Last year’s dramatic elections in Greece were marked by a significant political polarisation writes Piers Mostyn. New left party Syriza came second with nearly 27 % and the fascist Chrysi Avgi (Golden Dawn) came fifth with nearly 7%. The far [...]
Özlem Onaran* gave this interview to Anastasia Giamali of Avgi (The Dawn), Syriza’s daily paper. -Erdogan has been promoting a fully neoliberal agenda with privatisations, “development”, etc. Has this reached a ceiling? Is this the reason why people are protesting? [...]
The new issue of Socialist Resistance is now available. It’s cover “Feminism: Now more than ever!” gives pretty good idea of what to expect inside it. You can take out a subscription here.
The spontaneous movement that started in Istanbul is unprecedented in Turkey’s history. It’s now spread to sixty-seven of the eighty-five major cities writes Masis Kürkçügil of New Course for Socialist Democracy, the Fourth International section in Turkey. It all started when [...]
Mass demonstrations and harsh governmental crackdowns are not new in Turkish political history writes Yunus Sözen , Antikapitalist Eylem (Anticapitalist Action). However, although the current demonstrations in Istanbul and throughout Turkey were initiated by socialists, there is no doubt that we [...]
Meetings around Britain in advance of the People’s Assembly Against Austerity have been huge. Nottingham People’s Assembly had over 400 people attending; a 200 strong rally for the Assembly in Newcastle, 400 packing out Sheffield Hallam Uni, a monster 700-strong [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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