What’s it like to be a teacher in an American school in the aftermath of a mass killing? Abra Quinn works in a school in Oakland California and offers a teacher’s perspective. Immediately after Sandy Hook – the Connecticut elementary [...]
An activist who wants to be known as TP has sent us another article on the new management culture now prevailing in higher education. The recent events unfolding at Manchester Metropolitan University – victimisation of trade union activists, autonomous and [...]
Fred Leplat argues that socialists cannot be neutral or ambivalent about Bashar al-Assad’s bloody dictatorship. A recent Guardian article “Russian military presence in Syria” (23 December 2012) undermines Seamus Milne’s analysis in his “Intervention in Syria” (Comment – 19 December [...]
It is a brave political gesture for a British political party to organise a public meeting in the ‘twilight zone’ that takes place between the Christmas and New Year public holidays writes Harry Blackwell. Yet that is what Respect did [...]
The bulletins for the SWP’s conference, to be held on 4 -6 of January 2013, have just appeared on-line. Although there are no big surprises there are a number of things worthy of comment, even at this late stage writes [...]
Based primarily in South West Birmingham, Communities Against the Cuts has stabilised itself as a small but very dynamic left of Labour/anti-austerity party and has begun to draw around it a layer of experienced activists and younger people writes Bob Whitehead. At [...]
One month ago, we, representatives of the Russian radical left, turned to you with a call for solidarity. We asked you, our comrades and fellow thinkers, all who treasure freedom and the just right of the people to protest, to [...]
Liz Peretz reports on an inspiring day: Around 60 women attended a day conference in Oxford in November. There were contributions from Occupy ( a young woman who took part in the Brookes University event ), a community activist, and [...]
We have been sent this report by an activist who wishes to be known only as TP. The reasons for this are apparent from what follows. A significant victory has been won by a campaign against management victimisation of trade [...]
The December / January issue of Socialist Resistance is out next week. It has a strong feminist content with articles on abortion in Ireland and Britain; the women’s movement in Turkey and the role of women in unions. We also [...]
This is an edited version of the speech given by Kate Hudson at a recent meeting on New Left Parties organised by Socialist Resistance. You can watch the video here. What we are addressing here today is a crucial subject [...]
Terry Conway interviewed Au Loong Yu, the author of the forthcoming book China’s Rise Strength and Fragility (Resistance Books, IIRE, Merlin Press) TC: Can you explain why you have developed the term bureaucratic capitalism to describe China today and what [...]
Marriage is making a comeback writes Kathy Lowe. Although more people are bringing up children on their own, living alone or co-habiting than ever before, a huge ideological offensive is under way to persuade the younger generation to marry, conform [...]
Eric Hobsbawm, the world’s best known Marxist historian has died at the age of 96. He notoriously stayed loyal to the Communist Party after the 1956 Hungarian revolution, that saw many of his comrades in the party’s historians group leave. [...]
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