Harley Filben reviews Sean Birchall's 'Beating the fascists: The untold story of Anti-Fascist Action' Freedom Press, London 2010, pp413, £15 (first published in the Weekly Worker) This book appears at an interesting time, given its subject matter. The historical narrative it lays out - the rise of militant anti-fascism from the ...
'Blue Labour' is the latest fad to enrapture the leadership of the Labour Party. James Turley probes into its appeal for 'Red' Ed (first published in the Weekly Worker) Edited by Maurice Glasman, Jonathan Rutherford, Marc Stears and Stuart White, the e-book The Labour tradition and the politics of paradox (2011) is introduced by Ed ...
This is the text of a leaflet we issued at the founding conference of Youth Fight for Jobs on Saturday May 9, which was attended by about 100 comrades. A small report will follow in due course. One manifestation of the capitalist crisis is in the jobs market. According to the government's own statistic the claimant ...
Facebook (FB) is a peculiar world occupied by office workers, students and the unemployed. On it you can follow the latest intrigues of this or that friend, stalk the weirdest sectarians and at times find out somebody’s politics by where they post. The RMT, the Stalinist CPB and the “Trotskyist” Socialist Party of England and ...
After the victory of the wildcat strike at the Lindsey refinery, James Turley draws some lessons Let us begin with the story so far. On January 28, 800 workers at Lindsey oil refinery in Killingholme walked out illegally. They were protesting against the ‘dumping’ of 200 workers of Italian and Portuguese origin in order to fulfil ...
James Turley constrasts different left approaches to the 'British jobs' dispute Protests against the effects of the economic downturn are becoming more and more widespread. The Greek youth rebellion, the sweeping away of the neoconservative government in Iceland, rallies across Russia, the 24-hour general strike in France, mass demonstrations in Latvia and Lithuania and now, Britain: ...