Solidarity 3/151
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Solidarity 3/151, 14 May 2009
Pakistan: “Unite those opposing both Taliban and military”
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The Swat situation is complicated. Both sides, the religious fanatics and the government are trying different tactics and are not sure which one will work. The prices for their blunders is paid by ordinary people of the area.
The Taliban settled in Swat long ago and were integrated in the area.
A story of imperialists
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Rosalind Robson reviews Radio 4’s dramatisation of J G Farrell’s The Siege of Krishnapur (Sundays 3pm)
I very much enjoy historical novels but JG Farrell’s Booker Prize winning book (part of a trilogy about the British Empire) had until now, escaped my notice.
Hope and its discontents
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Review of Unforgiving Years by Victor Serge (New York Review of Books, 2008)
Richard Greeman’s translation of Serge’s final novel is yet another blow struck against Stalinist despotism and for the recovery of an authentic socialist tradition from the ‘midnight in the century’ of totalitarianism.
Every act of solidarity counts
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Fighting migration controls is grinding, a daily and often terrible battle, mostly fought by individuals and small groups of people. Often it is inspiring. But there is a lot going on.
On Thursday 7 May Ayodeji Omotade was acquitted by Brent Magistrates Court of threatening and abusive behaviour.
“Anyone but BNP” is not enough
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The victory of at least one BNP MEP in the upcoming Euro-elections now looks almost inevitable. To accept this is not to collapse into nihilism or to admit defeat, but to indict the New Labour, Tory and Lib Dem councillors and MPs across the country.
Their policies of cuts and privatisation have created the conditions in which the BNP — posing as a populist alternative to the establishment — have been allowed to grow.
Anti-BNP campaign offers working-class politics
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On Sunday 10 May around twenty anti-fascists from the Nottingham Stop the BNP campaign distributed 3,500 leaflets in Bulwell, north of the city centre. This area, which in the 1980s elected a Communist Party councillor, has been targeted by the fascist British National Party (BNP) for several months.
Ideas For Freedom 2009
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The AWL’s annual event will this year focus on the capitalist crisis, and on socialist and working-class responses to it.
Barnet battles sheltered housing cuts
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If there had been a national debate on the fate of sheltered housing for the elderly, the cuts that are happening around the country could never have gone ahead!
Why? Because the vast majority of people want to retain sheltered housing and are appalled to learn that it is disappearing.
Council tries to bully workers into silence
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Members of Unison employed by Wirral council have been threatened with immediate suspension if they express their opposition to council cuts and job losses publicly.