Veronica Fagan
12 May 2020 · · Britain, Labour Party · 1 comment
Don’t despair, organise!
It’s not been an easy time for anyone on the left in Britain, writes Veronica Fagan. The pandemic and the appalling way the #ToxicTories have responded to it are obviously dominating most of…
8 April 2020 · · Labour Party · 3 comments
How should the left respond to Starmer's election?
Keir Starmer’s election as Labour leader is a serious defeat for the left, writes Veronica Fagan , and is further compounded by the results of the deputy leadership election, the NEC electio…
12 January 2020 · · Uncategorized · 8 comments
Defend the Corbyn project – elect the strongest continuity leadership team
The election of a majority Tory government on an explicit programme of further attacking the working class – through a brutal Brexit, an even more barbaric immigration regime. Further attack…
15 November 2019 · · Britain, Green Party · 4 comments
Greens in a pickle
Even before Labour’s manifesto is published, Corbyn and the front bench are rolling out a raft of radical announcements – critically the Green New Deal and defence of our NHS, writes Veronic…
10 June 2019 · · Sudan
#Iamsudanrevolution
A lively protest took place at Downing Street in defence of the Sudanese revolution – around 500 protestors; overwhelmingly Sudanese on Saturday June 8 writes Veronica Fagan . Women were ver…
24 February 2019 · · Uncategorized
Open selection and trigger ballots
Open Selection and trigger ballots Veronica Fagan examines how we make Labour MPs accountable to their members and the significance of the ‘Independent Group’. There was great deal of furore…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
5 October 2017 · · Labour Party
Transforming Labour
It’s difficult to convey the exhilaration felt by those present at Labour Party conference 2017; #Lab17. Some of the electric atmosphere seems to have reached those following through the med…
3 July 2017 · · Britain · 5 comments
Another world in sight?
One sign of a good demonstration is the numbers, writes Veronica Fagan . Over 100,000 was what was fed back from the stage of the #Kick out the Tories #Not one Day more march. It certainly w…
23 November 2016 · · Britain, Labour Party
A tale of two parties?
Veronica Fagan reports: Being in Liverpool during Labour Party conference was an extraordinary experience which I will struggle to adequately convey. In terms of what happened on conference …
1 November 2016 · · Britain
What does democracy look like?
Veronica Fagan looks at some of the issues Over the last few days there has been a lot of brouhaha about what’s happening with Momentum. Unpicking what is behind the controversies is complex…
10 May 2016 ·
Corbyn confounds the plotters
Veronica Fagan Labour’s Sadiq Khan decisively defeated Zac Goldsmith after the most disgustingly Islamaphobic campaign by the Tories. Khan won 57% against Goldsmith’s 43% to end eight years …
19 April 2016 ·
Corbyn continues to consolidate
Veronica Fagan looks at the position today: Jeremy Corbyn’s remarkable election as Labour leader was part of a broader radicalisation across Europe – the same process, in different condition…
22 January 2016 · · 1 comment
Corbyn consolidates his position
Veronica Fagan Jeremy Corbyn’s remarkable election as Labour leader was part of a broader radicalisation across Europe – the same process in different conditions which has seen the growing i…
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…
16 March 2008 · · 1 comment
Abortion – our bodies, our lives, our right to decide
By Veronica Fagan The fight for women’s right to control our own fertility is absolutely central to the fight for women’s liberation, and needs to be actively supported by all socialists. Wi…