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29 July 2021 · Uncategorized
Introduction to Marxist Theory by Ernest Mandel
Introduction to Mar xist Theory contains a selection of essays on key subjects Mandel worked on: the theory of the state, imperialism, reformism, and bureaucracy. “The Leninist Theory of Org…
22 July 2021 · Uncategorized
In view of the popular mobilizations in Cuba and imperialist aggressions
End the imperialist economic blockade of Cuba now! For a free and sovereign Cuba Down with imperialist interference in Cuba! For socialist democracy in Cuba! On July 11 we witnessed protests…
12 July 2021 · Uncategorized
Wales’s new Climate Change Ministry bodes well for the future – possibly
Red-Green Labour’s Sean Thompson gives a cautious welcome to Welsh Labour’s plans. In May’s Welsh Senedd elections, Labour equalled its best result since the Welsh Assembly was established i…
9 July 2021 · Uncategorized
Rayner O’Connor Lysaght Presente!
We are saddened to learn Rayner Lysaght has passed. Rayner Lysaght was a lifelong revolutionary Marxist, historian and author. He edited and introduced the IIRE Notebook “ October Readings: …
31 March 2021 · Uncategorized
Politics in Britain is entering a new phase
By the Socialist Resistance editorial committee . The successful vaccine roll out by the NHS and Starmer’s right wing gallop has given Johnson a shot in the arm. Polls put the Tories 7% ahea…
21 December 2020 · · Culture, Reviews, Uncategorized · 2 comments
“I will show your illustrious Lordship what a woman can do”
The Art and Life of Artemisia Gentileschi (1593- 1654) Dave Kellaway reviews the current National Gallery exhibition (until 24 th January) Caravaggio (left), Gentileschi (right) The pictures…
14 December 2020 · Uncategorized
SR and Anti-Capitalist Resistance
Socialist Resistance is enthusiastically participating in a process of convergence with Mutiny and individual comrades from a variety of other political backgrounds in England & Wales. The o…
27 November 2020 · · Uncategorized · 1 comment
From the Ground Up – the climate movement gets in shape for COP26
The surprising success of the online mobilisation, “From the Ground Up”, from 12-16 November, poses new challenges and new responsibilities for the climate movement, writes Iain Bruce . This…
12 October 2020 · · Uncategorized
Intersecting crises
The global world economy is currently in crisis as a result of a shock in the real economy caused by the coronavirus pandemic writes Susan Pashkoff. There is also an ecological crisis that r…
6 October 2020 · Britain, Scotland, Uncategorized, trade unions
Trade unionists rally for Richie Venton and extend action
Trade unionists across Britain and Ireland are rallying to support Richie Venton following his sacking at IKEA Glasgow. Mike Picken reports from Glasgow. A veteran trade union and socialist …
3 October 2020 · Uncategorized
End the hostile environment – defend asylum seekers and refugees
Fred Leplat and Mike Picken analyse the latest Tory plans to make the Hostile Environment even more cruel and call for support for the weekend of action on 10-11 October by Migrants Organise…
25 September 2020 · · Britain, Scotland, Uncategorized, students
Stop blaming students – meet public health and testing needs!
As at 24 September over 1,000 university students across Scotland were in self-isolation after hundreds tested positive for Covid in the days before. In response to this escalation, the Univ…
3 September 2020 · Scotland, Uncategorized, trade unions
<strong>Resist Attacks on Scottish IKEA Workers</strong>
IKEA in Scotland have launched a savage attack on their workers’ rights and conditions in recent days. This has included sacking union representative, Richie Venton. Richie is a well known t…
31 August 2020 · Britain, Racism, Uncategorized · 7 comments
United Against Tory Brexit
It doesn’t matter how socialists voted in the 2019 referendum, argues Phil Hearse. What matters now is unity against the nationalist-racist Brexit of the Tories. So as far as the Left is con…
19 August 2020 · · Britain, Uncategorized, antiracism · 1 comment
Left unites to defend migrants
The day started with news that a yet unidentified sixteen year old Sudanese boy drowned in the English Channel trying to make his way into England writes Andy Stowe . That evening over one h…
17 August 2020 · Belarus, Uncategorized · 2 comments
Lukashenko out! Solidarity with the people of Belarus
Alexander Lukashenko, the corrupt dictator of Belarus a man apparently intent on making the country his family’s dynastic inheritance, tried to consolidate his weakening grip on power by hel…
10 August 2020 · Uncategorized
Oppressed on Many Fronts: Women's labour, disablism and the working class
This is an edited version of Susan Pashkoff’s contribution to the ACR meeting on the Working class and Oppressions. Susan’s introduction was followed by one from Nina Fortune. Both women spe…
5 August 2020 · Uncategorized
Anti-Capitalist Resistance
