National

The SWP – one of the most successful organising forces on the British left over the last few decades – is close to death, says Salman Shaheen, its good work sacrificed on the altar of the cult a flawed model of democratic centralism created. I will spend no time mourning for there is no time […] Read more »

The leader of the left party in Greece, Syriza, has been in London this week speaking to academics, political supporters and leading British politicians and trades unionists. Here Michael Burke reports on the economics seminar he attended that Tsipras spoke at last Thurdsay There are 700,000 households in Greece that currently have no incomes at […] Read more »

CND General Secretary Kate Hudson on the victory over EDF Fantastic news today that EDF has dropped its £5 million damages claim against climate change campaigners No Dash for Gas who shut down EDF’s newly-constructed West Burton gas-fired power station for a week. This victory has been achieved thanks to a massive backlash from hundreds […] Read more »

Mark Perryman argues that after the SWP car crash we need to review why the Outside Left’s turning points have invariably turned instead into the closing down of windows of opportunity Evan Smith raises the question on his blog whether the SWP fallout will prove to be a turning point for the British Far Left. […] Read more »

  This is an update from our article published yesterday. EDF have dropped their lawsuit against No Dash for Gas. Below we publish the campaign’s statement as an addition to the original article and interview with Ewa Jasiewicz Statement from No Dash for Gas WE WON! EDF just withdrew their £5m lawsuit against No Dash […] Read more »

Camilla Power, a member of the Radical Anthropology Group, looks at the work of Marx and Engels on the women’s question and casts a critical eye on the Marxist left’s response to feminism. Camilla begins her article citing the case of  a trade unionist who has accused a leading member of the RMT union of […] Read more »

Merry Cross, a supporter of the Left Unity initiative and a  member of Disabled People Against the Cuts [DPAC], explains the importance of disability struggles to building the new movement we all want The attacks on benefit claimants began quietly during the last Labour administration, in 2008, with the introduction of the Work Capability Assessment […] Read more »

Keith Flett looks the history of taxes and puts the new ‘bedroom tax’ into historical context. The Coalition’s bedroom tax that will leave those in social housing facing a significant reduction in benefit income if they have the temerity, for whatever reason, to have an empty bedroom is one of the most vicious examples of […] Read more »

International Women’s Day – 8th March – was originally a socialist holiday established in 1911 by the Socialist International and is celebrated by women’s groups around the world. In many countries, it is a national holiday and has recently been officially recognized by the United Nations, say Margaret Rapp and Susan Pashkoff. However, up until […] Read more »

Nick Wrack is been a leading member of the Trade Unionist and Socialist Coalition [TUSC], previously he was a leading member of Respect. Here he examines the case for a new party of the left in the wake of the disastrous result for TUSC in the Eastleigh by-election. Nick’s call for a broad democratic party […] Read more »