Solidarity 444, 12 July 2017

Socialists and digital liberties

Digital liberties and free use of the internet are facing new threats in Britain, while there are increasing efforts by campaigners to establish a framework of rights that can safeguard online civil liberties. In response to the London Bridge terror attack, Theresa May called for new measures to regulate and monitor the internet, claiming that social networking was a potential breeding ground for the ideology of “Islamic extremism”. Shortly after, in the general election the Tory manifesto contained a section on “Prosperity and Security in a Digital Age”. It made vague promises to restrict...

SWP: fifth wheel of Corbynism?

There were about 500 at the opening rally of the SWP's "Marxism" summer event in London on 6 July. That's fewer than in some previous years, I think, and an older crowd - about a third grey or white-haired. Nevertheless, enough not to sneeze at, and the event will attract more over the weekend. The worrying thing was more the politics. Most of the rally was given over to speakers, some eloquent, from the Parts cleaners' dispute, the LSE cleaners' dispute, a Grenfell Tower campaign, the Scottish further education lecturers' dispute, and the campaign about Edson da Costa's death in custody. Two...

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