What Is a Marxist Perspective?
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What We Are And What We Must Become [SECTION 3]
VULGAR MATERIALISM AND PLATONIC PERSPECTIVES
By Rachel Lever, Phil Semp and Sean Matgamna
The AWL, Labour and the left
Letters and replies from Workers' Liberty 7, October 1987
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Letters and replies sent to Workers' Liberty 7, October 1987:
* Zionism, Israel and the play, 'Perdition': Tony Greenstien and John O'Mahony
* Not an inch! Geoff Bell replies to Workers' Liberty on Northern Ireland
* Kitch-Trots tango: John Alloway on the Workers' Revolutionary Party's (WRP) call for an open conference of Trotskyist Groups.
ELECTION 87 - No, Socialism is not dying!
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Labour gained ground slightly during the 1987 British general election campaign - the first time it had done so since 1959. But the Tories still won. The central lesson - Neil Kinnock said it, and he was right - is that you don't win an election in four weeks.
Tony Benn's Socialist Manifesto 1987
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In 1987 Tony Benn submitted a draft Socialist Manifesto to the Labour Party's National Exacutive Committee with the aim that it be discussed and voted on at the 1987 Conference. We republish that document here.
Jack Jones: Rotten Politics, Not a Spy Story!
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According to the official history of MI5, Britain’s spy-hunters considered Jack Jones, the leader of the Transport and General Workers’ Union in the 1970s who died recently, to be a paid agent of the USSR.
The Left and Labour: Lessons from the 1979 General Election
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The following article was an "As We Were Saying" column in Socialist Organiser, in 1991, during the Walton by-election.
Illusions of Power part 7: Stay in the fight!
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The bitter experience of Labour in government in 1964-70 and in 1974-9 pushed many activists away from reformism and towards revolutionary socialism.
Illusions of Power part 8: Class Struggle or collaboration? A record of the dispute
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The recent political collapse of much of the local government left in face of the Tory offensive was not inevitable. Other and better things were possible.
Illusions of Power part 9: Support Edinburgh and Liverpool!
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Support Edinburgh and Liverpool!
Liverpool and Edinburgh councils are now moving towards a decisive confrontation with the Tories.
From the archive: 'First things first: defend Brick Lane'
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Introduction