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The AWL and the Socialist Alliance
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SWP pushes through SA shutdown, February 2005
Socialist Alliance minority resists shutdown, 13 March 2004
The future of the disrespectful left, January 2004
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City Parish Small Hall, Brintons Road, Southampton
Cathy Nugent on the Socialist Green Unity Coalition, the AWL-Socialist Party-Alliance for Green Socialist-SADP link-up for the 2005 general election.
Cathy Nugent on the Socialist Green Unity Coalition, the AWL-Socialist Party-Alliance for Green Socialist-SADP link-up for the 2005 general election.
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Uni of London Union, Malet St, London WC1, room 101
Open to all who were Socialist Alliance members in 2003 and 2004.
Open to all who were Socialist Alliance members in 2003 and 2004.
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United Services Club, Gough Street, Birmingham
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About 60 socialists, activists and trade unionists attended a Tyneside Socialist Forum open meeting about left unity on 15 July.
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Several dozen activists in the North East have signed the call issued by Workers’ Liberty for a new Socialist Alliance.
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The AWL has launched this appeal to socialist and working-class organisations and activists. So far the response from the SWP (Socialist Workers’ Party) and SP (Socialist Party) at national level has been negative, but many individuals have signed it.
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According to an Open Letter distributed in Glasgow by members of Solidarity (the 2006 breakaway from the Scottish Socialist Party (SSP)), which has also been posted on the Socialist Unity website:
“It is our understanding that a group of prominent Scottish trade unionists linked to none of the parties of the left in Scotland are in the formative stages of brokering left unity talks specifically on the issue of the Glasgow North East constituency [i.e. Michael Martin’s seat, where a by-election is due to be called].
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Paul Kenny, general secretary of the GMB general union, used his speech to the GMB congress in Blackpool (15 June) to call for the Labour Party to select “fresh working-class candidates that people can relate to”.
“Now is the time to select and elect 40 to 50 fresh real people, real trade unionists, people who actually know how much a pint of milk costs, and what it is like to get on a bus, MPs driven by commitment rather than being worried about being driven by a chauffeur”.
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The groups involved in the “No2EU” coalition for the Euro-election — the RMT union leadership group around Bob Crow, the Communist Party of Britain (Morning Star), the Socialist Party, and the Alliance for Green Socialism — are due to meet again before 28 June to discuss a “son of No2EU” project for the coming general election.
