Alan Thornett reports from the sixteenth world congress of the Fourth International (FI) which was held near Ostend, Belgium, in late February. There were over 200 delegates, observers and invited guests from around 40 countries. The International brings together revolutionary socialists [...]
The Socialist Resistance national committee on January 9 adopted this document by Alan Thornett to respond to Salma Yaqoob’s ideas about Respect’s strategy for the upcoming General Election. The statement issued by Salma Yaqoob at the end of November, on [...]
The Respect conference could have been a very positive event. It was attended by over 200 members and was located in Salma Yaqoob’s constituency of Sparkbrook and Small Heath in Birmingham where she won 27% of the vote in the [...]
The Respect conference could have been a very positive event. It was attended by over 200 members and was located in Salma Yaqoob’s constituency of Sparkbrook and Small Heath in Birmingham where she won 27% of the vote in the [...]
Despite the crisis of the thirty-year neo-liberal project, the three main parties are promising more of the same. All they have on offer is war, environmental destruction, unemployment, public service cuts, wage cuts, privatisation, racism, repression and surveillance and a [...]
Respect could use its upcoming conference to get ready for next year’s elections. The first priority of the Respect conference — which is to be held on November 14th in Birmingham — must be the launch of its election campaign. [...]
This piece by Alan Thornett was published earlier this year as a contribution to our discussion on regroupment. The document was uncontroversial among those who have had a chance to discuss it and goes some way to establishing a framework [...]
Jack Jones (March 1913 – April 2009) the former General Secretary of the Transport and General Workers Union (TGWU) died in April at the age of 96. He was general secretary for nine years from 1968 until 1978, writes Alan Thornett. During [...]
The brutal way in which thousands of Tamil people, who had been demonstrating in Westminster for the last few days were dispersed last night by the police, should be condemned by all those who value human rights. Most of the [...]
The banking crisis broke out again in full force in Britain in mid-January forcing Brown into a new round of bailouts in the financial sector. By February 2009 a trillion dollars have been handed over to the bankers worldwide and [...]
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