Socialist Resistance
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France’s New Anti-capitalist Party seeks to cover up its support for Middle East wars By Alex Lantier
In an attempt to salvage what little remains of his “socialist” credentials, Professor Gilbert Achcar, a longtime associate of France’s New Anti-capitalist Party (NPA), has written an essay entitled “Inventive Illiteracy Amidst Petty Sectarianism.” Continue reading
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UK Event: Revolutionary realignment, democracy and the new left
Recent changes on the British left have opened up the prospect for revolutionary regroupment for the first time in many years. They equally pose the question of a different type of unity that brings those from diverse radical traditions together. Can we form a plural, heterodox, and effective anticapitalist tendency in Britain? A panel of… Continue reading
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UK: Forward to a broad party of the left?
Phil Hearse reports on the first meeting of Left Unity’s National Co-ordinating group which took place in Doncaster on Saturday June 15. Continue reading
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Syria: One Country, Two Stories By William Bowles
‘Human rights’ for the West is a malleable notion, utilized as a political and ideological weapon to be applied most selectively and discriminately, according to which ‘side’ the government of any particular country happens to be on (and of course, it’s ability to resist). And it can perform this double act in full knowledge of… Continue reading
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A rant against militant trade unionism By Alan Thornett
Former Oxford TGWU full time trade union official David Buckle’s book ‘Turbulent Times in the Car Industry – Memories of a Trade Union Official at Cowley Oxford’ was published, in April this year, as a response to my book ‘Militant Years – car workers struggles in Britain in the 60s and 70s’ published in January,*… Continue reading
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Spanish state: indignation in revolt
Finally the spirit of revolt has come back to the Spanish state, after to years of weak resistance against the crisis and the decision of the two main unions, CCOO and UGT, to sign a social deal last January which stopped the dynamics of mobilisation they had begun with the general strike of 29 September… Continue reading
The New Dark Age 