Allan Armstrong, who attended the ‘Another Europe Is Possible’ conference in London, as a representative from the Campaign for European Republican Socialist Party, makes his political assessment of the event. ANOTHER EUROPE IS POSSIBLE CONFERENCE, 10.12.18, LONDON The Left in the UK has not only been hopelessly divided over Brexit, but marginal to…
THE IRISH STATE, THE CATHOLIC CHURCH AND THE NEW ABORTION LAW
Socialist Democracy (Ireland) provides a further two articles outlining the continued resistance of the Right and Catholic Church to women’s rights in the aftermath of the historic victory over the Eight Amendment. 1. NEW IRISH ABORTION LAW A 350 million euro hospital for the nuns, 14 years jail time for those who exercise the…
RENEGING ON REPEAL: A NEW THREAT TO ABORTION RIGHTS IN IRELAND
This article, first posted by Socialist Democracy (Ireland) on the situation in Ireland following the earlier successful repeal of the 8th amendment highlights the need to organise independently of the state. RENEGING ON REPEAL: A NEW THREAT TO ABORTION RIGHTS IN IRELAND After a period of quiet relief following the repeal referendum the…
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…
FRANKIE GOES TO IRELAND
Following Pope Francis’s visit to Ireland we are posting this article by D. R. O’Connor Lysaght of Socialist Democracy (Ireland). FRANKIE GOES TO IRELAND He came, he saw and, well, he addressed congregations considerably smaller than those prophesied, talked to representative of the many individuals assaulted by officials of his bureaucracy and went back…
NO VOTE WASTED – FOR PURE PROPORTIONAL REPRESENTATION
Murdo Ritchie argues that Socialists should support the purest form of proportional representation. NO VOTE WASTED – FOR PURE PROPORTIONAL REPRESENTATION The outcomes of all elections are the resultants produced by misshapen class struggles. The consciousness of the participants and the audience are formed in the policies. But the institutions as well as…
FEELING POWERS GROWING
The question about how socialists or communists should organise is the subject of this interchange between Silvia Federici and carla bergman and Nick Montgomery. It was posted by bella caledonia (https://bellacaledonia.org.uk/2018/06/08/feeling-powers-growing-an-interview-with-silvia-federici/). FEELING POWERS GROWING – AN INTERVIEW WITH SILVIA FEDERICI This interview was conducted by carla bergman and Nick Montgomery for Joyful Militancy (building thriving resistance…
8th AMENDMENT REFERENDUM
We are posting the following article from Socialist Democracy (Ireland) on the victory over the forces of the traditionalist Right in the 8th Amendment referendum on abortion in Ireland. CATHOLIC CHURCH KNOCKED DOWN BY REPEAL VOTE – BUT THE IRISH STATE DODGES THE BULLET The success of the referendum to repeal the…
LABOUR EXPEL LEADING ANTI-RACIST FROM PARTY TO APPEASE THE RIGHT
We are reposting this article by Tony Greenstein, writing on the sacrifice of an outstanding anti-racist, Marc Wadsworth for having dared to criticise a pro-Israel MP. CORBYN GROW A BACKBONE Watching the uncritical acceptance by Jeremy Corbyn’s office of the expulsion of Marc Wadsworth is like watching someone slowly committing suicide oblivious to all offers of help.…
SMEARS ROLL ON
Mike McNair ( CPGB-Weekly Worker) examines the ‘anti-Semitism’ smears currently focussed on the Labour Party, and in particular Jeremy Corbyn. He shows the wider political intent behind these for the Right and the Israeli state. SMEARS ROLL ON Kate Hopkins and Ian Paisley Junior, two…