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, by CONWAY Terry
Greg Tucker was a key and irreplaceable member of the team producing International Viewpoint. The move to producing it as an online magazine only would have been impossible without Greg who, despite his many other commitments, conceived and built the site and right up to his death continued to (…)
, by Sinistra Critica
We reproduce below the motion adopted by the national Coordination of the Critical Left - Movement for the Anti-capitalist Left, on February 17, 2008 in Turin, as as related press agency dispaches and article.
We have decided to present our lists at the elections, not to build a small (…)
, by DUVAL François
The split in Respect represents a setback for the construction of a radical left alternative.
The present article reviews the discussion which is unfolding in Britain. It will be followed, next week [in Rouge], by contributions from two protagonists in the debate, Alan Thornett (ISG) and (…)
, by YAQOOB Salma
Of all the words written about the split in Respect, the least important are those dealing with who did what at some meeting or other. Of much more interest are those articles attempting to provide some political explanation of these events.
Two recent articles from Martin Smith and Chris (…)
, by THORNETT Alan
Chris Harman claims that his article The Crisis in Respect is an attempt to locate the politics behind crisis in Respect. It is nothing of the sort. It is a continuation of the method the Socialist Workers’ Party (SWP) has employed in the debate around the issue from the outset, which has been (…)
, by Sinistra Critica
Introduction
Sinistra Critica declares that the experience in the Party of Communist Refoundation (PRC) is over, and is beginning the construction of a new political project. SC is changing into a movement and is proposing the initial phase of constructing an anti-capitalist coalition to the (…)
, by FARRIS Sara, VIDET Bertil
Saturday’s Gramsci conference in Amsterdam turned out to be a big success, both in terms of participation and discussions.
With 120 registrations, much more than expected, the organisers were forced to turn away some people who wanted to participate.
On Saturday the International Institute (…)
, by HARMAN Chris
Two meetings took place in London on 17 November 2007. One was the 360-strong annual conference of Respect, which was attended by 270 delegates from 49 local branches and 17 student groups.
The other, held in opposition to the conference and under the title “Respect Renewal”, was a rally of (…)
, by WAINWRIGHT Hilary
Despite the split, members of the Respect party are furthering socialism around the UK. What can we learn from them?
The gap to the left of Labour grows ever wider, but once again the left has failed even to lay down even a solid foundation stone towards filling it. Witness the implosion of (…)
, by MAC UAID Liam
Respect, the anti-capitalist left party in England and Wales, has split. Last weekend its two factions held separate conferences. Liam Mac Uaid, editor of Socialist Resistance, explains the roots of the division and the road forward outlined by the Respect Renewal conference.
Origins of the (…)
, by EISLER Thomas
In the national elections on 13th November the Red Green Alliance struggled to maintain parliamentary representation. With a result of 2,17 % of the vote it only passed the 2 % limit by a narrow margin.
It is the worst result for the RGA since it entered parliament in 1994. It expresses a (…)
, by THORNETT Alan
Respect as we have known it for the last four years as an alliance principally between the SWP and George Galloway is over. Following the decision of the SWP central committee last Wednesday that the Respect conference will go ahead as planned and unchanged in other words on a completely (…)
, by CALLINICOS Alex
Dear comrades,
You may have been following, with some bemusement the crisis, that has developed, suddenly and brutally, within Respect, and that has now led to George Galloway and his allies to break away and launch their own ‘Respect Renewal Conference’. This is a tragic development and we in (…)
, by LISTER John, THORNETT Alan
As events in Respect have spiralled downwards into crisis, various calls for unity have been raised which have a certain superficial attraction. Wouldn’t it be better if the two sides of the National Council (basically the SWP and fellow travellers on one side, and everyone else, including (…)
, by SWP (UK)
George Galloway has launched a series of attacks on the Socialist Workers Party in recent documents and interventions at meetings. He has been trying to win people to sign a document claiming “Respect is in danger of being completely undermined by the leadership of the Socialist Workers Party”. (…)
, by MEPSCHEN Paul
At the end of November 2007 the Dutch SP will hold its 15th national congress. The congress is of crucial importance to the building of the movement against neo-liberalism in the Netherlands, in which the SP plays a central role.
The Socialist Party is the main anti-neoliberal left force in (…)
, by LAWLESS Daphne, Socialist Worker (NZ)
Your comrades in the International Socialist Tendency in Socialist Worker - New Zealand, have watched what appears to be the unfolding disengagement of the Socialist Workers Party (Britain) from RESPECT - the Unity Coalition with gradually mounting concern, anxiety and frustration. (…)
, by THORNETT Alan
A letter from Respect MP George Galloway to the organisation’s national council has triggered a thorough-going discussion in the party. The article below, published shortly before Galloway’s letter became public, outlines Socialist Resistance’s proposals for solving the crisis in Respect.
The (…)
, by Sinistra Critica
1. The obvious political crisis of the Prodi government and the conflicts between its components mark the bankruptcy of the political project of the Union, which was victorious in the elections in 2006, but which is incapable of representing a real political and social alternative in opposition (…)
, by KELLNER Manuel
As of June 16, 2007 at 16.36h, the Linkspartei.PDS (Left Party. of Democratic Socialism) and the WASG (Electoral Alternative For Jobs and Social Justice) no longer exist. After two years of preparations, they formally merged to create the new party Die Linke (The Left). The previous day the last (…)
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