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Ireland and the Revolutionary Tradition of Easter Week
From Labor Action, 14 April 1941
Easter Sunday morning, 1916. Three o'clock. James Connolly. Irish revolutionary leader, was talking to his daughter and some of her friends, all asking why the revolt so carefully prepared had been countermanded.
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11 articles on the SWP's political collapse into a decade of alliance with Islamic clerical fascism. Solidarity has commented on the SWP's ongoing political collapse at each stage.
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The National Union of Students national executive council meeting on 9 May unanimously passed policy from the National Campaign Against Fees and Cuts to demand
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70 years ago, on 22 May 1943, Stalin announced the formal shutting-down of the Communist International, the association of revolutionary socialist parties across the world set up after the Russian Revolution.
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Eighty years ago this week — 10 May, 1933 — organised book burnings took place in university towns throughout Germany.
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Chen Duxiu (1879-1942) was a founder of Chinese Communism and, later, a Trotskyist critic of Stalinism and Maoism.
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To its credit, Andrew Burgin's and Kate Hudson's Left Unity website has published a long article questioning the very basis of the project.
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Many of the people who left the SWP recently, and some others who quit SWP longer ago, have formed an “International Socialist Network”.
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The Socialist Workers' Party (SWP), reeling from the "comrade Delta" storm, has sought to reinvigorate its members by throwing them into campaigning against the bedroom tax and for the NHS.
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In the run-up to its 19th congress, on 11-13 April, the Greek Communist Party (KKE) pleasantly surprised us by publishing much debate, mainly in its paper Rizospastis.
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On the afternoon of 24 April, Rana Plaza, an eight-storey building housing textile factories in Savar, a suburb of the Bangladeshi capital Dhaka, collapsed. When rescuers gave up searching for survivors on 29 April, the official death toll was 380.
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The political situation makes a strong case for left unity.
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Warsaw wrote two brilliant chapters in its history during the war, and also entered a dark blot on its pages.
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John Stalker, former Deputy Chief Constable of Greater Manchester, wrote in the Daily Mirror of 14 April that "Britain has never been closer to becoming a police state than when Margaret Thatcher was in charge".
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The idea of a vacuum or gap on the left, much mentioned in discussions about the “Left Unity” project recently launched by Andrew Burgin and Kate Hudson, has been current, on and off, since 1968.
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Workers’ Liberty activists Karen Waddington and Jean Lane appeared on the BBC’s Big Question debate programme on Sunday 14 April, discussing Thatcher’s death.
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Some ridiculous things have been said during what passes for debate inside the now much-degraded and damaged Socialist Workers Party (SWP).
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The economic crisis has rocked the European Union (EU). In Britain, the Tories want a referendum on links with the EU, stoking up nationalism. Early socialist debates about the United States of Europe help us orientate in today’s conditions.
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In an online article the Socialist Party’s Hannah Sell tries to convince activists not to sign the statement initiated by Unison activists Marsha-Jane Thompson and Cath Elliot (“Our movement must be a safe place for women”).
