Peter Taaffe: "The ‘no-fly zone’, the Left and the ‘Third Camp’"
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Peter Taaffe, leader of the Socialist Party, writes another polemic against AWL.
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TUSC shrivels
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The three left-of-Labour sitting councillors up for election on 5 May all lost.
Scottish left is in a story state
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Calling for a Labour vote, combined with rebuilding the left and pushing the unions to assert themselves politically, is the only serious left policy in Scottish Parliamentary elections on 5 May.
"General strike" on 26 March demo
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There were hundreds of placards on the TUC anti-cuts demonstration with the words “General strike” — produced by the SWP and, in a new development, the Socialist Party.
Egypt: what the left is saying
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Socialist Worker’s coverage of the Egyptian uprising is useful because their comrade, Judith Orr, is on the ground and thus able to paint a vivid and often moving picture of the burgeoning movement.
SP sets up its own anti-cuts movement
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The conference of the National Shop Stewards' Network in London on 22 January, voted 305 to 89 for a Socialist Party motion to set up a third national anti-cuts coordination to compete with Coalition of Resistance and Right to Work.
Aim: a united stewards' movement
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Dave Chapple, chair of the National Shop Stewards’ Network (NSSN), spoke to Solidarity about the NSSN conference on 22 January which will discuss proposals from the Socialist Party to set up another anti-cuts centre in rivalry with CoR and Right To Work.
Afghanistan: the countryside's revenge
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“I lived in Kabul for two years as a child, right before the Russians invaded in 1979,”
"The future of the National Shop Stewards' Network"
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National Shop Stewards Network committee members have objected to moves by the Socialist Party towards presenting the NSSN as the sole coordination of the anti-cuts battle, and maybe as an electoral vehicle.