Posts Tagged ‘socialism’
Dreaming of 1945
Published in Weekly Worker, 24th November 2011 The Labour Representation Committee, rather than being a single tendency body, serves as an umbrella for a variety of groupings and individuals, primarily those in the Labour Party who consider themselves to be on the left. As such, it hosts an array of left Labourites, Marxists, Stalinites and […]
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Tags: alliance for workers liberty, communism, labour party marxists, labour representation committee, new communist party, socialism, the labour party
Published in Red Mist, 19th June 2011 “Because sex workers shouldn’t be dead to be on film”, argued the promo blurb for London’s first Sex Worker Film Festival. And who aside from Henry of Portrait of a Serial Killer could disagree? Organised by the Sex Worker Open University, a “grassroots collective” of sex workers, academics and activists, […]
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Tags: feminism, hackney, international union of sex workers, prostitution, puritanism, sex worker film festival, sex workers, socialism, strippers
Tahrir Square comes to Madrid
published in Weekly Worker, 2nd June 2011 “Rallies are boring,” said one activist characteristically at the ‘open organising assembly for June 30 strikes’ in central London. The May 23 meeting may have been attended by more than 100 activists from various tendencies, but it was certainly decentralised direct action groups such as UK Uncut that […]
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Tags: democracia real ya, democracy movement, direct action, real democracy, real democracy now, socialism, Spanish Revolution, spanishrevolution, uk uncut
A revolution of the flowers?
A report from Coalition of Resisitance meeting, ‘Tunisia – Solidarity with the Revolution’ on 21 Jan 2011 in central London As a 50 strong audience of Coalition of Resistance supporters and guests gathered in the building of the University of London Union, the central committee of Tunisia’s ruling party, the RCD, was no more. Under […]
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Tags: arab revolution, coalition of resistance, counterfire, egypt, islam channel, john rees, mohamed ali harrath, socialism, tunisia
More glasnost, less perestroika
Published in Weekly Worker and Havana Times, 13 Jan 2011 An interview with Circles Robinson, editor of Havana Times Ever imagined a post-revolutionary scenario where Socialist Worker becomes the only widely available source of information? Well – that vision is very much a reality in Cuba, where Granma, the organ of the Communist Party since […]
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Tags: anti-capitalism, anti-imperialism, che guevara, communism, cuba, fidel castro, havana, raul castro, socialism
Official optimism gone mad
published in Weekly Worker, 25th November 2011 “I think today’s turnout is amazing,” announced Lindsey German to the assembled anti-war protesters in her trademark style. It was a case of official optimism gone mad: not only was the turnout at the November 20 Stop the War Coalition demo the poorest in years, but Lindsey’s blatant […]
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Tags: communism, communist party of great britain, counterfire, cuba, john rees, socialism, socialist workers party, stop the war, swp
Poll tax reminiscences
Published in Weekly Worker, 11th November 2011 At SPEW’s ‘Socialism 2009′ school, Robin Clapp told us how we beat the Tories last time around “Thatcher thought that Neil Kinnock and his followers in the Labour Party were a piece of piss,” reminisced a veteran of the […]
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Tags: anti-cuts, labour party, militant tendency, socialism, socialism 2010, socialist party, socialist party of england and wales, SPEW, the left
Uncritical Stalinists?
This poster was plastered on the walls of Manchester University by a group called Communist Students last week, inviting to a “debate and discussion on Stalinism, what it is, and why we oppose it”. What does it say in huge letters? “Stalinism is anti-communism”. A clear enough statement, right?
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Following an incident at the SWP’s Marxism 2010 festival (reported here) Claire Fisher and myself sent a readers’ letter to the SWP paper, Socialist Worker. We had the faint hope that honesty and solidarity would prevail over apparatchik attitudes and our letter would get printed. Initially, one Socialist Worker journalist expressed (feigned?) interest in our […]
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Tags: communism, communist party of great britain, cpgb, marxism, socialism, socialist workers party, stalinism, swp, the left
Report from the 1234 Festival, Sat 24th July 2010 in Shoreditch Park, also published in Weekly Worker. From Greenpeace to Amnesty International, from the Metropolitan Police to Lucky Strike and the Socialist Workers Party, everybody was testing their credentials with those trendy young things at the July 24 1234 music festival in Shoreditch Park. “You […]
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A report from the SWP’s ‘Marxism 2010′ Festival by Claire and Zuri – published in Weekly Worker. Claire: I’m writing as a member of the SWP. Attending Marxism has always been enjoyable for me – the opportunity to listen to debates within a left forum can be inspiring and help foster the belief that we […]
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Tags: communist party of great britain, macho insecurity, marxism, marxism 2010, socialism, socialist workers party, stalinism, swp, unite against fascism
Michael Jackson news from Iraq!
http://www.newser.com/story/64330/sadistic-brit-soldiers-made-iraqis-dance-like-jacko.html Looks like our boys had a jolly good time down in Iraq: they made people dance like Jacko, they tortured detainees, they beat civilians to death – nice! And this is just the tip of an iceberg.
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Tags: capitalism, imperialism, iran, iraq, london music, michael jackson, Punk, socialism
