Solidarity 039, 23 October 2003

More alliance, no socialism?

Things do not look good for the Socialist Alliance, the coalition of socialist groups and activists which gained some momentum in 2000 and ran 98 candidates in the 2001 General Election. A National Council meeting in Sheffield on 18 October voted to rally to the proposal for a mushy "progressive bloc" in electoral politics announced by George Monbiot and Salma Yaqoob in the Guardian of 13 October 2003. As is regrettably usual with the Socialist Alliance these days, this major political turn was not spelled out in any precise resolution. The Council's vote was to defeat a motion "that the...

INDUSTRIAL NEWS

Time to organise labour representation Underground pay referenda: Vote No! TGWU: why Dromey won University lecturers Support John Page Vote Agenda for Change Time to organise labour representation By Maria Exall At the Socialist Campaign Group Rally at Labour Party Conference Mick Rix called for trade unionists and Labour Party members to unite to ensure that the voice of labour was heard in the Labour Party. The idea of labour representation, the very idea on which the Labour Party was founded, is as necessary now as it was in 1900. The voices of working class people are mainly absent from...

The writing on the wall

The company he keeps No democracy, please, we're British Kibush A word in your ear The company he keeps During the last ESF preparatory meeting in Paris we found out that George Galloway had signed a petition "for the liberation of Tariq Aziz" who was captured in April by the invading US forces. Tariq Aziz was long a member of Saddam Hussein's government, its public face in the west. Why would any socialist expend a second in indignation at the US's extra-judicial treatment of Aziz? And when Galloway signed the petition he joined dodgy company. The petition was organised by AmitiÉs Franco...

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