Imperialism
Marxism and imperialism
Submitted on 24 April, 2007 - 14:03
Marxism and imperialism, by Martin Thomas
Solidarity with Iraqi workers
Submitted on 9 June, 2005 - 21:44
A Workers' Liberty/ Solidarity pamphlet, March 2005. £2 (UK postage free). Buy online here. For a selection of our coverage on Iraq since 2002-3, click here. For the latest coverage, scroll down on this page.
The new world disorder: war and imperialism
Submitted on 21 December, 2002 - 16:32
Number 2/3 of Workers' Liberty magazine is a special issue on "The new world disorder: war and imperialism".
For contents, and links to download articles from the magazine as pdf files, read on.
Thoughts on working-class internationalism
Submitted on 24 February, 2008 - 14:04
The left devotes much of its efforts to campaigning against imperialism, which is no surprise given the present foreign policy of the American and British governments.
London socialist-feminist dicussion group: Pornography, sexual explicitness, and women's oppression
Submitted on 24 January, 2008 - 00:03- Issues and campaigns
- 'No Sweat' events
- Abortion rights
- Academies
- Animal welfare
- Anti-Capitalism
- Anti-deportation campaigns
- Anti-Fascism
- Anti-Racism
- Aspland & Marcon estates
- Benefits
- Children
- Christianity
- Crime and Justice
- Democracy
- Disability rights
- Drug use
- Education
- Fighting anti-semitism
- Fighting global capitalism
- For equality, against bigotry
- Globalisation
- Housing
- Immigration & Asylum
- Islamism
- Left anti-semitism
- Lesbian, Gay, Bi
- Local Councils
- NHS and health
- Nuclear weapons
- Pensions
- Poverty
- Pre-school education
- Public services
- Religion & politics
- Religion and schools
- Schools
- Science
- Secularism
- Social and Economic Policy
- Social Forums
- Sweatshops
- Terror attacks
- Testing and tables
- The environment
- The media
- Travellers
- Utilities
- War and Terror
- Women's rights and Feminism
- Youth
- Further Education
- Universities
- Imperialism
- Marxism and women's liberation
Lucas Arms, 245A Grays Inn Road, near Kings Cross
In this meeting we will examine and critique different feminist views of pornography Some feminists argue porn is an expression of an exploitative “male culture” and is irredeemably oppressive to women At the other extreme some say that porn as sexually explicit material can benefit women’s sexual liberation What’s wrong/right about these views and the all the others in between?
Suggested reading:
Book
Latest (against porn): Pornography: Driving the Demand in International Sex Trafficking (2007) edited by David E. Guinn and Julie DiCaro; Captive Daughters Media
On the net
http://www.wendymcelroy.com/
author of the book XXX a Woman’s Right to Pornography available on her website
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Women_Against_Pornography: history of radical feminist anti-pornography campaign
www.fiawol.demon.co.uk: Feminists Against Censorship
https://www.againstpornography.org: loads of stuff against porn!
Two critiques: "Empire" and "new imperialism"
Submitted on 12 January, 2008 - 09:22
Download this article (pdf). It discusses the issues round “globalisation” by way of two critiques, of Negri-Hardt and of the “new imperialism” theory of John Rees, Alex Callinicos and other writers associated with the British SWP.
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When “aid” means evictions
Submitted on 22 November, 2007 - 13:08
Even with Labour and the Conservatives outdoing each other to be the party of big business and wealth, some poor people are still popular at Westminster — that is poor people in other countries. Laments for the scale of global poverty and a stern faced insistence on the need to do something about it are becoming the favoured recourse of every politician, most obviously Gordon Brown.
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The US in Iraq: holding on until 2009
Submitted on 14 September, 2007 - 16:42
The stated purpose of the USA’s troop “surge” in Iraq which started early this year was to damp down the country’s conflicts enough that the current US-friendly Iraqi government (or, maybe, a
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The left and ‘reactionary anti-imperialism’ - The theory of accommodation
Submitted on 15 August, 2007 - 23:42
By Clive Bradley
In Manuel Puig’s novel The Kiss of the Spider Woman, two men confront each other in a prison cell, somewhere in South America. One is a trashy movie-loving homosexual; the other a revolutionary, a guerrilla.
Imperialism and Anti-Imperialism In Kosova — a dialogue
Submitted on 3 August, 2007 - 23:42
The left and the Serb-Kosova-NATO War (1999)
By Sean Matgamna
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SWP and Islamic Clerical Fascism: poisoning the new anti-capitalists
Submitted on 20 June, 2007 - 14:05
By Martin Thomas
It is hard to see how the Socialist Workers Party’s pamphlet No to Bush’s War could convince anyone not already “on side” to oppose the war in Afghanistan.
