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From the October edition of Hackney Socialist Unity
John McDonnell’s campaign for Labour Party leader is not only a fight against the fake-labour leaders of ‘New Labour’; it is a challenge for the entire labour movement.
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Jon Cruddas, the Labour MP for Barking and Dagenham who worked as Tony Blair's trade union fixer between 1999 and 2001, has officially announced his bid for Labour deputy leader and was due to hold a rally in Dagenham on the evening of 18 October to launch his campaign.
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This year’s programme of events at the Women’s Library in London focuses on prostitution. But a series of events completely excludes sex workers, sex workers‚ organisations, as well as anyone speaking from a perspective that supports sex workers’ and migrants’ struggles in the UK and abroad!
This is a serious political choice that calls for socialist feminists to make visible our dissent.
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by laura schwartz
On 21 October women from the student activist group Education Not for Sale have organised a conference, Feminist Fightback 06 (www.fightback.org.uk). In the course of organising that event they uncovered some hypocrisy of in parts of the feminist movement.
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By Sacha Ismail
North Korea’s underground detonation of a nuclear device on 9 October, with the threat of more tests to come, should be a cause of major alarm for the labour movement and left internationally.
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Jim Radford, a member of Lewisham Respect sent this letter to the Respect office on 8 October.
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Darren Bedford reviews Robin Hood (Saturday BBC1)
The traditional Robin Hood story goes like this. Young Saxon nobleman returns from King Richard’s crusade full of idealism and good-will towards his fellow man. He is outraged at the injustice that Richard’s brother, John, and his henchman like the Sheriff of Nottingham are perpetrating against the downtrodden Saxon peasantry.
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Harry Glass reviews The Fidel Casto Handbook by George Galloway
This is pure hagiography of the last grand Stalinist autocrats by one of his most loquacious apologists.
It is the modern equivalent of a biography of Josef Stalin by Stalinist Albanian supremo Enver Hoxha.
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Paul Hampton reviews Imperialism and Resistance by John Rees
John Rees is the new pope of the SWP, establishing himself since Tony Cliff’s death as the main driver of its politics. Yet his new book is remarkably thin: light on the substance of imperialism today, poor on arguments between socialists with absolutely monstrous political conclusions.
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By Dan Jakopovich
Fifty years have passed since the great uprising of the Hungarian people against the Stalinist dictatorship.
