Europe Solidaire Sans Frontières
John McDonnell among former shadow cabinet members contradicting pacifist message
Senior Labour MPs on the left of the party are putting themselves at odds with former leader Jeremy Corbyn over the war in Ukraine by calling on the Ministry of Defence to do more to arm Kyiv against the (...)
Sometimes, calling for peace at all costs means siding with the oppressor.
It’s been a year since Russia launched its full-scale invasion of Ukraine. What Vladimir Putin hoped would be a three-day conquest has turned into a prolonged stalemate. As fighting rages on, so too do debates about the (...)
Writing post-mortems of Corbynism is something of a cottage industry. In 2022 alone, Oliver Eagleton, James Schneider, and Andrew Murray have all published books offering an “insider perspective” on the left-wing resurgence in and around the U.K. Labour Party under Jeremy Corbyn from 2015 to (...)
The pending anniversary of Moscow’s invasion of Ukraine is a good occasion for working people around the world to signal full support to the inspiring Ukrainian resistance in defence of their sovereignty. This is not what is offered by the Stop the War Coalition demonstration scheduled for (...)
I only made the second half of the Stop the War Coalition (STWC) trade union conference on 21 January, but I think I got a pretty good sense of the event’s politics. It was broadly what I expected.
What was said about opposing war and militarism in general, and increased militarisation and (...)
Fourteen years on from the collapse of Lehman Brothers, writes Michael Chessum, the financial crash of 2008 feels like the introduction to a much wider moment of political and economic crisis.
Society is about to face another collapse in living standards, but it has yet to recover from the (...)
Tempest member Phil Gasper discusses the work and politics of the prominent and dedicated British Marxist John Molyneux.
The Marxist writer and activist John Molyneux died in Dublin on December 11 at the age of 74. John was a longstanding member of the International Socialist Tendency, first (...)
On the 10th of December 2022, the revolutionary Marxist tradition tragically lost of one its finest proponents. 74 years old, 54 of them as a revolutionary, John Molyneux—thinker, writer and revolutionary activist—was a long-distance runner on the road to a post-capitalist world and international (...)
Even Ukrainian workers are fighting for their own rights – that’s the point of union solidarity.
Britain’s current wave of strikes, according to Nadhim Zahawi, chairman of the Tory party, is “exactly what Putin wants to see”. He accused nurses of playing into the Russian dictator’s hands by taking (...)
Morning Star writer Ian Sinclair reckons he’s uncovered “the top under-reported story of 2022 ... the news the British government worked to prevent a negotiated settlement to the Ukraine war in March-April 2022” (12-13 November).
In fact, this story has been circulating for months and the (...)
A statement from the steering commitee of anti*capitalist resistance.
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Tories Out! On the picket lines, on the streets, at the ballot box!
The collapse of Truss’s short-lived administration has only added to the crisis overwhelming Britain. The Tories have no solution to (...)
We must back the provision of humanitarian and military support for the defence and reconstruction of a sovereign nation invaded by a larger neighbour, argues GMB general secretary Gary Smith
The unpredictability of war is its only constant. As I write these lines the Russian offensive (...)
Nick Wright is a frequent contributor to the Morning Star and prominent member of the Communist Party of Britain. Back in the 1980’s, he was one of the unreconstructed Stalinists grouped around the Straight Left newspaper in opposition to the then leadership of the Communist Party. The Straight (...)
A word that has come back into use recently is ‘campism’: “referring to the notion that the world is fundamentally divided into two camps, one imperialist and the other anti-imperialist.” Originally it referred to those who took the stand of the ‘Socialist’ states against the Western Imperialism. It (...)
A delegation of Ukrainians and their British supporters gave a loud call at the annual Labour Party Conference for more arms to be provided to end the war in Ukraine. Speaking at the conference, one Labour Member of Parliament said no other country had experienced three separate genocides in a (...)
It was with great sadness that Anti*Capitalist Resistance heard of the death of our comrade Sarah Parker, at the age of 67. For two years Sarah had been suffering from breast cancer. She will be remembered as a tireless fighter for socialist feminism, anti-racism and solidarity with the (...)
People are already being forced to make difficult choices about putting food on the table or preparing now for massive energy bill increases. This leaderless Tory government has sat on its hands, out of ideas, an embarrassment. The country has had enough. We need action now! An anti*capitalist (...)
An appeal to supporters of the Stop the War Coalition
Here are notes I made for a talk at an on-line meeting of the Stop the War Coalition’s Brent (north-west London) branch tomorrow (28 June). I was due to speak alongside Lindsey German, national convenor of the STWC. But last week it turned (...)
The national conference of civil service trade union PCS (24-26 May, Brighton) voted overwhelmingly for a strong stand in solidarity with Ukraine and its labour movement, and to affiliate to the Ukraine Solidarity Campaign (USC).
It rejected a Stop the War Coalition-supporting motion (...)
From Denis Pilash, political scientist at Kyiv National University and activist in Ukrainian socialist organisation Sotsialniy Rukh (Social Movement), and Rhian Keyse, Birkbeck UCU and incoming UCU NEC member
Dear comrades,
At its Congress this week, UCU has the opportunity to take a strong (...)
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