Solidarity 192, 9 February 2011

The Labour Party has to have real conferences

Jon Lansman, secretary of the Labour Party Democracy Task Force, spoke to Martin Thomas. Labour Party Democracy Task Force: http://labourdemocracy.wordpress.com . MT: In recent months, over 40,000 people have joined the Labour Party. That's quite a big figure in terms of today's politics. What's your assessment? JL: We don't really know the complexion of those numbers. Some may well be disaffected Lib Dems. However, it's pretty clear that some of them are people who've previously resigned from the party in disgust at previous shifts to the right and are now returning. That's good news. We want...

How to organise to change the world

The following speech was given by Workers' Liberty member Ed Maltby at a public debate with anarchist blogger Laurie Penny at the University of London Union on 27 January 2011. The title of the debate was "What kind of 'new politics?" Our starting point is that revolution is possible. We think that the working class - and only the working class - is capable of overthrowing capitalism and replacing it with something better. Students, people from different class backgrounds, and from different campaigns can have a role to play in this process but as auxiliaries to the working class. It's this...

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