Socialist Green Unity Coalition launch
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Date:
26 February, 2005 - 13:45
Location:
Room 3C, University of London Union, Malet Street, WC1
Socialist Green Unity Coalition
After No2EU: a slate in the general election?
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Mike Davies is the secretary of the Alliance for Green Socialism, one of the groups that joined the No2EU coalition at the Euro-elections in June. He spoke to Martin Thomas.
Left Unity: The Socialist Party responds
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At the Left Unity Liaison Committee meeting on 13 June, the Socialist Party said that it is not interested in a new Socialist Alliance for now.
Instead, it hopes to continue its “No2EU” alliance
Left Unity: SWP presents its left unity initiative
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The SWP has held meetings about its “left unity initiative” on the fringe of the Unison union conference and in Sheffield and other cities.
Ed Whitby reports from the meetings in Middlesbrough and Gateshead: “The SWP have little to say,
Left Unity: Progress in Newcastle
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In Newcastle we have a Tyneside Socialist Forum which has existed for a long time — before the Socialist Alliance.
It was relaunched last year. Along with AWL members it includes independent socialists, left anarchists, ex-CPers and some people from FRFI. It meets regularly and has political discussions, it could be the springboard for greater left unity.
Build a Socialist Alliance to fight back!
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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.
No unity in Scotland
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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].
Union leaders start to bark, but will they bite?
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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”.
Is the People’s Charter the answer?
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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.
Open letter to the left from the SWP; and the AWL's reply
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Open letter to the left from the SWP; and the AWL's reply
An open letter to the left from the Socialist Workers Party
It’s time to create a socialist alternative