Workers' Liberty

Paul Hampton of Workers' Liberty debated with Bernard Regan, a leading member of the Socialist Teachers' Alliance, at a London Workers' Liberty meeting.

1. Fred Moseley: The Long Trends of Profit
2. Costas Lapavitsas: A New Sort of Financial Crisis
3. Leo Panitch: The Crisis Depends on the Fightback
4. Simon Mohun: An Era of Rampant Inequality

The British line was consistently directed toward fomenting the Pan-Arab reaction against the partition.

What follows is an account of the politics on Ireland of the Trotskyist Tendency, the forerunner of AWL, especially in 1968-70 — that is, of one side in the dispute in IS (forerunner of the SWP), which previous articles have described.

What is the socialist movement?... To a contemporary Socialist the socialist movement does not look anything like it did to a [utopian] Socialist in the [18]30s [for whom] 'future history resolves itself into propaganda and the practical implementation of their social plans...

This article argues that a renewed socialism for the 21st century will be based on independent working class politics. It uses the “Third Camp” as a formula for summing up this essential element for Marxist history and for current intervention in the class struggle. China represents a fertile example in both these respects.

1. Gangster rap! Lenin and Joe Columbo
2. As rich as Rockefeller
3. And Shakespeare, which group was he in?
4. Walking on the moon: Wernher von Braun
5. The 1984-5 Miners' Strike and the Fate of the Pet Pig
6. Who says cannibalising people is wrong?
7. The Voyage of Vladimir Columbus (verse)
8. Conrad Black, Aristocrat of the purse
9. The Hunting of Witches and Ms Clare Short MP
10. When Margaret Thatcher turned on the Tory Right
11. The Market Theory of Left Wing Groups
12. After the Dictatorship of the Lie (verse)

Nuclear power is dangerous, expensive and unnecessary to cut global greenhouse gas emissions. It is bound up with nuclear weapons. We should oppose the expansion of nuclear power in today’s conditions of capitalist globalisation.

Les Hearn contributes to our debate about nuclear power

Earth’s climate has changed many times throughout its four billion year history and it seems beyond doubt that it is changing once again. But this is the first time that a single species has been responsible for the change.

Solidarity’s recent discussion of the dangers posed by global warming raises the question of how we find alternative energy sources to burning fossil fuels.

By Leon Trotsky (August 1937)

Reactionary epochs like ours not only disintegrate and weaken the working class and isolate its vanguard but also lower the general ideological level of the movement and throw political thinking back to stages long since passed through.