Lenin and the Iraqi “resistance”
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The SWP isn’t keen on systematic discussion of ideas — but on the few occasions when its publications do make a nod towards theory, they tend to rely on a small number of well-worn quotations.
Solidarity 3/81, 6 October 2005
The deadly logic of "absolute anti-Zionism"
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Prêcheurs de Haine (Preachers of Hatred), by Pierre-André Taguieff, is a large scale, French-language study of “left-wing” “judeophobia”.
Don’t let markets kill the NHS!
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by rhodri evans
The Government is on the road to converting the Health Service from a provider of health care into an insurance system.
On anti-war slogans: lessons from two wars
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American socialist Barry Finger argues the case for calling for “troops out now” in iraq
Marxist dayschools: Why workplace activism?
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The Workers’ Liberty dayschools on “Marxists and the trade unions”, on Saturday 1 October were held simultaneously in Sheffield and London.
Socialist electoral unity
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The Alliance for Workers’ Liberty met with representatives of the Socialist Party, the Alliance for Green Socialism, and the Socialist Alliance (Provisional) for a Socialist Green Unity Coalition committee meeting on 2 October.
Romanticising violence
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Ruben Lomas reviews Green Street
After the Zombie plague
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Michael Wood reviews Land of the living Dead
When Dylan changed direction
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Laura Schwartz reviews Martin Scorsese’s film about Bob Dylan, No Direction Home, BBC2
No Direction Home was not about Dylan the man or Dylan the musician, but Dylan the icon. In telling the story of how Bob Dylan came to acquire and ultimately to reject the title of “voice of a generation”, Scorsese also treats him as a symbol — as an embodiment of the tension between art and politics.
Writing on the wall
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THEIR DISASTER RELIEF, AND OURS
The gross neglect and incompetence with which the US government responded to the New Orleans disaster is now well known.