The bailout package for the big three car manufacturers in the US is stalled -for now, writes James Turley The economic crisis continues to deepen, particularly in the country at its epicentre, the USA. On December 12, the US Senate failed to pass an emergency bail-out fund of $14 billion, billed as a “bridging loan” to ...
On Saturday December 13 some 70 members and supporters of Hands Off the People of Iran met in London for the campaign’s second annual conference. Chris Strafford reports Our activists come together to critically assess both shortcomings and achievements and to plan for the coming year in light of political and economic developments. Mark Fischer (chair) ...
The government’s setback over DNA records does not mean an end to its attacks, writes Ted North Many on the left are rubbing their hands together at what they consider to be favourable prospects arising from the developing recession. It is true that the changing face of global politics arising from the financial crisis poses profound ...
Despite an SP and SWP presence, no one proposed the necessary solution to global warming, writes Simon Wells The Campaign Against Climate Change held its annual demonstration on a bitterly cold afternoon last Saturday, coinciding with the latest United Nations negotiations being held in Poznan, Poland, to agree a post-Kyoto deal. Starting from Grosvenor Square, the demonstration ...
James Turley situates the arrest of Damian Green within a general trend towards authoritarianism "Police state Britain," fumed the Daily Mail in perhaps its most memorable front page since its 'Murderers' stunt upon the release of Stephen Lawrence's alleged killers. "MPs want protection after arrest of Tory for telling truths Labour didn't want you to know" ...
John McDonnell MP will launch a new campaign at Hopi's annual conference (details see below). This campaign will focus on the need to overturn the existing sanctions – as well as fight against any new ones. Sanctions constitute a 'soft war' on Iran. The programme of sanctions imposed so far has on the one ...
On Thursday the AWL held a public meeting in Sheffield to launch their 'New Workers Plan' in response to the current economic crisis. The meeting was attended by about 15 individuals, 10 of whom were AWL members/supporter, and 5 HOPI members (CS/PR and Mike Martin). Tom Unterrainer presented a 40 minute speech about the current ...
On 27 November, the much beleaguered Manchester SWP held a meeting titled ‘The Capitalist Crisis; the case for Socialism’ which managed to attract around 40 to 50 people, around a third of whom were their own comrades. A small turnout considering the amount of posters that went up across Manchester. They would have had more ...
Ninety years ago, the destiny of the world revolution lay in the hands of the German working class. Ben Lewis describes the tumultuous events and draws some lessons for today “Without the revolution in Germany, we are doomed.”1 Vladimir Ilych Lenin’s words of January 1918 underline how the world revolution, initiated and set into motion by ...
James Turley asks why the working class should have any confidence in the protection of the bourgeois state It is perhaps the biggest cock-up in the British National Party’s recent history. Britain’s largest far-right group has been damaged by a number of shock documentaries that suggest the party’s core remains more enthusiastic about Hitler than its PR ...
Ted North watches a new US administration takes shape The widespread rejoicing at the election of Barrack Obama, including by some on the left, can now be put into context as his incoming administration takes shape. Soon to be key figures are emerging from the competing mass of careerists, lobbyists, and various other undesirable kinds of ...
Video from a Hands Off the People of Iran public meeting at Kings College London. Nick Rogers (CPGB) and Torab Saleth (Workers Left Unity Iran) discuss the implications of Barack Obama's election for Iran and the Middle East.
Some 250 people packed into Conway Hall for the November 15 annual conference of the Labour Representation Committee. Ben Lewis looks at the key questions facing the Labour left Despite, for the most part, not getting much younger, those attending the LRC conference were certainly optimistic about the coming period. Talk was very upbeat about the ...