Tag Archives: permanent revolution (group)

Ditch sects and fronts

Last Saturday's launch of the Anti-Capitalist Initiative provided further evidence of an increasingly fractured, rightward-drifting left. Ben Lewis reports As I reported in last week’s Weekly Worker, bound up with the recent decamping of 15 younger comrades from Workers Power (British Section of the League for a Fifth International) is another far-left unity drive under the ...

London Metropolitan University strike

The sign on the door of the Women’s Library said it all. The private view of the exhibition “Striking Women” had been cancelled – due to strike action! Stuart King reports on the ongoing struggle at the London Met against cuts and redundancies. The pickets were out again on Thursday and Friday last week in the ...

Left doesn’t unite shock

Well-mannered and inoffensive - the Convention of the Left illustrated the problem the left faces, writes Chris Strafford “It’s official - the left unites!” That is the bold claim made by the Convention of the Left in its September 22 bulletin. Those present agreed to the statement of intent that was developed by the CL ...