2021
28 December 2021 · · Climate Change, Scotland
Beyond Glasgow – what happened at COP26 and where we go next
On Saturday, 4 December, activists in Glasgow held a first gathering to take stock and plan future steps, writes Iain Bruce. So this is intended as a contribution to that process of weighing…
18 October 2021 · Climate Change, Latin America
Latin America: Heading to the UN Climate Change Conference - Climate Change and Extractivism
Document approved at the first conference held by the Ecology Commission of Latin America of the Fourth International in June 2021. Capitalism, through its exploitation of waged work on a wo…
19 September 2021 · France, Reviews
The Paris Commune: an ode to emancipation
A review by Siyabulela Mama of the book published by Resistance Books. We do not pay homage to a man, a hero or a great thinker, but to a crowd of anonymous people whom we refuse to forget. …
3 September 2021 · Afghanisatn, Fourth international
Solidarity with the Afghan people, victims of imperialism and the Taliban
This statement was adopted by the Executive Bureau of the Fourth International on 30 August 2021 Ten years after the withdrawal of the American army from Iraq, US intervention is again suffe…
13 August 2021 · · Fourth international, Women
The 2021 International Women’s Seminar of the Fourth International
The 2021 International Women’s Seminar of the Fourth International was held on 10/11 and 17/18 July. While previous seminars were hosted in the IIRE Amsterdam, the pandemic made it unavoidab…
5 August 2021 · Ecosocialism, Fourth international, Scotland
Welome to ecosocialist.scot!
Socialist Resistance is pleased to announce the launch of the ecosocialist.scot website and associated social media sites on Facebook , Twitter and Instagram. ecosocialist.scot will provide …
2 August 2021 · Israel, Palestine
2021, the year of Israeli apartheid
We are publishing this piece from Jewish Voice for Labour because we not only agree with it but think it is highly significant. JVL Introduction Ahmed Abbes and Jonathan Rosenhead argue that…
29 July 2021 · Uncategorized
Introduction to Marxist Theory by Ernest Mandel
Introduction to Mar xist Theory contains a selection of essays on key subjects Mandel worked on: the theory of the state, imperialism, reformism, and bureaucracy. “The Leninist Theory of Org…
22 July 2021 · Uncategorized
In view of the popular mobilizations in Cuba and imperialist aggressions
End the imperialist economic blockade of Cuba now! For a free and sovereign Cuba Down with imperialist interference in Cuba! For socialist democracy in Cuba! On July 11 we witnessed protests…
18 July 2021 · · Middle East, Palestine
Palestinian liberation and the MENA revolutions
Israel’s recent attacks against Palestinians in Israel, the West Bank, and Gaza demonstrated, once again, the brutal colonial, racist, and apartheid nature of the Zionist state, writes Josep…
16 July 2021 · Cuba
Release Frank García Hernández and his comrades
For years, indeed decades, we have denounced the blockade imposed by the US authorities against Cuba. We have denounced and continue to denounce the various policies and measures adopted by …
12 July 2021 · Uncategorized
Wales’s new Climate Change Ministry bodes well for the future – possibly
Red-Green Labour’s Sean Thompson gives a cautious welcome to Welsh Labour’s plans. In May’s Welsh Senedd elections, Labour equalled its best result since the Welsh Assembly was established i…
9 July 2021 · Uncategorized
Rayner O’Connor Lysaght Presente!
We are saddened to learn Rayner Lysaght has passed. Rayner Lysaght was a lifelong revolutionary Marxist, historian and author. He edited and introduced the IIRE Notebook “ October Readings: …
26 June 2021 · · Obituaries
Penny Kemp (1949-2021)
Penny Kemp, who died on 12 June after a battle with Parkinsons Disease, was a long standing Green Party member and a pioneering ecosocialist, writes Derek Wall.. I have found it difficult to…
8 June 2021 · Women, trans liberation · 1 comment
Trans Liberation and Socialist Feminism
Socialist Resistance Editorial Board Back to basics Our understanding of the term gender is that it is separate from the term sex, the latter refers to physiological features, the former to …
25 May 2021 · Britain, Obituaries · 1 comment
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“One of the indispensable ones ” Mick Gosling 26 September 1952 - 7 April 2021 The driving force of Mick Gosling’s life was the defence of working people’s rights and a commitment to sociali…
24 May 2021 · Covid-19
End the system of private patents!
Thanks to a huge scientific effort based on international collaboration and historic amounts of public money, humanity has been able to develop several effective vaccines against Covid-19 in…
17 May 2021 · Palestine
Solidarity with Palestinians against neocolonial aggression
Statement of the Fourth International In recent weeks, Palestinians in Jerusalem have mobilized en masse to defend their basic right – to live in their own homes, homes to their families for…
31 March 2021 · Uncategorized
Politics in Britain is entering a new phase
By the Socialist Resistance editorial committee . The successful vaccine roll out by the NHS and Starmer’s right wing gallop has given Johnson a shot in the arm. Polls put the Tories 7% ahea…
18 March 2021 · Fourth international · 1 comment
The Fourth International held its 2021 International Committee online
After having had to cancel the 2020 meeting due to the outbreak of the coronavirus pandemic, the Fourth International successfully managed to organize it as an online meeting in 2021. The In…
26 February 2021 · Portugal
Solidarity with Mamadou #Mamadoumuststay
"Em carne e osso com Mamadou Ba" (In flesh and blood with Mamadou Ba), is the name of a solidarity campaign that in a few days mobilized hundreds of persons sending videos, texts, songs or o…
12 February 2021 · Catalonia, Scotland
Catalan elections closely watched in Scotland
Catalonia goes to the polls on Sunday 14 February (14-F) in elections for the devolved parliament and government ("Generalitat"), The elections will be closely watched in Scotland, particula…
11 February 2021 · Britain
ACR is a thing! Revolutionary Marxist organising now
The process of constructing Anti-Capitalist Resistance has taken a significant step forward. Ian Parker was there. The two-day online event took place on Saturday 30 and Sunday 31 January, b…
8 February 2021 · Fourth international, Obituaries · 3 comments
A tribute to Ernie Tate
Ernest (‘Ernie’) Tate, one of the founders of the International Marxist Group (IMG) and the Vietnam Solidarity Campaign (VSC) in the 1960s, has died from cancer at the age of 86 at his home …
8 February 2021 · Scotland
Vigil for the Valley – the Occupation of Collina Street
On Friday the 15 th of January, a gazebo went up on a patch of vacant land at Collina Street in Maryhill, Glasgow, and a group of local residents settled, as much as one can settle anywhere …
26 January 2021 · · Morocco, Western Sahara · 1 comment
Western Sahara: A forgotten war
In its dying days, the Trump administration in the US brokered an agreement between Morocco and Israel, writes Patrick Scott . Morocco agreed to recognise and have full diplomatic relations …
17 January 2021 · · Reviews
Dear Comrades! These people have to be forgotten
Ironic Stalinism is making a bit of a comeback on social media among idiots who fancy themselves to be on the left and choose to find something amusingly unconventional about celebrating a m…
16 January 2021 · EU, Labour Party, Scotland · 1 comment
Leonard resigns, as Starmer abandons Scotland’s voters
Richard Leonard has bowed to the inevitable and resigned as Scottish Labour Party leader, just 16 weeks before the most critical Scottish Parliament elections since devolution on 6 May. The …
5 January 2021 · · Britain, Covid-19, Education, trade unions · 3 comments
Education workers teach Tories and Starmer the bleeding obvious
Last week the National Education Union (NEU) represented about 450 000 teaching assistants, learning mentors, premises staff, office workers and teachers in schools and colleges in England a…