the far right following the recent elections. An Italian national discus thrower attacked and injured seriously in …
31 July 2018 · Asia, Uncategorized
Pakistan elections: what change?
The general elections in Pakistan have brought Imran Kahn to power with the slogan “a new Pakistan”. Farooq Tariq , a leading member of the Awami Workers Party, explains that little will cha…
28 July 2018 · · Britain, EU · 1 comment
May survives – at least until the autumn
You couldn’t make it up. May has survived until the autumn (probably) after an utterly remarkable week of chicanery and confusion in British politics. Alan Davies argues that we now face an …
27 July 2018 · Britain
Universal Credit - stop it and scrap it!
Whistleblowers have said Universal Credit is broken while even the National Audit Office has savaged the new welfare system. Susan Pashkoff , Women's Officer for Wanstead and Leyton CLP, upd…
25 July 2018 · · Ecosocialism, Europe, Uncategorized
Fires in Greece: the politics of natural disasters
The government has persistently allowed private interests in construction, industry and tourism to be prioritised over serious ecological and safety concerns, writes Kleanthis Antoniou , a s…
21 July 2018 · Britain, EU, Labour Party · 2 comments
Oppose Tory Brexit and win a radical Labour government
Another Europe Is Possible (AEIP) has produced two model resolutions which makes the left case in Labour for opposing Brexit. Socialist Resistance is encouraging readers of this site who are…
17 July 2018 · · Britain
A good weekend for the left
While it's probably wrong to categorise Trump as a neo-fascist, he is the rallying symbol for the new nationalist hard right globally writes Andy Stowe . His visit to England and Scotland on…
16 July 2018 · Reviews
Political education: someone’s done it better
Peter Drucker reviews David Camfield's We Can Do Better: Ideas for Changing Society , Halifax & Winnipeg: Fernwood Publishing, 2017, 168 pp., $25 Canadian The breathtakingly rapid changes in…
12 July 2018 · · Britain, USA
All out against the hard right: No to Trump, No to the FLA, DFLA, and EDL …
If you need reasons to join the various anti-Trump actions in Britain, including on Friday 13 th July , you don’t have to look hard to find them, writes Sarah Peterson . In Donald Trump we h…
12 July 2018 · · Britain, Climate Change, USA
March against Trump – and for the Planet
There are many reasons for supporting the anti-Trump protests this week, writes Alan Thornett . It has become increasingly clear that Trump can do immeasurable damage not only to politics ac…
11 July 2018 · Britain, Labour Party
Barnet left activist targeted
Veronica Fagan from Socialist Resistance talked to Fred Leplat about his political history and his recent exclusion from the Labour Party VF: Tell us something about your history of politica…
10 July 2018 · · Britain, Ecosocialism
The fight against Heathrow is far from over
On Monday June 25, Westminster took two decisions which were a major breach in Britain’s commitment to combatting climate change – as well as being disastrous for other reasons, writes Terry…
9 July 2018 · · Britain
Pile on the pressure for a general election
In retrospect, writes Andy Stowe, the high point of Theresa May's career as prime minister could turn out to have been her October 3rd 2017 speech . She ground to a halt due to a coughing fi…
6 July 2018 · · Britain, USA
March against Trump - march against attacks on migrants
Many people were rightly shocked and appalled when they heard about Trump’s decision to separate the children of refugees, asylum seekers and migrants from their parents, writes Sarah Peters…
2 July 2018 · Reviews
How to see without a camera
Dorothea Lange: Politics of Seeing at The Barbican, London, reviewed by Andy Stowe The clothes and vehicles are a bit different, but in many ways the subjects of Dorothea Lange's photos take…
30 June 2018 · · NHS
NHS England forced to retreat on key plans
It’s becoming very difficult for NHS England to sneak any changes past increasingly suspicious campaigners and an increasingly vocal local public: that’s the encouraging message from their d…
29 June 2018 · NHS
Why we are celebrating as well as demonstrating for Our NHS on June 30
As the NHS approaches its 70th birthday on July 5, there is plenty for us to celebrate and defend. Despite 30 years of repeated attempts by Westminster government “reforms” to fragment and d…
29 June 2018 · · NHS
NHS short changed by Tories!
