E&L is reposting this statement from Hands off People of Iran on response to the US killing of Qassem Soleimani FIGHT ON TWO FRONTS Trump’s reckless drone assassination was a godsend for the reactionary theocratic regime in Tehran Hands Off the People of Iran unequivocally condemns the United States assassination on January…
LEAKED US TRADE TALKS SHOW HOW TRUMP IS DICTATING JOHNSON’S APPROACH TO A HARD BREXIT
Given their shared record of constant lying, the carefully prepared declaration from both Trump and Johnson that the thought of further privatising the NHS never entered their minds, will be taken by most people as an indication that the NHS is very much up for sale. The article below from Open Democracy looks a little deeper…
THE PROBLEMS FACING THE PALESTINIAN LIBERATION MOVEMEMT
Lorna Anderson has been on a recent visit to Palestine. In the first part of this article she reports on the growing realisation amongst the Palestinian liberation movement that they can not effectively deal with the Israeli occupation without taking on the Palestinian Authority. In the second part she assesses the possibilities of the Palestinian…
FROM BLATCHERISM TO MAYBYNISM
Below is a synopsis of Allan Armstrong’s new pamphlet The Continuing Shift to the Right in the Transition from Neo-Liberalism to Right Populism https://allanarmstrong831930095.files.wordpress.com/2021/12/right-populism-1.pdf This is followed by the last two chapters (relettered) which deal with the impact of Right Populism since the Brexit vote, _______ THE CONTINUING SHIFT TO THE RIGHT IN THE…
REMEMBERING THE WOBBLIES
Eric Thomas Chester, is author of The Wobblies in Their Heyday (a history of the Industrial Workers of the World during its most vibrant period, the World War I era ) and Yours for Industrial Freedom (an anthology that provides insight into the IWW as it really was based on letters introduced by the prosecution during the 1918…
THE IHRA AND APARTHEID ISRAEL
We are posting three pieces following the Labour Party’s adoption of the IHRA statement on Anti-Semitism. the first is by Moshe Machover, founder member of the socialist Matzpen Party in Israel, who successfully resisted a joint Zionist and Labour Right attempt to have him expelled from the Labour Party. The second is by a Shahd…
OPEN LETTER AND PETITION TO LEN McCLUSKEY
We have revived this open letter and petition from Ian Allinson of UNITE Grassroots Left. It calls upon UNITE members to reject Len McCluskey’s call for the Labour Party to adopt the IHRA definition anti-semitism. OPEN LETTER AND PETITION TO LEN McCLUSKEY We the undersigned call on you to oppose the adoption by the…
EUROPE AND THE TRUMP DOCTRINE
In this article Paul Demarty argued that Donald Trump is following a logical policy which meets the requirements of a declining US capitalism, and its growing economic weakness, highlighted in the aftermath of the 2008 Crisis. EUROPE AND THE TRUMP DOCTRINE If Donald Trump is such a disastrous president, why is America not suffering? …
LESSONS OF THE RED (REPUBLICAN) STATES TEACHER STRIKES
Eric Chester has sent in this article form Jack Gerson, a teacher activist on California, about the teacher strikes in West Virginia, Kentucky and Arizona. LESSONS OF THE RED (REPUBLICAN) STATES TEACHER STRIKE Last Saturday (June 9), I attended the “Lessons of the Red States Teacher Strikes” forum featuring teacher leaders of the…
WHAT NOW FOR THE INDEPENDENCE MOVEMENT?
. Murdo Ritchie raises questions for the Scottish Independence Movement. WHAT NOW FOR THE INDEPENDENCE MOVEMENT? The issue should never be in what direction the Scottish national independence movement should go but what is the best way a new Scotland can be created. It is from this approach that the future political movements…