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CWU President Jane Loftus resigns from SWP

mkcommunists wrote 2 hours ago: Following her vote, on the Communication Workers Union’s postal executive committee, for the a … more →

Tags: PCS union, Trade Unions, Weekly Worker, Communication Workers Union, CWU, Interim Agreement, Jane Loftus, Martin & John, Pc's

The Birmingham pub bombings, 35 years on3 comments

charliethechulo wrote 15 hours ago: Birmingham UK, November 21 1974: Thirty five years ago tonight,  two bombs exploded inside busy pubs … more →

Tags: Good People, History, Ireland, Jim D, Terror

SWP crisis goes public on Tyneside4 comments

charliethechulo wrote 1 day ago: It’s fairly well-known on the left that the British SWP is presently in a state of turmoil. Fo … more →

Tags: champagne charlie, Political Groups, Sectarianism, strange situations

For anybody in the Manchester area.11 comments

Richard Gold wrote 2 days ago: Opponents of the boycott may like to know that Bricup will be holding the following meeting in Manch … more →

Tags: academic boycott, Academics, analogy - apartheid/Israel, anti-zionism, Boycott, Divestment & Sanctions, boycott opposition, The Left, trade union, UCU

One more for Chris Harman

antigerman wrote 2 days ago: To add to the obits mentioned here, one from Splintered Sunrise. Added: In the new Socialist Review: … more →

Tags: Obituaries, Trotskyists, Chris Harman

SWP: Bring Loftus to account

oxfordcommunists wrote 2 days ago: Dave Isaacson condemns leading SWP members who continually undermine and sabotage attempts to forge … more →

Tags: The Left, Trade Unions, Communication Workers Union, CWU, CWU sell-out, CWU sellout, Jane Loftus, postal executive committee, socialist worker

Trotsky: Two Recent Books.

Andrew Coates wrote 5 days ago: Review: Stalin’s Nemesis. The Exile, and Murder of Leon Trotsky. Bertrand M. Patenaude. Faber … more →

Tags: Marxism, Stalinism, Trotskyism, Trotsky

Purge Looming in Respect? 3 comments

Andrew Coates wrote 6 days ago: “Respect’s leadership is absolutely determined that the influence of the ultra-left will remai … more →

Tags: Marxism, Sectarianism, respect

Respect (Renewal): from SWP to Green Party. 5 comments

Andrew Coates wrote 1 week ago: Was Red, is now Green? The scales should be falling from some people’s eyes this morning. The … more →

Tags: European Left, Greens, Left, Green Party, respect

Gameboy: you're on!25 comments

charliethechulo wrote 1 week ago: Sometimes, all you can do is make yourself plain: “John, I’m willing to debate you here, anywh … more →

Tags: Jim D, free speech, AWL, Politics, Marxism

Trot notes1 comment

antigerman wrote 1 week ago: European Trotskyists respond to the anniversary of World War II: An interesting feature on the World … more →

Tags: Obituaries, Trotskyists, Chris Harman, International Socialists, is, Socialist Workers' Party

extracts from ellis hillman's 'the nature of the stalinist parties'

internationalcommunist wrote 1 week ago: note by David Black: The Nature of the Stalinist Parties – a document of several thousand words … more →

Tags: Stalinism, state capitalism, The Left, The commune, ellis hillman

From the archive of struggle no.38: YIVO special feature1 comment

antigerman wrote 1 week ago: Today’s feature archive is YIVO. Founded in 1925 in Vilna as the Yiddish Scientific Institute, … more →

Tags: From the archive of struggle, Bertram Wolfe, Bund, Bundism, Bundist, Chris Harman, communist left, Communist Party Opposition, David Edelshtat

Chris Harman is Dead: Expanded Political Obituary. 11 comments

Andrew Coates wrote 2 weeks ago: Contested Till Death. Chris Harman, a leading figure for decades in the SWP (more here), died last n … more →

Tags: Left, Marxism, Chris Harman

"Dear Comrade Harman"86 comments

charliethechulo wrote 2 weeks ago: The sudden passing of Chris Harman (in Cairo – presumably continuing the SWP’s sucking u … more →

Tags: AWL, Jim D, Left, middle east, Political Groups, Trotskyism, Truth

Leon Trotsky drinking Mexican coffee

antigerman wrote 2 weeks ago: Robert Service on Trotsky again: Service was on the weekend’s The Forum on the BBC World Servi … more →

Tags: Bertolt Brecht, Bill Fishman, Bongani Mkhungo, Bund, Communist Party, French Resistance, Irving Howe, John Molyneux, John Saville

Iran protests and the betrayal of (some of) the left13 comments

charliethechulo wrote 2 weeks ago: Today in Tehran, courageous students and other protestors defied a warning by the clerical fascist g … more →

Tags: Anti-Fascism, Blogosphere, Iran, Islamism, Jim D, middle east, Thuggery

Timely questioning of no-platform fetish

oxfordcommunists wrote 2 weeks ago: James Turley sees SWP politics reduced to ultra-shrill self-parody It has been a busy week for the S … more →

Tags: The Left, Socialist Workers' Party, Nick Griffin, BNP, BRitish National Party, Question Time, no-platform, John Moyneux, Martin Smith

113. Saturday November 3rd, 1984.

normanstrike wrote 2 weeks ago: Even the bloody weather was against us today, with pouring rain spoiling the firework display we had … more →

Tags: Bob Delbridge, houses of parliament, Mrs gandhi, newcastle poly, Thatcher and MacGregor, Victory to the Miners


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