Henry Suss: A tragic old Stalinist militant dies; what his life says to allies of Islamic clerical fascism now
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by Sean Matgamna
Solidarity 3/97, 10 August 2006
Trotsky on the national question
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By Leon Trotsky
Note:
Leon Trotsky was murdered by an agent of the Stalinist USSR in August 1940. Leon Trotsky was a great defender of the traditions pursued by the Bolshevik Party when they made a revolution in Russia in 1917. One of the Bolshevik’s great contributions to socialist ideas was their approach to the national question.
An open letter to a demonstrator against the war on Lebanon
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Stop the slaughter!
Israel out of Lebanon!
Stop rocket attacks on Israeli civilians!
This is a demonstration against Israel and the USA. We are together here because we oppose the policy and "strategy" of Bush and Blair... most of the ideas and more or less all of the policies advocated by the leaders of the ‘Stop the War Coalition’ make no sense... You hold to some or all of the following ideas.
The slow suicide of the left
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BY THOMAS CAROLAN
This article will do no more than tabulate some of the symptoms and some of the causes of the political and moral chaos that has engulfed the erstwhile “revolutionary left”. In pursuit of “anti-imperialism” the most numerous force on the left — the SWP — is now in close alliance and makes solidarity with clerical-fascists such as Hamas and Hizbollah.
Stop the slaughter!
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The Israeli armed forces have inflicted a vast destruction on the infrastructure of Lebanese economic and social life. They have killed hundreds of civilians.
Who are Hizbollah?
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By Clive Bradley
The Lebanese political system, from 1943 until its collapse in the 1970s, enshrined the religious divisions in the population. There was a Christian president, a Sunni Muslim prime minister (and a much weaker Shi’a Speaker of the House); parliamentary seats were allocated with six Christians to every five Muslims.
The left that backs Hizbollah
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By Ruben Lomas
“Only they who can keep their heart strong and their will as sharp as a sword when the general disillusionment is at its worst can be regarded as a fighter for the working class or called a revolutionary.”
Antonio Gramsci
Against two states
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By Paddy Dollard
Socialist Worker has come out against a two-state solution to the Jewish Arab conflict (Alex Callinicos, SW 5 August).
The French far-left responds
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Joan Trevor looks at what some of the French left say about Lebanon
In an unusual collaboration, the Ligue Communiste Révolutionnaire (LCR) issued a statement jointly with the French section of the Lebanese Communist Party (PCL) for the demonstration in Paris on 29 July.
Defend Monica Ali!
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By Dan Katz
Following a small — 60-strong — march in Brick Lane, East London, the companies involved in making a film of Monica Ali’s novel, Brick Lane have unfortunately caved in to the protestors’ demand that they stop filming in the area.