Socialist Resistance welcomes the initiative with Mutiny towards the possible creation of a new revolutionary anti-capitalist organisation. We have found ourselves to be increasingly in agre…
28 July 2020 · · Britain, Tories, Uncategorized · 3 comments
Obesity is a class issue
Using my eight-minute walk to the station to reflect on the Tories’ anti- obesity strategy I passed a chip shop, a branch of an omnipresent national sandwich chain offering all sorts of “ sw…
26 July 2020 · · Britain, Economics, Ecosocialism, Labour Party, Uncategorized · 1 comment
Relaunch Labour’s Green New Deal
According to the World Health Organisation, the Covid-19 pandemic is still accelerating globally; infections have doubled in the past six weeks, writes Alan Thornett . This is another sharp …
28 June 2020 · Mental Health, Uncategorized · 1 comment
Asylum and mental health in the COVID-19 lockdown
Ian Parker has the latest special issue of Asylum: Radical Mental Health Magazine . This pandemic, a function of ecological destruction under capitalism, intensifies every existing form of o…
26 June 2020 · Labour Party, Uncategorized, antisemitism · 6 comments
If They Come In the Morning
The Labour Party’s antisemitism witchhunt has just claimed its highest profile victim, with the sacking of Rebecca Long-Bailey from Starmer’s shadow cabinet for the crime of tweeting a link …
9 June 2020 · Britain, Covid-19, USA, Uncategorized · 1 comment
Global protests offer hope in time of fear
Why has the murder of George Floyd been the catalyst for an international radical wave of youth protests asks Andy Stowe ? Killings of black people by racist cops in the United States have b…
15 May 2020 · Labour Party, Palestine, Uncategorized
British Palestinians' letter to Labour's leadership candidates
My brothers, sister and I sent the letter below to the three Labour Party leadership candidates because we were increasingly horrified by their capitulation to the extreme Zionist lobby’s ou…
26 March 2020 · Uncategorized
Covid-19 crisis: issues facing workers
The entire world and its political-economic system has been turned upside down by the Covid-19 coronavirus crisis. Beliefs and ideologies preached as unchallenged gospel for decades are bein…
18 March 2020 · · Covid-19, Uncategorized · 1 comment
Pay the workers! Suspend rent and bill payments!
The Tories have known all along that something like this pandemic was coming writes Andy Stowe and coronavirus is starkly posing questions about austerity, profiteering, the control of produ…
5 March 2020 · · Uncategorized
Coronavirus: how should the left and labour movement respond?
Over the few days there has been a significant escalation of cases of coronavirus cases in Britain with numbers currently at 90 – more than double the figures of 40 two days earlier, writes …
29 February 2020 · · Culture, Reviews, Uncategorized
Greed – comedy with a kick
We are living through something of a golden age of class war cinema writes Andy Stowe. Joker offered us an urban rebellion against the rich; Parasite showed them getting their comeuppance fr…
12 February 2020 · Climate Change, Uncategorized
Thirteen theses on the imminent ecological catastrophe and the (revolutionary) means of averting it
I. The ecological crisis is already the most important social and political question of the 21st century, and will become even more so in the coming months and years. The future of the plane…
8 February 2020 · Middle East, Syria, Uncategorized
Syria: 9 years of struggle for democracy
S OCIALIST RESISTANCE - The movement for democracy which erupted in 2011 in Syria, alongside others in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA), gave hope that the Syrian people could overthr…
31 January 2020 · Reviews, Uncategorized
Heroism of reason
Livio Maitan, Memoirs of a critical communist. Towards a History of the Fourth International , Preface by Daniel Bensaid, translated by Gregor Benton, edited with and introduction by Penelop…
31 January 2020 · · Reviews, Uncategorized
1917 reviewed
You can tell 1917, directed by Sam Mendes, is an important film as I was able to watch it in my local cinema in a village in Carmarthenshire within a few days of its nationwide release, writ…
12 January 2020 · · Uncategorized · 8 comments
Defend the Corbyn project – elect the strongest continuity leadership team
The election of a majority Tory government on an explicit programme of further attacking the working class – through a brutal Brexit, an even more barbaric immigration regime. Further attack…
31 December 2019 · Britain, Tories, Uncategorized
British Conservative Party tacks right
The election of Boris Johnson as Prime Minister and the bitter defeat of the hopes of the Labour left represent a deeper cultural and institutional shift in the politics of the British Conse…
22 December 2019 · Britain, Uncategorized · 3 comments
Britain: 2019 election analysis – A victory for the Far Right. A crisis for the Left
The British ruling class has much to celebrate. Their party – the party of the rich and the corporations – has won its biggest majority since 1987. Our party – the party of working people – …
10 December 2019 · Uncategorized