After ridiculing health workers demanding more funding for the NHS and insisting there was no “magic money tree,” Theresa May seemed to have found it, writes John Lister editor of Health Cam…
26 June 2018 · Britain, USA
All out to ‘greet’ Trump on July 13 and 14
Donald Trump is visiting Britain very soon. The US president is the epitome of reaction at so many levels. The labour movement and the left in Britain needs to strain every muscle it can to …
25 June 2018 · · Britain, EU, Labour Party · 2 comments
People's vote march shows potential for left anti-Brexit voice
When tens of thousands of people take to the streets you know you are dealing with a spontaneous movement writes Andy Stowe . This of course means that they might turn up with all manner of …
19 June 2018 · · Housing
Marching for Grenfell
Summing up the silent march for Grenfell that took place to mark the anniversary of the disaster in words is hard, but thankfully there are powerful images which help round out what I want t…
17 June 2018 · · Labour Party
Labour Live festival disappoints the sneerers
If the organisers had contrived to have Mozart, Elvis Presley and Prince emerge from a spaceship to perform an amazing new bit of music at the Labour Live festival on June 17 th , Jeremy Cor…
14 June 2018 · Palestine
Siege and resistance in Gaza: an interview with Toufic Haddad
For more than 10 weeks, Palestinians have gathered in protest every Friday at the Israeli-Gaza Strip buffer zone, located in the perimeter of the 1949 armistice lines. Called by organisers t…
12 June 2018 · · Ecosocialism, Labour Party, transport
Heathrow: step up the campaign against expansion now
Tory Transport Minister Chris Grayling announced to Parliament on June 5 th , after endless prevarication, what he called the government’s ‘final proposal’ on airport expansion in the shape …
11 June 2018 · · Economics · 1 comment
Automation and ‘the disappearance of jobs’: what should the left propose?
There is a good deal of discussion in the media of the impact over the next few decades of computer-based mechanisation or automation of waged work, writes Jamie Gough . This is seen by some…
10 June 2018 · · Racism · 7 comments
Tommy Robinson, English nationalism and Brexit
Three things strike you when looking at videos and photos of the neo-fascist demonstration on June 9 th calling for the release from prison of the Islamophobic criminal Tommy Robinson writes…
10 June 2018 · · Britain, transport
Renationalise the railways
Britain’s East Coast rail service, which runs from London to Aberdeen, is being taken into temporary state control on June 24 , after it became clear that the companies that held the franchi…
8 June 2018 · · Labour Party, local government · 3 comments
Local Government feels the effects of austerity
The effects of austerity are very visible in the attacks on local government spending. Underfunded council services are one of the first points of impact for the poorest and most vulnerable …
6 June 2018 · Syria
Internationalist solidarity with the Syrian people is more necessary than ever!
The Fourth International reaffirms its solidarity with all the bombed, massacred, tortured, starving and displaced civilians in Syria; its solidarity with the democratic and progressive forc…
4 June 2018 · · Ireland, Women
Landslide Victory for Abortion Rights in Ireland
“A stunning victory” was how I described the results from the referendum on removing the constitutional ban on abortion in an Irish Times article on Monday 28th, writes Anne Conway . The vot…
2 June 2018 · · trade unions
Report from UCU Congress 2018
In her address to the 2018 UCU congress, Sally Hunt returned time and time again to the fact that this has been a turn around year for the union. She emphasised the fantastic national strike…
30 May 2018 · · Ireland, Women
Repeal the north
The result of the referendum to repeal the constitutional ban on abortion was a huge step forward for the majority of Irish women writes Barney Cassidy . They will shortly be able, for the f…
30 May 2018 · · Italy · 1 comment
Italian crisis –Neither the European Union nor a racist national sovereignty
Matterella’s risky move The racist Salvini could not have asked for a better speech writer for his upcoming electoral soundbites than the Italian president, Matterella, writes Dave Kellaway …
29 May 2018 · · Reviews · 1 comment
The Young Marx
I was thoroughly enthused and inspired by Raoul Peck’s film The Young Marx, when I watched at the ICA, London recently, writes Derek Wall . However, I appreciate that not everyone who has se…
24 May 2018 · · Reviews
Is Fascism Inevitable?
