Congress of the LCR
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Date:
20 January, 2006 - 09:00
Location:
Paris, France: to 22 January
Left groups and people
Going Nationalist
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Hugh Kerr:
Chris Bambery’s ‘The Left and the crisis’, a critique
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The political and economic consequences of the still-unfolding ‘crisis’ are many and varied. The ‘creative’ – as well as the destructive - function of capitalism in crisis is immense but in a number of instances, the trends and material realities we see around us can be traced far further back than 2008. The crisis has simply thrown them into sharp relief.
Historic leader of "Lutte Ouvriere" dies
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According to a post on the French Trotskyist website www.le-militant.org, Robert Barcia, also known as "Hardy", the long-time leader of the "Lutte Ouvriere" group in France, has died.
RTW, COR, NSSN: fight for anti-cuts unity!
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The “Coalition of Resistance” (initiated by Counterfire, a group of people who recently left the SWP) has called an anti-cuts conference on 27 November.
National meeting of "progressive, community, and socialist parties", 24 July 2010
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REPORT FROM THE NATIONAL MEETING OF PROGRESSIVE, COMMUNITY AND SOCIALIST PARTIES JULY 24th, RUGBY
When the WRP sued Socialist Organiser
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In the early 1980s, Gerry Healy's WRP - then an organisation of considerable assets, including a weekly paper, Labour Herald, sponsored by well-known Labour left figures, but edited day-to-day by a WRP member - sued Socialist Organiser (forerunner of Solidarity) for libel, and ran a big campaign in the labour movement against Socialist Organiser. These articles tell the story.
As we were saying: British Trotskyists and the beginnings of the welfare state in the 1940's
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For fifteen years now, the Tories have been chopping away at the Welfare State constructed after 1945 on the basis of the 1942 Beveridge report. Back in 1942, the Marxists of the Workers’ International League [WIL] were already pointing out that any capitalist Welfare State would be unviable, likely to break down with mass unemployment.
The 'Loftus affair' and the left in the unions
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The behaviour of Britain’s two biggest revolutionary socialist organisations where they have trade-union positions is coming to resemble more that of the old Communist Party than any of the best elements of the Trotskyist tradition both the SWP and SP claim affinity with.
Bob Spink MP on the People's Charter
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The People's Charter, a document launched mainly by people around the Stalinist Communist Party of Britain/Morning Star, has succeeded in securing the backing of a substantial section of the labour movement bureaucracy; indeed, it has now been officially endorsed by the TUC.