An appeal in these turbulent times
Socialist Resistance needs some of your money £1500 solidarity appeal Socialist Resistance operates on a tight budget. We rely on donations from people who share our ideas. We are the only e…
12 November 2019 · Spanish State, Uncategorized
Sanchez’s election ploy fails as far right make big gains
Sanchez, the leader of the left of centre PSOE (Socialist Workers Party of Spain), thought that abandoning his attempts at forming a new coalition government after the April general election…
6 November 2019 · · Uncategorized · 1 comment
Sorry We Missed You… Don’t miss this film
If you take a look through the TV schedules for any particular week you will find a significant proportion of programming is so called ‘reality TV’, writes Dave Kellaway. These programmes ar…
10 October 2019 · Kurdish struggle, Middle East, Turkey, Uncategorized
Trump’s 'stab in the back' to the Kurdish national movement
In one more blatant display of his erratic character, political irresponsibility and human carelessness, US President Donald J. Trump abruptly announced on the night of Sunday 6 October, fol…
7 October 2019 · Uncategorized
Portugal returns an anti-austerity government
Portugal went to the polls on Sunday October 6 and gave the biggest share of the vote – but not an outright majority – to the Socialist Party. Instead Socialist Party government will be depe…
11 September 2019 · · Uncategorized · 5 comments
British politics in tumult
It is a tumultuous time in British politics, writes Susan Pashkoff . Parliament returned from its summer recess on September 3 to a new Prime Minister, Boris Johnson, elected by only Tory me…
1 July 2019 · Sudan, Uncategorized
Solidarity with the Sudanese Revolution
The uprising in Sudan, together with that in Algeria, has shown that the issues that lay behind the "Arab Spring" which started in Tunisia in 2010 have certainly not been resolved. The Arab …
27 May 2019 · Britain, Labour Party, Uncategorized · 1 comment
Labour should be the anti-Brexit party
The message the EU election results send to the Labour party Leadership could hardly be more stark: get off the fence over Brexit or risk losing the next general election as well – particula…
24 April 2019 · Britain, EU, Labour Party, Uncategorized · 1 comment
Dangers for Labour in the EU elections
Unless there is a last-minute deal between Labour and May, which fortunately looks highly unlikely, we are facing EU elections on May 23 rd – something that will pose major problems for both…
21 April 2019 · · Uncategorized · 1 comment
The killing of Lyra McKee
When Gerry Adams was an IRA commander in the Ballymurphy area of Belfast he used the riots that local young people conducted in defence of their area against the British army as an opportuni…
16 April 2019 · Uncategorized · 1 comment
Delusional Thinking from a Bygone Age
Why Martin Kettle is wrong about the Tory right Martin Kettle, Guardian columnist and longtime Blairite, has written a piece in the Guardian (11/4/19) claiming that whatever happens next, “t…
30 March 2019 · · Britain, EU, Far right, Tories, Uncategorized · 1 comment
Second referendum moves closer
It was yet another momentous week in British politics, writes Alan Davies . As well as an ongoing constitutional crisis, it saw significant progress towards a second referendum and a fresh a…
3 March 2019 · · Uncategorized · 1 comment
Farming, Food and Nature
As the US Ambassador tells Britain that a post-Brexit trade deal would have to allow chlorinated chicken and hormone beef into the country, Alan Thornett reviews Farming, Food and Nature: Re…
1 March 2019 · Uncategorized · 6 comments
Defend Corbyn against the AWL
Just as the latest round of witch hunting antisemitism allegations against Jeremy Corbyn has reached its crescendo something particularly vile has emerged from the woodwork – a 2400-word ope…
24 February 2019 · · Uncategorized
Open selection and trigger ballots
Open Selection and trigger ballots Veronica Fagan examines how we make Labour MPs accountable to their members and the significance of the ‘Independent Group’. There was great deal of furore…
21 February 2019 · Uncategorized
Growing threat from far right upsurge
The ‘No Pasaran!’ conference in London on 2 March has been called in response to the growing wave of far-right breakthroughs internationally. PHIL HEARSE investigates. December’s regional el…
20 February 2019 · · Climate Change, Ecosocialism, Uncategorized, Youth
The climate is changing – why aren’t we?
I’m in my mid-sixties and have been politically active since my late teens, writes Terry Conway . This week I have had one of the most positive political experiences of my life, supporting y…
29 January 2019 · · Britain, Labour Party, Uncategorized · 2 comments
Labour's Immigration Bill fiasco
Diane Abbott, John McDonnell and Jeremy Corbyn are distinguished by political careers devoted to anti-racism and defending migrants’ rights writes Andy Stowe . So, it’s entirely legitimate t…
24 January 2019 · Uncategorized
Against the coup intervention in Venezuela!