Phil Hearse reviews Can Democracy Survive Globalised Capitalism? by Robert Kuttner, Norton Publishers, May 2018 Since the global financial crisis in 2007-8, and the consequent anti-capitalis…
23 May 2018 · NHS · 1 comment
Why you should join the big march and celebration June 30
As the NHS approaches its 70 th birthday on July 5, there is plenty for us to celebrate and defend. Despite 30 years of repeated attempts by government “reforms” to fragment and distort it, …
18 May 2018 · · Ireland, Women
Repeal the 8th
Seven days from now, on May 25th, Ireland will be voting on whether to repeal the part of their constitution that denies women control over their bodies, writes Susan Moore. This means that …
15 May 2018 · · Israel, Labour Party, Palestine · 1 comment
Palestinian Lives matter
It seems almost inevitable that by the time this short piece is published more Palestinians will have been murdered in Gaza by the Israeli state, writes Veronica Fagan . And yesterday’s deat…
12 May 2018 · Labour Party, Palestine, antisemitism
Corbyn under Fire
For weeks, Jeremy Corbyn’s Labour Party has been the target of a defamatory campaign meant to undermine it, wrote Daniel Finn on April 9. The dominant narrative in the British media about Je…
9 May 2018 · Brazil
Brazil: For the many not the few - Boulos for president!!!
Manifesto from Boulos for president in Brazil – UK committee The coup in Brazil – and the Temer government In 2016, a parliamentary coup took place, overthrowing an elected government and gi…
6 May 2018 · · Britain, Labour Party, Tories, local government
Council election results reveal polarised situation
The council election result in Kensington and Chelsea is a good indicator of how polarised the political situation is in Britain writes Andy Stowe . The Conservative controlled council there…
3 May 2018 · · Britain, France, Our History, students
1968 seen from Britain
None of the key events of 1968 happened in Britain, but they impacted dramatically on the configuration of the Left, writes Phil Hearse . One socialist journal said it was “the year the ice …
30 April 2018 · · Racism, Tories · 1 comment
Rudd goes - oppose racist immigration regime
Amber Rudd's resignation as Home Secretary is perhaps the most significant ministerial departure for racism since Enoch Powell's. She oversaw a racist deportation policy and denied knowing t…
30 April 2018 · · Brazil
Resisting the coup in Brazil like Marielle Franco did
This year, 2018, is the 30th anniversary of the Brazilian federal constitution, which marked the end of a long period of military dictatorship (From 1964-85) and the reestablishment of democ…
26 April 2018 · · Britain, Labour Party, antisemitism, local government
How Labour could win in Barnet
As the Tories fall apart in Barnet, will Labour win the elections??? Frank Morris reports on the campaign and what’s at stake in what was once the Tories flagship for privatisation. Tory Bar…
26 April 2018 · · Brazil
Assassination in Brazil unmasks the deadly racism of a country that would rather ignore it
When Marielle Franco , a Rio de Janeiro city councilwoman, was shot to death in downtown Rio on March 14, her killing moved the world, writes Ana Míria dos Santos Carvalho Carinhanha. Protes…
22 April 2018 · Britain, Labour Party, antisemitism · 2 comments
Jewish Voice for Labour in Manchester
An important meeting for Labour Party members about antisemitism was held in central Manchester in April. Ian Parker was there. We know very well that Jeremy Corbyn has been under attack fro…
21 April 2018 · Palestine
The courage of the #GreatReturnMarch
Statement of the Fourth International The Fourth International salutes the desperate courage, resolve and creativity of the thousands of Palestinians in the Gaza Strip taking part in the #Gr…
18 April 2018 · Fourth international, Youth · 1 comment
International Socialist Youth Camp - Denmark - July 22-28
Do you want to find out more about socialism, feminism and environmentalism? That’s what the Fourth International’s annual youth camp in Denmark is all about. In a week with hundreds of youn…
17 April 2018 · · Education · 1 comment
