Articles and Editorial

By Simon Hardy, Lambeth Left Unity Capitalism is a social-economic system which concentrates power and wealth in the hands of a minority who own economy. They own the banks, supermarkets, the factories, the transport networks and key utilities.  They run these enterprises for profit and they sell their services and goods on the market. The […] Read more »

This Autumn will see a major conference in London take place on the issue of Ireland, reports Jayne Fisher. The conference on 19 October is hosted by Sinn Fein in order to provoke some serious discussion around the issue, ‘Towards a New Ireland’, looking at the future relationship between Britain and Ireland. It is something […] Read more »

The momentous decision by Parliament on August 29 not to participate in a military attack on Syria raises important points both for the trends in British politics and for economic policy, says economist Michael Burke.  SEB has repeatedly argued that there is no prospect of a Tory election victory in 2015. After the failure of Cameron’s military […] Read more »

by Gilbert Achcar The best way to “punish” the Syrian regime is to enable the popular uprising to break it, not to bomb the country. In a rare instance of the executive in a Western imperial state taking “parliamentary democracy” in earnest, the UK government consulted Parliament about military action against the Syrian regime without […] Read more »

George Venizelos looks at Syriza,   In this period of radical social and economic changes, the spark of SYRIZA, the Coalition of Radical Left, as its name stands for, gave hope to some of those who felt betrayed and pessimistic about the future of socialism. For in Greece, a radical party seemed to be threatening […] Read more »

by Marcus Halaby, Hackney Left Unity On 21 August, reports emerged that hundreds of people had been killed in a chemical weapons attack in Eastern Ghouta, a rebel-held agricultural region just outside of the Syrian capital Damascus. With reports of up to 1,700 dead, this atrocity is just the latest in a long series of […] Read more »

The Party of the European Left (EL) condemns the coming attack of USA and its western allies to Syria for several reasons. Our only guideline is the interest of the Syrian population. We condemn all the crimes committed for 2 years against the civilian populations: those of the Assad regime who took the responsibility of the […] Read more »

Sinn Féin’s spokesperson on foreign affairs, Seán Crowe TD, has spoken out against the reported plans of Britain, France and the USA to attack Syria. Crowe believes that foreign military intervention will increase the death and destruction that the Syrian people are experiencing and called on world leaders to work towards a ceasefire and peace […] Read more »

After Wiggo, London 2012, Murray in New York, The Ryder Cup and Chelsea winning the Champions League it looked like last summer could never be bettered. And then this summer began… Mark Perryman of Philosophy Football reviews a selection of books that explain sporting success, and failure. The Lions series victory in Australia, Murray’s triumph […] Read more »

Kevin Ovenden, a national officer of the Stop the War Coalition, looks at the arguments about whether protest makes a difference – and what we need to do now. It may seem wearily familiar – a rush to war, disputed intelligence dossiers and a determined effort to proceed without even UN Security Council authorisation. There […] Read more »