Britain
Tories out to destroy comprehensive education
All across the country teachers, school staff and pupils are looking forward to the start of the new academic year. Alex Kenny, an executive member of the National Union of Teachers, looks the Tories’ ideologically driven plans for education and sets out how we need to fight them.
The education industry represents the largest market opportunity […]
Fascists humiliated in Brighton
A rabble of just 30-40 EDL/ENA members were effectively run out of town by hundreds of anti-fascists, assembled at short notice to demonstrate the city of Brighton and Hove want nothing to do with their message of hatred and division.
I doubt we’ll be seeing them again anytime soon.
The fascists arrived at Brighton station and many […]
justice4bolton’s urgent need to raise £35,000
On 20 March 2010, anti-racists and anti-fascists organised a demonstration in Bolton against a rally called by the so-called English Defence League (EDL). The EDL has direct links to the fascist BNP, and is violently Islamophobic (racist against Muslims).
Over 50 antifascist activists were arrested. Many fewer were charged though the national and local organisers […]
New leaflet for Manchester’s October 23 Hugo Blanco dayschool
The Climate & Capitalism II Day Conference is now set for 23 October 2010 in Manchester, and a new leaflet is available below. Among the guest speakers will be Peruvian ecosocialist activist Hugo Blanco. The Conference continues the debates and discussions between different activist campaigns in January, and will take them forward in the context […]
29Aug2010 | terry | 0 comments | Continued
Marxism and Psychology in 2010
A timely conference just took place in Canada on ‘Marxism and Psychology’. The connection between Marxism and ‘psychology’ is not often made by activists or academics, but the connection is crucial to our understanding of how individual subjectivity comes to be caught up in economic processes under capitalism. We only have […]
SR: Take down Birmingham spy cameras!
The erection of over 200 CCTV and Automatic Number Plate Recognition (ANPR) spy cameras in the Sparkbrook and Washwood Heath areas of the city, including 72 covert or hidden cameras, combines state racism, Islamophobia, the surveillance state and the “war on terror” all rolled up into one. They should be rejected completely and taken down […]
20Aug2010 | Admin. | 2 comments | Continued
Build opposition to the “slash and burn” coalition’
Alan Thornett writes:
Britain’s first coalition government since the war has completed its first Parliamentary session. Coalition, however, is something of a sick misnomer. What we have is a right-wing Thatcherite, small state, slash and burn, Tory Government, propped up by the cringing Lib Dems, with a cuts and privatisation agenda which goes well beyond anything […]
Rank and file challenge for Unite leadership
Unite the Union Britain’s largest and most influential Trade Union gears up for the election of its General Secretary. This election comes at a time when the Conservative and Liberal Democrat coalition is about to announce its plans for massive cuts to be set out in their Autumn Budget in October. All eyes will be […]
17Aug2010 | Administrator | 0 comments | Continued
Hugo Blanco in Birmingham
Tuesday, 19th October at 7.30 pm Socialist Resistance Forum: ‘Latin America: the Ecosocialist Alternative’ with Hugo Blanco. Venue: Bennett’s Bar, Bennetts Hill, Birmingham B2 5RS
12Aug2010 | terry | 0 comments | Continued
Hugo Blanco at Green Party Conference
Saturday, 11th September
Green Left/Socialist Resistance (fringe meeting event during the Green Party conference in Birmingham) ‘The Rise of the Green Left: Inside the Worldwide Ecosocialist Movement’ with Hugo Blanco and Derek Wall.
Venue: Cascade Suite, Copthorne Hotel, Paradise Place Birmingham B3 3HJ [pedestrian access from footbridge, between Paradise Forum and the War Memorial].
Join the ‘Coalition of Resistance’
As you are no doubt aware, the welfare state is under enormous threat from the current government. A new broad-based Coalition of Resistance has been formed to resist the cuts, and put forward an alternative agenda. The Coalition of Resistance has today issued a statement calling for a mass campaign against the Con-Dem cuts and […]
5Aug2010 | Admin. | 3 comments | Continued
What I Stand For: Jerry Hicks’ campaign to be UNITE general secretary
This election comes at a defining moment for working people in this country. It is the most important Trade union election for generations. We had the credit crunch, the recession and now the crisis of public debt. The Tory-Liberal, Con-Dem coalition government, wants to dump the costs of bailing out their beloved “free market” on […]
5Aug2010 | Admin. | 3 comments | Continued
ENA chant offensive slogan and ''EEDL'' while marching through peaceful independent shop area of Brighton.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aK7n-tP_4hM 