Education unions keep school funding on the agenda
The conference held over Easter weekend this year was the last for the National Union of Teachers (NUT), writes Jon Duveen . Next year what will take place is the first conference of the Nat…
16 April 2018 · Peru, Reviews · 1 comment
Hugo Blanco's "We the Indians" - essential reading for ecosocialists
We the Indians: The indigenous peoples of Peru and the struggles for land, Hugo Blanco, Merlin Press/Resistance Books reviewed by Derek Wall Hugo Blanco led a peasant uprising in Peru for la…
15 April 2018 · · Palestine, Reviews · 1 comment
Comedy from the front line
Showtime from the Frontline by Mark Thomas, Faisal Abu Alhayjaa and Alaa Shehada I’m sorry to be writing this review so close to the end of the run of this remarkable show as my message is t…
13 April 2018 · · Britain, Labour Party, Syria · 4 comments
Don’t bomb Syria - No support for Assad
A decade ago, a time when Boris Johnson was able to present documentaries on the BBC about the glories of Roman imperialism, visitors to the main market in Damascus could still see the bulle…
10 April 2018 · · Catalonia, Scotland · 1 comment
Scotland in solidarity with Catalonia
The question of Catalonia has had ridiculously little coverage in the British media recently, though Scotland has been to some extent an exception. This is partly because there are parallels…
6 April 2018 · · Israel, Labour Party, Palestine, antisemitism
How not to fight antisemitism
On March 30 2018 Israel accelerated its practice of deliberate cold-blooded murder of Palestinian civilians demonstrating peacefully in their own land, writes Ariel Pardess . But you might n…
6 April 2018 · · Israel, Labour Party, Palestine
Palestinians will not be silenced
As a British Palestinian Arab and member of the Labour Party I am beginning to feel there is a minority who do not want the Party to welcome people like me. And they sure don’t want to make …
5 April 2018 · Israel, Palestine
Solidarity with Gaza
Friday March 30 2018 saw the murder of sixteen Palestinians and the injury of at least 1500, mostly from live ammunition by Israeli troops as they protested inside Gaza, reports Susan Moore …
4 April 2018 · Bangladesh
A Call to Support the Landless People Char Conference in Bangladesh
Socialist Resistance , along with other organisations, have received call to support the Char Conference from Bangladesh Krishok Federation (BKF) and Bangladesh Kishani Sabha (BKS). The occu…
29 March 2018 · · Britain, Kurdish struggle, Syria, Turkey
Solidarity with Afrin
Socialist Resistance is proud to stand in solidarity with the Kurdish people in their struggle for self determination and against the repressive behaviour of all the reactionary regimes in t…
23 March 2018 · Britain, Labour Party, Reviews
Corbyn's path to power - a review
Alex Nunns', The Candidate; Jeremy Corbyn's improbable path to powe r, second edition is reviewed here by Margot Lindsay. Introduction In discussing the path to power, Nunns explains that th…
22 March 2018 · · Labour Party · 1 comment
Labour must promise referendum on Brexit deal
Brexit will be the culmination of the British right's most successful project since Thatcherism and Andy Stowe argues that Labour must offer voters a chance to vote on the deal that is event…
21 March 2018 · · Britain, Labour Party, Russia, Tories · 1 comment
No rush to judgement
Whoever was responsible for the use of chemical weapons against a Russian ex-spy in Salisbury, the main political beneficiary so far appears to be Teresa May, whose bellicose response has le…
20 March 2018 · · Fourth international
Fourth International World Congress 2018: Praxis
The Seventeenth World Congress of the Fourth International (FI) took place on the chilly Belgian coast from 25 February to 2 March 2018. Jo Taku reports. This congress takes place eighty yea…
19 March 2018 · · Britain, Labour Party
Corbyn supporters on a roll
It has been a good few weeks for Corbyn supporters in the Labour Party writes Andy Stowe . Steven Saxby, described by the Evening Standard as an "arch-Corbynite" has been selected as the par…
18 March 2018 · Brazil
Marielle Franco, presente!
