Posts Tagged ‘Socialist Alliance’
Open Letter to Left Unity
An Organisation that is Afraid to Campaign Left Unity was formed last year with the many of the members coming from the fall-out in the SWP over Martin Thomas and the question of rape/sexual harrassment. Others are relatively new to politics and of course there are those who are members of existing left groups –…
Read MoreLeft Unity Conference
A banner headline which didn’t match the strap lines Another Missed Opportunity as feminists and reformists link-up Left Unity is the brainchild and founding father, the distinguished socialist film maker Ken Loach who has produced more radical and socialist films that I can remember. Ken Loach – Left Unity’s guiding light According to its own…
Read MoreUK Far-Right Surges to 23%
As the British National Party Lose their Final Seats – UKIP – a party of ‘fruit-cakes’ and ‘closet racists’ [Cameron] rises Nigel Farage, the ‘hail fellow well met’ bloke at home with South Coast prejudices about how they should scrap benefits Historically Britain hasn’t had an equivalent of far-right European parties such as the Front…
Read MoreSWP Crisis Over Cover-up of Rape & Sexual Harassment Allegations against former National Secretary Martin Smith
trade-mark SWP badge Martin Smith, former National Secretary of SWP – at the centre of serious allegations of sexual violence Can the SWP survive its own failures of internal democracy? UPDATE Although I didn’t realise it until reading the transcript, the second woman who made a complaint of sexual harassment against Comrade ‘Delta’ has been…
Read MoreRest in Peace – Terry Liddle
Terry Liddle 1948 – 2012, Comrade I first met Terry at an AGM of the Alliance for Green Socialism. I didn’t know him very well but despite his disability he was full of vigour and anger at the system. I would like to carry the commemoration below by someone who knew him better, Pete McClaren…
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