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...