Frontline
- Demonstrate Saturday 30 August - Campsfield, Oxfordshire
- Many hundreds of socialists and trade-unionists rallied in Codnor, Derbyshire, on 16 August, to show opposition to the fascist British National Party's "summer festival" being held on a farm near the village.
- The new issue of Tubeworker celebrates the cleaners' win, and assesses the strengths and weaknesses of the union's campaign. It also calls for the current crop of stations disputes to be escalated into an Underground-wide dispute against management injustices.
- The 16 August mobilisation showed up shortcomings in "Unite Against Fascism"
- A member of the AWL centrally involved in building the anti-RWB demonstration on 16 August 2008 spoke to Solidarity.
- According to the International Herald Tribune, the US government has agreed a schedule to withdraw troops from Iraq.
- An initiative has been launched to “draft” John McDonnell, the left-wing Labour MP who sought to challenge Gordon Brown for the Labour leadership after Tony Blair’s retirement, to contest the leadership again.
- The chair of the Government's official medical drugs-regulating body, has said that “the drugs are so expensive” because of the pharmaceutical companies’ drive for profits.
Battle of Ideas
- The discussion piece in Solidarity 3/136, "What if Israel bombs Iran?", provoked an explosion of website hysteria from a coalition of self-righteous people who, most of them, themselves support the Iranian mullahs having nuclear bombs, and who deny Israel's right to exist.
- Those "anti-Imperialists" on the "Left" who support the "right" of the Iranian clerical fascist regime to have nuclear weapons should be told that they are a bunch of confused reactionaries.
- A contact sheet distributed by the SWP defines the Holocaust as when the Nazis killed "thousands of LGBT people, trade unionists, and disabled people" - no mention of the six million Jews.
- In implying that those who leave the lecturers' union UCU over its boycott of Israel are right, the Engage group is effectively giving up on the left and the labour movement.
- Extracts from the discussion on this website on Iran, Israel, and nuclear weapons.
An attack on Iran will most likely lead to great carnage in the Middle East, and beyond ... Yet the plain fact is that nuclear bombs in the hands of a regime which openly declares its desire to destroy Israel are not something Israel will peacefully tolerate.- We must resist the method in politics that you allow yourself to see or note only those aspects of reality that fit your line, which are pre-selected by your "line" or doctrine...
Fred Moseley, Costas Lapvitsas, Leo Panitch, Simon Mohun. Trevor Evans, Dick Bryan, and Michel Husson on the current financial crisis and what it reveals about the dynamics of capital today.- What revolutionary socialism is, at root, about.
- The 1984-5 miners' strike was the greatest in British working-class history, a pivotal event for a whole generation.
- The theory that was the keystone of the SWP is examined in depth in this June 1999, 30,000 word article. APOLOGY: This article "in three parts" has been here, but with one of the parts missing. SORRY!
- I would not argue with Hal Draper using the phrase as a literary device in his "Two Souls of Socialism". But to go from that literary usage to making "socialism from below" our defining political label is wrong.
- Verse, mostly political, in the broad sense of political
- Lying about the AWL is a staple activity of the CPGB – but its coverage is now reminiscent of ‘third period’ Stalinism and the Healyite WRP at its lowest, and craziest, point.
- A contribution to the current debate within the AWL that argues for a working-class opposition to the regional imperialism of both Israel and Iran
Campaigns
- Debates on the union left about working class political representation
- An Open Letter to Tony Woodley, Unite-TGWU.
Events
- 28 Aug 2008 - 7:30pm
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