Macron wins: class collaboration is no way to stop his new offensive [1]
Dave Stockton, Workers power 393 Tue, 26/04/2022 - 16:58The second round of France’s presidential election on 24 April saw Emmanuel Macron, an arrogant neoliberal ‘reformer’, returned to the Elysée for a second term. Read more... [1]
The CWI split: a Trotskyist analysis [2]
Martin Suchanek Wed, 01/04/2020 - 00:00In this article, Martin Suchanek argues that the real reason for the split in the CWI is to be found in the political and methodological errors built into the foundations of the organisation’s tra Read more... [2]
France: Confusion on the left, reformist and revolutionary [3]
Marc Lasalle Thu, 23/04/2015 - 09:57“The director reminds all employees of the obligation of laicité (secularism) and neutrality. Read more... [3]
Spain: PSOE scrapes home in Andalusia - has it stopped the rise of Podemos? [4]
Christian Gebhardt Sat, 04/04/2015 - 07:36Spain: PSOE scrapes home in Andalusia - has it stopped the rise of Podemos? Read more... [4]
François Hollande attacks the working class - French left in disarray [5]
Marc Lasalle Wed, 08/10/2014 - 13:58The French President, François Hollande, is trying to become the Tony Blair or Gerhardt Schröder of a country that has always tended to reject attempts to impose the neoliberal “reform” policies for Read more... [5]
France: NPA congress fails to address, let alone solve, the party’s crisis [6]
Marc Lasalle Wed, 13/02/2013 - 10:29From 1-3 February, 231 delegates assembled in Saint-Denis, Paris, for the second congress of the New Anticapitalist Party (Nouveau Parti anticapitaliste, NPA). Read more... [6]
Ireland: United Left Alliance Breaking Up [7]
Bernie McAdam Tue, 12/02/2013 - 17:58Ireland: United Left Alliance Breaking Up Read more... [7]
Alliance for Workers Liberty: apologists for imperialism [8]
Thu, 15/05/2008 - 22:00The leaders of the Alliance for Workers Liberty (AWL) argue that socialists should not fight for the withdrawal of US and British troops from Iraq and Afghanistan. They claim that, were the occupation to end immediately, reactionary Islamic forces would annihilate the Iraqi labour movement. Some comrades in the organisation are challenging this shameful position. To assuage their fears, Martin Thomas published a "questions and answer" in the run up to their conference. Simon Hardy and Luke Cooper unpick his arguments and find - unsurprisingly - that Thomas is an apologist for imperialism Read more... [8]
Respect splits: Socialist Workers Party in crisis [9]
Wed, 31/10/2007 - 23:00Members of Respect have received emails from both sides in the dispute that is tearing their coalition-cum-party apart, with each blaming the other for “splitting Respect”. On one side stand George Galloway MP and the majority of the delegates on Respect’s national council. They claim that the Socialist Workers Party - Respect’s largest single component - is splitting Respect by encouraging four councillors in Tower Hamlets, East London to resign the whip and, allegedly, to stand against official Respect candidates. Read more... [9]
Respect’s crisis is opportunity for new workers party [10]
Mon, 01/10/2007 - 17:00In early September Respect MP George Galloway circulated a letter to the Respect National Council entitled “It was the best of times, it was the worst of times”. The letter appears to point to a possible early disintegration of the “Unity Coalition.” Galloway makes a series of bitter complaints about how Respect is run, ranging from complaints over office procedures to accusations of ineptitude in election work and a general lack of accountability and democracy. He ends by warning that Respect may be facing oblivion. Although he does not mention by name the organisation he holds responsible for all this, it is quite obviously the Socialist Workers Party. Read more... [10]