Marxism
Every show of weakness encourages the government
The ConDem coalition has taken less than three months to show its true colours as an ultra-Thatcherite, neoliberal government in which Nick Clegg’s wretched LibDems play the servile role of Igor to the Tory Frankenstein.
6Sep2010 | John Lister | 0 comments | Continued
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 […]
New book: “Building Unity Against Fascism: Classic Marxist Writings”
In 2007, French fascist Le Pen won almost four million votes. In 2009 the British National Party won almost a million votes while Germany’s fascist NPD won over 750,000. In 2010, fascist-led organisations like the Engish Defence League and Italy’s Future and Freedom party emerged.
To help activists understand this twenty-first century wave of fascism, Socialist […]
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 […]
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 […]
Ireland becomes a NAMA Republic
Joe Carter writes
All across Ireland the evidence of an enormous property crash hits one in the face with empty houses and office developments all over the country. Many of these, it is now admitted, will be bulldozed. There are apparently 620 “ghost” estates in which 5,000 families live amid 15,000 empty or unfinished homes. From […]
Leaflet now available for ‘Latin America and the ecosocialist alternative’ in Spanish and English
You can download the new leaflet for the seminar being organised by Green Left and Socialist Resistance with Hugo Blanco: click here for English and click here for Spanish.
Hugo Blanco is a historic leader of the Peruvian peasant movement, who has been active for more than fifty years. In the 1960s he played a central […]
“Anti-Islamic Racism and Communalism”: Indian socialists oppose veil ban
In country after country in Europe, political forces ranging from liberals (Belgium) to the openly right wing (Sarkozy in France, the Northern League in Italy) have been initiating actions to ban Muslim women from wearing the veil, or seeking punishment for those wearing it. The Netherlands and Italy already have regional or local restrictions, as […]
29Jul2010 | Admin. | 1 comment | Continued
Socialist Resistance statement against the banning of the veil
Throughout Europe there is a growing movement that seeks to ban Muslim women who chose to do so from wearing the veil. In Britain today this demand comes mainly from the BNP, UKIP and some individuals on the Tory right. Things though may change for the worse, already the Tory tabloids are stirring on this […]
26Jul2010 | Administrator | 3 comments | Continued
Eviscerating the NHS
New proposals set out in the new coalition government White Paper “Liberating the NHS” could reduce the National Health Service in England from one of Europe’s largest single employers, with around 1 million staff, to near zero staff by the time of the next general election, in the most ambitious privatisation proposals yet.The NHS itself […]
15Jul2010 | John Lister | 0 comments | Continued
The resistible rise of Fascism: the lessons for today
[Jane Kelly’s introduction Trotsky on fascism first appeared in Socialist Outlook’s book on the far right, Ending the Nightmare. Is is suggested reading for participants at the Socialist Resistance dayschool on fascism being held in central London on July 10. For an invitation, please contact your local Socialist Resistance branch.]
Trotsky’s writings on fascism start with […]
Con Dems will create new slump
The butchers’ coalition’s emergency budget cuts and spending plans will push Britain into a decade long economic slump argues Raphie de Santos
The list of projects, services and support for the community that will be lost just from the announced spending cuts and suspended future programmes reach down into the very fabric of our society. The […]
22Jun2010 | Resistance | 9 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 
