Labour Representation Committee

LRC conference says: workers against capital, not nations against Europe

Author: 
Martin Thomas

The eurozone crisis was one of the main debates at the Labour Representation Committee conference in London on 19 November 2011. A motion from AWL urging Europe-wide workers' solidarity against capital, to remake Europe, and rejecting "anti-euro" or "anti-EU" stances as diversionary, was carried. We hope this will be the starting point for the LRC initiating a serious debate in the labour movement and on the left about the necessary response to the European-wide capitalist crisis.

People's Convention: the signs are not good

Author: 
Sacha Ismail

The “People’s Convention” against cuts called by SWP and LRC on 12 February should be a chance to make good the damage done by the SP’s coup in the National Shop Stewards’ Network (creating a new SP-line “anti-cuts movement”) and the Coalition of Resistance (anti-cuts campaigning as an exercise in listening to lots of celebrities speak).