Our comrade Marielle Franco murdered Activist of the LGTB movement, the World March of Women, City Councilor of the Party Socialism and Liberty (PSOL) in Rio de Janeiro and in charge of the …
17 March 2018 · · Labour Party · 2 comments
Tory Liars: Corbyn and the Labour left opposed the East European regimes
The document below, taken from the Ukrainian Solidarity Campaign website, demonstrates just how absurd and misleading the recent slurs on Jeremy Corbyn presenting him as a supporter of Stali…
15 March 2018 · · Ukraine
Ukraine and the Empire of Capital
Yulia Yurchenko has produced an important new book on the crises in Ukraine. Ukraine and the Empire of Capital: From Marketisation to Armed Conflict (Pluto Press, 2018) takes a very differen…
13 March 2018 · · Britain, Labour Party, Uncategorized · 1 comment
Austerity, Brexit and the Corbyn challenge
After the harshest winter for more than a decade, Britain finds itself still gripped by the icy fingers of neoliberal austerity, writes Phil Hearse . Both the health service (NHS) and local …
12 March 2018 · · LGBTIQ, Reviews, trade unions
Championing inclusion
Champions of Equality: Trade Unions and LGBT rights in Britain by Peter Purton, Lawrence and Wishart, 2017. Reviewed by Terry Conway. Peter Purton’s book is a real service to labour movement…
9 March 2018 · Britain, EU, Labour Party, Tories · 2 comments
Labour should grasp the Brexit nettle
Just when you think the crisis of the Tory party has reached rock bottom it gets worse, argues Alan Davies. Claims of ‘unity’ by Theresa May after her ‘keynote’ Mansion House Brexit speech o…
8 March 2018 · Britain, Labour Party, Women, trade unions
A red thread of militancy for March 8
Sylvia Pankhurst and the East End branch of the Women's Social and Political Union were kicked out of that organisation for supporting political causes other than women's suffrage and becaus…
8 March 2018 · · Britain, Education, Trade Unions, USA, Women
Education strikes are women's strikes
"The struggle for gender justice has always been and remains today crucial for the struggle for labour and social justice in general" - Sara Farris Two of the most significant labour dispute…
6 March 2018 · Italy · 2 comments
Pro-austerity government punished but votes go to racist Lega and populist Five Star movement
As in 2013, the Italian general elections have not produced a government majority. No party or coalition has crossed the 40% threshold that would allow them to form a government. So has noth…
4 March 2018 · Britain, Labour Party · 6 comments
Labour General Secretary – the agony of choice
Jon Lansman should let Jennie Formby have a clear run at a crucial Labour Party job, argues Andy Stowe. Corbyn supporting members were pleased when Iain McNicol announced in late February th…
2 March 2018 · Britain, Housing
After the Grenfell Tower Fire
The fire last June at Grenfell Tower killed 71, but justice for the survivors has yet to come. Sheila Cohen reports on the campaign for justice and the political implications of the tragedy.…
28 February 2018 · Labour Party, Reviews
For the Many … Preparing Labour for power
This impressive and varied collection of voices from the left weaves this anthology assembled by Mike Phipps. F or the Many …Preparing Labour for power is reviewed by Margot Lindsay. In the …
27 February 2018 · South Africa
South Africa: Ramaphosa and Gigaba have allowed a crisis to go to waste
Gigaba and Ramaphosa have set South Africa on a path of economic regression. The 2018 budget will hit poor and working class people harder. The Alternative Information and Development Centre…
25 February 2018 · Middle East, Syria
Syria: the war is far from over
Gilbert Achcar met with Syrian Corner during Syria Awareness Week in February 2018 at SOAS. Achcar posits that the Syrian conflict is far from over and that for Bashar al-Assad to establish …
21 February 2018 · · Education, students, trade unions
Solidarity with the UCU Strike!
Starting Thursday February 22, members of the University College Union (UCU) at 61 universities will be taking strike action against proposed changes to their pension scheme, writes Nathan R…
20 February 2018 · · Britain, Climate Change, Ecosocialism
Planning for a future which doesn't cost the earth
The Campaign against Climate Change Trade Union Group is organising an important conference on climate change and the trade unions on Saturday, March 10, 2018 at Hamilton House London WC1H 9…
19 February 2018 · Britain, Israel · 2 comments
Who's next?
