The killing of a soldier in Woolwich on May 22nd was horrific. The indiscriminate murders of thousands of unnamed civilians in Pakistan, Yemen and Afghanistan by armed drones have been replicating this horror on a much larger scale for years. [...]
Bob Dylan remarks somewhere that “you don’t need a weatherman to know which way the wind blows”. He forgot to add: you might need one to tell you about the tragedy of extreme weather events. Not, perhaps, those committed by [...]
Terry Conway explains how the ideas of American socialist Sharon Smith have developed in relation to feminism. Sharon Smith’s article “Domestic Labour and Women’s oppression” in International Socialist Review 88 is a breath of fresh air, particularly when compared with [...]
Alan Thornett This text below was written by myself and John Lister in July 2011 as a chapter on Britain in the book New Parties of the Left, published by Resistance Books book a month later. It pulls together [...]
Terry Conway assesses the first national meeting of Left Unity, held in London on May 11: Over a hundred people from fifty five local groups, as well as members of the day-to-day organising group, met for the first national meeting [...]
China’s Rise: Strength and Fragility by Au Loong Yu (with contributions from Bai Ruixue, Bruno Jetin & Pierre Rousset) Published Resistance Books, Merlin Press and International Institute for Research and Education ISBN 978-0-85036-637-2 Reviewed by Garth Frankland No one who [...]
Phil Hearse wrote this piece for his site Crisis and Revolt. The worst possible response to the local council elections in which UKIP won 25% of the vote would be complacency. For this result is shameful for both Labour and for [...]
Ian Parker reviews Andrew McGettigan’s book The Great University Gamble: Money, Markets and the Future of Higher Education (ISBN: 978-0-7453-3293-2), published by Pluto Press at £16.99 on 30 April The minority Conservative government propped up by Orange Book liberals keen [...]
By Susan Pashkoff: In the first three months of 2013, 694 provisions restricting a women’s right to choose have been introduced in different US states. The fact that amendments to the constitutions of various states give the foetus “personhood” is [...]
This position was agreed at Socialist Resistance’s conference last weekend. An important situation has opened up on the left, both in terms of the possibility of a new broad party and the possibility of far left regroupment. The first is [...]
Giorgos Karistinos reports on the shocking realities he witnessed: I feel obliged to speak about the things I witnessed with my own eyes at the Police Station of Drapetsona, a close-to- the city- port neighborhood in Piraeus. I really have no idea [...]
Current grassroots mobilizations in Spain, known as 15M or Indignados movement involves and benefits a great deal from feminisms. It is refreshing to see various feminist currents flowing through the Iberian streets in a symbiotic relationship with other struggles as [...]
Liz Peretz recounts a local case study: Women, as we know, are bearing the brunt of the cuts – as workers, carers (daughters, mothers, wives). For most of us the attack is coming at us from all sides. As the [...]
Should we invite someone from the M5S (Five Star Movement) to speak about how they built their movement in Italy? This was an interesting and relevant question raised towards the end of our recent local Left Unity meeting writes Dave [...]
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