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DO official Labour politics offer any real hope today? Or must serious socialists, and even serious democrats, look instead to the revolutionary left?
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Workers' Liberty 3/3 (March 2006) reproduces many communist factory bulletins from the 1920s, and discussion from that era about how they should be produced. "Workers cannot write newspapers? Really? Just tell us some news about your factory". It also includes information on workplace bulletins produced by the AWL. Click here to download pdf.
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The labour movement can and must push back the Tory government on individual policies. To do more than damage limitation, however, the labour movement needs to drive this government from office.
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According to the latest opinion poll in Greece, on 15 March, the two main parties in Greece, the ones which European Union leaders hope will form a new coalition after the election due in late April or early May, stand at 23% (New Democracy) and 13.5% (Pasok).
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I’ve always been a bit uncomfortable with the expression “faith in the working class”, largely on account of the unavoidable connotation of belief without proof.
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In 1973, International Socialism, the theoretical journal of what is now the Socialist Workers Party, serialised the memoirs of the pioneering British Trotskyist Reg Groves, which later formed the basis of Groves’s The Balham Group: How British Trotskyism Began.
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ULU, Malet St, London WC1E 7HY
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The student protests have fundamentally shaken up politics in Britain. More and more people no longer believe that the Tories' cuts and attacks on the welfare state are unstoppable.
In this new period, what kind of politics does the left need? It's clear that it cannot be "business as usual" - we need to step up a gear.
Does that mean that Marxist ideas, focused on the working class and workplace/industrial struggle, are no longer relevant? What about the trade unions? Do we need political parties, or are they are a harmful distraction? Are differences on the left no longer relevant? Is the notion of socialist publications, promoting a definite program, an absurd anachronism, or more important than ever? What kind of organisations do we need to beat the Tories and overthrow their system?
* Laurie Penny is a journalist, and a feminist and anti-cuts activist in London.She has written for publications including Red Pepper, the New Statesman and the Guardian. Her article "Out with the old politics" sparked the current debate on structures and politics in the movement
www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2010/dec/24/student-protests-young-politics-voices
* Ed Maltby is a member of the national committee of the socialist organisation Alliance for Workers' Liberty
www.workersliberty.org/story/2011/01/03/why-revolution-will-not-be-tweeted
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St Matthew's Hall, Carver St, Sheffield
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Sebbon St Community Centre, Sebbon St, London N1 (behind Islington Town Hall)
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Much of the left’s response to the riots centred on the argument that the whole thing would’ve been positively progressive if only the “anger” or “rage” of rioting youth could have been successfully “channelled” or “directed”.