The attack on supporters of Palestinian rights and opponents of Israel’s war crimes has been so relentless that the targets can be forgiven a feeling of glee when the attackers themselves fa…
6 February 2018 · · Housing, Labour Party, Regeneration, local government
How the Haringey Development Vehicle was defeated
On Wednesday February 7, another protest will be taking place in the London Borough of Haringey against the Haringey Development Vehicle ( HDV), marching through the area and then lobbying a…
5 February 2018 · · Ecosocialism, South Africa · 1 comment
Cape Town water crisis—sign of things to come
Cape Town—in which some of Africa’s most affluent live– is rapidly running out of water, writes Alan Thornett . Population growth and a record drought, exacerbated by climate change, are cre…
1 February 2018 · Regeneration
Fighting 'regeneration' in East London
You might have thought that the example of Haringey, where massive opposition to the unpopular “Haringey Development Vehicle” has led to several demonstrations and the deselection of most co…
30 January 2018 · Kurdish struggle · 1 comment
Step up support for Afrin
On Saturday January 27th's #DefendAfrin demonstration in London, Dan Carden MP read this statement from Jeremy Corbyn : "I send my solidarity to the Kurdish people of Syria and all over the …
26 January 2018 · · Labour Party, NHS
Build Feb 3 emergency demonstration for the NHS
1500 people thronged into Central Hall Westminster last night for a Labour Party rally to defend the NHS, writes Terry Conway . An enthusiastic audience, warmed up by the NHS choir, then hea…
25 January 2018 · Kurdish struggle, Syria, Turkey
Solidarity with Afrin, al-Ghouta, Idlib against all military attacks
We republish here a statement from the Alliance of Middle Eastern Socialists on the military attacks taking place against the popular movements in Syria. We also refer readers to this statem…
23 January 2018 · · Britain
Make Carillion a watershed
Just when the May government thought the horrors of Grenfell Tower might be fading in the public’s mind, and they had convinced themselves (however implausibly) that they could see a speck o…
17 January 2018 · Reviews, USA · 1 comment
Inside Trump’s White House
Fire and Fury: Inside the Trump White House by Michael Wolff (Henry Holt and Little, Brown, 2018) reviewed by Jo Taku Michael Wolff was able to take a seat inside the White House after Trump…
16 January 2018 · Uncategorized
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15 January 2018 · · Britain, Ecosocialism, Tories · 1 comment
Plastic waste and political hypocrisy
Ten years after plastic pollution has reached a global crisis point—brilliantly highlighted recently by David Attenborough’s stunning Blue Planet II series—Theresa May has decided that it is…
12 January 2018 · Carribean, Climate Change
Irma: a neoliberal hurricane
The smaller of the two main islands forming the nation of Antigua and Barbuda, Barbuda, is a small sun-drenched island in the eastern Caribbean; it has an area of 70 square miles and a popul…
11 January 2018 · · Ecosocialism, Obituaries
Physics teacher became a pioneer ecologist
Factory worker Alan Roberts returned from war service to gain a degree in physics. While teaching at Monash his passionate opposition to nuclear power led to him becoming one of Australia's …
9 January 2018 · Britain, trade unions · 1 comment
RMT strikes for jobs and a safe railway
Frank Morris writes about the current strikes on the rail and the consequences of 25 years of privatised railways. The disastrous consequences of the railway privatisation 25 years ago are t…
9 January 2018 · Philippines
Critical humanitarian situation in Mindanao - Urgent appeal for financial aid
The most important initiative of solidarity taken by our association, ESSF, during 2017 concerned the island of Mindanao, in the south of the Philippines, reports Pierre Rousset . Then it wa…
6 January 2018 · · NHS
NHS in Crisis: Fix It Now!
Emergency Demonstration Saturday 3 February END THE WINTER CRISIS, FUND #OURNHS Assemble: 12noon, Gower Street, London WC1E (near UCLH) Called by Health Campaigns Together & The People's Ass…
5 January 2018 · · Labour Party, Reviews
The Radical Rebirth of Corbynite Politics
Jo Taku reviews the Second Edition of Richard Seymour’s Corbyn: The Strange Rebirth of Radical Politics (Verso, 2017). This is a book that had its finger on the pulse in 2016 when it was fir…
3 January 2018 · · Labour Party, local government
The significance of the Birmingham bin workers’ strike
On November 24 2017, a resolution was reached to the Birmingham bin strike. Meeting at ACAS, Unite the union, representing the affected workers, agreed terms to end the strike with the counc…