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Web resources on Yaqoob-Monbiot

Yaqoob-Monbiot manifesto, October 2003 Guardian report, 13 October 2003 Salma Yaqoob's article in Red Pepper , November 2003 George Monbiot's website Salma Yaqoob in the SWP's magazine Socialist Review , September 2003 . Editorial in Socialist Worker 1873, 18 October 2003 Report from Socialist Worker 1868 13 September 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...

Stockport Socialist Alliance motion on Monbiot-Yaqoob

Emergency Motion from Stockport Socialist Alliance to Socialist Alliance National Council 18/10/03 "National Council :- 1) notes the article published in the Guardian on 13 October 2003, reporting an initiative by anti-war activists, led by George Monbiot and Salma Yacoob, to form a coalition to challenge the Labour Party in next June's European and local elections and the indication therein that this group intends to approach socialist parties, anti-globalisation campaigners, peace activists and faith groups to join the coalition, which in the words of Mr. Monbiot can become a "genuine...

Class politics, not pink-green bloc

Socialist Alliance should not rally behind Monbiot-Yaqoob-Galloway Class politics, not pink-green bloc! AWL leaflet, 17 October 2003. Download pdf , or read the text here. The Socialist Alliance should not join the electoral alliance announced by George Monbiot and Salma Yaqoob in the Guardian of 13 October 2003. Instead it should look towards a new, democratic, open and vigorous alliance of class-struggle socialists. Hundreds of thousands of young people are coming to define themselves as anti-capitalist. Hundreds of thousands were drawn into political activity for the first time by the...

S. Birmingham SA on Monbiot-Yaqoob

A. Resolution passed by South Birmingham Socialist Alliance on 15 October 2003 1. This meeting notes the Guardian report (13 October) stating that journalist George Monbiot and anti-war activist Salma Yaqoob are launching a new electoral coalition for the Euro-elections in summer 2004. 2. We note that the Green Party has already condemned the initiative as a spoiling exercise that contains little more than "summaries of Green Party policy". 3. We note that the "new turn" policy agreed by the May Socialist Alliance conference was motivated on the explicit basis that the Socialist Alliance would...

Yaqoob-Monbiot manifesto

Circulated to SA executive. Covering note from SA office: Please find included within the NEC papers a document entitled Principles of Unity that has been drafted by Salma Yaqoob and George Monbiot. They have forwarded this to the SA Task Group, amongst other organisations and individuals, for our consideration. This initiative should be seen as a part of the process to forging a credible left alternative. Salma and George are clearly in the process of producing a Manifesto which they believe could contribute to bringing the forces of the left together. We intend to discuss their ideas on the...

Socialist Alliance to be sunk in pink-green bloc?

According to a report in the Guardian of 13 October 2003, greenie journalist George Monbiot and Muslim anti-war activist Salma Yaqoob are launching a new electoral coalition for the Euro-elections and local elections in summer 2004. The Guardian reports that Monbiot and Yaqoob have already circulated a draft manifesto. Green Party figures have seen the it, and condemn the initiative as a spoiling exercise because the manifesto contains little more than "summaries of Green party policy". To all appearances, this initiative is the practical embodiment of the "new turn" or "new coalition" policy...

Working out an alternative

By Cathy Nugent Sixty or seventy Socialist Alliance "oppositionists" met in Birmingham on 13 September - non-aligned socialists as well as representatives of the Alliance for Workers' Liberty, CPGB (Weekly Worker), International Socialist Group and Revolutionary Democratic Group. The meeting had been called to discuss infractions of democracy in Alliance, particularly in Birmingham where newly signed up SWP members of the Alliance managed to remove the entire Executive of the local Alliance. Most of the meeting was spent discussing the problems in the Alliance and with the SWP's role in it...

Statement: for a working-class challenge to Blair

To add your signature to this statement, please email or write to the address below . We the undersigned believe that with New Labour's shutting-down of the political space that used to exist within the Labour Party, it is urgent for socialists to work to restore channels of independent working-class political representation. Organised workers should have a voice of our own in politics, independent of the politicians of the wealthy classes. We want an electoral coalition of the left, but on a working-class basis. For that reason we find the current proposed basis of the "Respect" coalition...

Stop the rot in the Socialist Alliance

In June the Socialist Workers Party packed a meeting of the Birmingham Socialist Alliance with newly signed-up SWP members to remove the entire Executive of the local Alliance-and replace them with SWP members and fellow travellers. The SWP had been promoting the idea of a "Peace and Justice" candidate for next year's Euro-election-mounted jointly with the leaders of the local mosques-that is, an alliance with a religious hierarchy. Comrades in Birmingham, fearing rightly that such an alliance would be a betrayal of independent working-class politics, rejected the SWP policy. Those comrades...

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