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Some reflections on the Falklands war and the kitsch-left now
Submitted on 29 May, 2007 - 21:14
By Sean Matgamna
The two month "Falklands War" between Britain and Argentina in 1982 was a freak event. It was part of no larger conflict; no issue other than possession of the islands was involved.
Permanent revolution after Trotsky
Submitted on 25 May, 2007 - 23:02
By Clive Bradley
In latter-day Trotskyism the theory of 'permanent revolution'-- anti-landlord or anti-colonial revolution being merged with socialist revolution under the leadership of the working class -- has become a dogma, used more to obscure the fact of many colonies winning freedom on a capitalist basis than to enlighten. Clive Bradley discusses the issues.
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The "victory to Argentina" argument
Submitted on 18 April, 2007 - 19:38
This is how the "victory to Argentina" section of the WSL argued their case, in their major initial statement (WSL Internal Bulletin 7, June 1982).
SWP does another retrospective u-turn
Submitted on 6 April, 2007 - 17:30
In 1982, the Socialist Workers’ Party, still retaining bits of a “Third Camp” (independent working class) political tradition from its old slogan “Neither Washington nor Moscow, but international socialism”, took a roughly similar attitude on the British-Argentine war over the Falkland Islands to that of Socialist Organiser, forerunner of Workers’ Liberty.
The “reactionary anti-imperialists”
Submitted on 2 April, 2007 - 15:45
“Reactionary socialism… half lamentation, half lampoon; half echo of the past, half menace of the future.”
Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels, The Communist Manifesto
AWL London forum: Capitalism, slave revolts and workers' solidarity
Submitted on 4 March, 2007 - 16:25
The official history of how slavery was ended emphasises wealthy philanthropists motivated by religious and liberal principles. In fact, revolts by the slaves themselves, and solidarity from workers and the poor in the developed capitalist countries, played a major role. Come and hear and discuss the hidden history of the abolition of slavery. Speaker: Paul Hampton.
The Plough, 27 Museum St, London WC1
Why we do not support the USA in Iraq
Submitted on 6 November, 2006 - 21:31
“The attempt of the bourgeoisie during its internecine conflicts to oblige all humanity to divide up into only two camps is motivated by a desire to prohibit the proletariat from having its own independent ideas.
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Imperialism, real and imaginary
Submitted on 1 September, 2006 - 22:13
Review by Paul Hampton of John Bellamy Foster and Robert W. McChesney eds. Pox Americana: Exposing the American Empire (Pluto) and Leo Panitch and Colin Leys eds. The Empire Reloaded: Socialist Register 2005 (Merlin)
How Europe underdeveloped Africa
Submitted on 23 March, 2006 - 15:19
By Chris Reynolds
In the Middle Ages, Ethiopia was not underdeveloped.
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The Grand Scheme
Submitted on 1 December, 2005 - 06:26
I see through your eyes
And I see through your brain
Like I see through the water
That runs down my drain
Bob Dylan, Masters of War
In order to demystify the post-September 11 situation it is helpful to briefly touch on the two basic claims of the warmongers which were bolstered by the tragedy of the attacks.
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"Empire and Beyond" - organised by Conference of Socialist Economists
Submitted on 12 November, 2005 - 01:19
What we do
Submitted on 4 November, 2005 - 09:34
The AWL held the second of our new series of political day schools on 22 October (in London) and 29 October (in Sheffield).
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AWL day school: "Globalisation and imperialism"
Submitted on 21 October, 2005 - 19:06Globalisation and imperialism: notes for AWL day school
Submitted on 19 September, 2005 - 12:36
Reading material, discussion points, and activity notes for AWL day school on "Globalisation and imperialism".
Two views of neo-liberalism
Submitted on 20 July, 2005 - 23:17
There is sharp disagreement about the nature and meaning of imperialism on the left, with two broad schools of thought emerging. Two recent books sum up the differences very clearly. Paul Hampton reviews John Bellamy Foster and Robert W McChesney eds. Pox Americana, Exposing the American Empire (Pluto) and Leo Panitch and Colin Leys eds. The Empire Reloaded: Socialist Register 2005 (Merlin)
Amendements sur l'impérialisme et sur le stalinisme (en francais)
Submitted on 15 June, 2005 - 08:13
Amendements de Paul Hampton sur l’impérialisme et sur le stalinisme
The anti-imperialism of fools
Submitted on 20 April, 2005 - 01:14
The Labour Party Pakistan (LPP) has produce a withering attack on the fake “anti-imperialism” of Islamist forces across the globe. An article by Farooq Sulehria contains a sharp rejection of these forces. Although we disagree with the LPP’s views on some other “anti-imperialists” discussed in the article, we welcome their honest and uncompromising stance.
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