Statements
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
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
Gaza Flotilla attack: end impunity for Israel’s crimes!
The far-right government of Benjamin Netanyahu and Avigdor Lieberman has demonstrated once more its ability to go even further than earlier Israeli governments in trampling international law and basic human decency under foot. Their murderous attack in international waters on the Gaza Freedom Flotilla is a new escalation of the Israeli aggression against the Palestinian […]
7Jun2010 | Admin. | 3 comments | Continued
SR: Resist government by the rich, for the rich
Other than a Tory majority this Conservative-Liberal coalition is the worst possible outcome of the general election, since it is the most effective platform available for cuts, austerity and unemployment. Cameron and Clegg tell us that the coalition has been formed ‘in the national interest’. That’s the code phrase for their own class.
The façade of […]
SR: No to cuts; Yes to PR
The outcome of the general election was the one long predicted, with no party winning a majority. Labour lost and the Tories failed to win. The Lib Dems lost the surge they had expected and the result was the first hung Parliament for over 30 years. The Lib Dems got 25% of the votes and […]
10May2010 | Resistance | 0 comments | Continued
34 anticapitalist groups plan European solidarity with Greek struggle
1. The global economic crisis continues. Massive amounts of money have been injected into the financial system – $14 trillion in bailouts in the United States, Britain, and the eurozone, $1.4 trillion new bank loans in China last year – in an effort to restabilize the world economy. But it remains an open question whether […]
2May2010 | Resistance | 3 comments | Continued
SR says: Countermobilise against fascism, independently of UAF where necessary
Local countermobilisation is key. Numerous mobilisations, from Codnor to Bolton, have shown that UAF’s frail national infrastructure is not a substitute for the need to build local anti-fascist activist groups. Local organisation has to be build on a real united front basis where possible, drawing in the unions, minorities communities and the broader community.
Our argument […]
Condolences for Bensaïd’s loved ones
Socialist Resistance shares the shock and pain of all those who knew and loved Daniel. He touched us in many ways: he encouraged us in launched our international campaign in support of Heloisa Helena, the Brazilian socialist who ran for the presidency; he helped us to understand the environmental consequences of capitalism and to redefine […]
13Jan2010 | Admin. | 3 comments | Continued
SR: Building left unity out of the wreckage
The Socialist Resistance national committee adopted this document by Liam Mac Uaid on January 9th to outline its balance sheet of the last decade’s attempts at the resolving the crisis of working-class representation in Britain.
The workers’ movement in Britain has faced a crisis of working class representation since the rise of New Labour in the […]
SR: Respect and the General Election
The Socialist Resistance national committee on January 9 adopted this document by Alan Thornett to respond to Salma Yaqoob’s ideas about Respect’s strategy for the upcoming General Election.
The statement issued by Salma Yaqoob at the end of November, on the approach of Respect and of the left to the upcoming general election, is very useful. […]
World AIDS Day: Link up the struggle against HIV globally
Since AIDS was first identified among gay men in the USA in 1981, the association of HIV has led to global stigmatization of sex between men, and a repathologizing of homosexuality. Lesbian/gay activists have sometimes dropped other lesbian/gay political work in face of the urgency of the epidemic or succumbed to pressures towards institutionalization or […]
1Dec2009 | Admin. | 1 comment | Continued
An assessment of the Respect conference: Alan Thornett
The Respect conference could have been a very positive event. It was attended by over 200 members and was located in Salma Yaqoob’s constituency of Sparkbrook and Small Heath in Birmingham where she won 27% of the vote in the last general election and where she stands a very good chance of winning in the […]
23Nov2009 | Alan Thornett | 1 comment | 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 