This statement was issued by the PRT, Mexican section of the Fourth International, on 23 January 2019. The Workers’ Revolutionary Party (PRT) stands emphatically against the new attempted co…
9 January 2019 · Britain, Culture, Uncategorized · 6 comments
£350 million and Turkey
See if you can guess where this quote comes from asks Andy Stowe who reviews Brexit: The Uncivil War. “The whole country — the whole world — can see our rotten parties have failed us. The pa…
17 December 2018 · · Uncategorized · 3 comments
The Home Office is guilty of harm, not us: Stansted 15 respond to guilty verdict
On December 10, fifteen protestors who prevented a government flight taking off from Stansted airport were found guilty of breaching rarely used anti-terror laws, writes Veronica Fagan . The…
15 December 2018 · Uncategorized
A winter's tale: no room on the ward
John Lister , editor Health Campaigns Together, writes for Socialist Resistance on the state of the NHS facing another winter and discusses what next for the campaigns to save our NHS. Winte…
9 December 2018 · · Uncategorized
Another Europe Is Possible ready to challenge Brexit
The first conference of Another Europe Is Possible (AEIP),which took place in London on December 8 th , was arranged rather hastily writes Alan Thornett . A draft strategy document and const…
31 July 2018 · Asia, Uncategorized
Pakistan elections: what change?
The general elections in Pakistan have brought Imran Kahn to power with the slogan “a new Pakistan”. Farooq Tariq , a leading member of the Awami Workers Party, explains that little will cha…
25 July 2018 · · Ecosocialism, Europe, Uncategorized
Fires in Greece: the politics of natural disasters
The government has persistently allowed private interests in construction, industry and tourism to be prioritised over serious ecological and safety concerns, writes Kleanthis Antoniou , a s…
13 March 2018 · · Britain, Labour Party, Uncategorized · 1 comment
Austerity, Brexit and the Corbyn challenge
After the harshest winter for more than a decade, Britain finds itself still gripped by the icy fingers of neoliberal austerity, writes Phil Hearse . Both the health service (NHS) and local …
16 January 2018 · Uncategorized
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16 December 2017 · · Ecosocialism, Labour Party, Uncategorized · 1 comment
Corbyn to make politicians pensions greener
This week, Labour Party leader Jeremy Corbyn and Shadow Chancellor John McDonnell signed the pledge for the Fossil Free UK campaign to Divest Parliament , writes Joe Walsh The Parliamentary …
17 August 2017 · USA, Uncategorized
Charlottesville Virginia and the failure of legitimisation of the Far Right
The “Unite the Right” demonstration held in Charlottesville Virginia on the 12 th of August was meant to be a turning point for the far right in the US. Using the excuse of the removal of a …
11 August 2017 · · Reviews, Uncategorized
Love is not enough
Andy Stowe reviews Naomi Klein’s new book “ No Is Not Enough ” on Trump’s rise and her plan for defeating him. The first thing that hits you reading this very useful summary of the reasons b…
8 August 2017 · Uncategorized
Corbynism arrives in Australia
Greens Senator Lee Rhiannon, the standard bearer for a more radical politics in the Australian Greens, has found herself compared to Jeremy Corbyn but the impact of Corbyn may be more signif…
26 March 2017 · Uncategorized · 1 comment
Momentum looks to the future
Brian Standish reports from the March 25th Momentum Conference in Birmingham. It was well attended - probably about 500 people and it was standing room only in the plenary sessions as a good…
11 February 2017 · Middle East, Reviews, Tunisia, Uncategorized
Brothers in power
Return to the Shadows: The Muslim Brotherhood and An-Nahda since the Arab Spring, Saqi, 2016 £16.99 reviewed by Farooq Suleheria The phenomenon of the Muslim Brotherhood (MB) is a vital case…
2 February 2017 · · Labour Party, Uncategorized · 2 comments
Corbyn’s relaunch
Susan Moore looks at what the Labour leader has been doing since Christmas: Corbyn’s relaunch since the start of the year has seen him take a more combative and pro-active approach in puttin…
2 January 2017 · · Reviews, Uncategorized
Why isn't God answering?
Andy Stowe reviews Silence by Martin Scorsese. Any film about Jesuit missionaries that has Ad maiorem Dei gloriam ( f or the greater glory of God), the Catholic order's motto, as the opening…
10 November 2016 · · USA, Uncategorized · 2 comments
How did this racist win?
Mark Findlay analyses the results and considers some of the fall-out from the election of Donald Trump as US president... President-elect Trump is an open racist, misogynist and homophobe. L…
2 June 2010 · Uncategorized · 6 comments
ALBA countries must support Tamils not Sri Lanka’s War Criminal Government
Eva Golinger is known for her counter-intelligence analysis in the service of Venezuela’s peaceful revolution against the local oligarchy and the United States Empire. She is a noted author …