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 campaign by Tower Hamlets Respect for a referendum on having an elected mayor in the borough has refocused attention on the issue of democracy in local government. However, elected executive mayors are generally seen on the left as anti-democratic [...]
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 [...]
A debate has emerged on voting in the general election following the Respect conference, in particular whether socialists should vote Labour where there is no left candidate. The Socialist Resistance National Committee recently had an initial discussion on this. 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 [...]
Green Left welcomes the decision of Birmingham Green Party to stand aside in the parliamentary constituency of Hall Green to let Salma Yaqoob of Respect contest the general election there. The decision, which was endorsed by 86% of Green Party [...]
At a second meeting of the left in Cambridge decisions were taken to establish an alliance of various political groups and individuals to stand in the local elections in Cambridge, and possibly the General Election in 2010, as well as [...]
“Green Left calls upon our fellow Green Party members in Birmingham not to stand a candidate in the constituency of Birmingham Hall Green in the coming general election in order to give a strong, progressive and environmentally aware candidate the [...]
Saturday’s visit by Respect MP George Galloway to Wigan is set to become the launch pad for a new ‘Left of Labour’ campaigning and electoral bloc of progressive organisations, trade unions, community groups and individuals across the North West at [...]
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