Tony Greenstein takes apart the BBC’s Panorama programme Is Labour anti-Semitic? providing the Right wing, racist and Islamophobic background of its producer, John Ware and highlighting the tendentious biased techniques used in its production. BBC’S WAR ON CORBYN As John Pilger has long argued, the BBC is the most refined propaganda service in…
ITALIAN DOCK WORKERS SHOW SOLIDARITY WITH MIGRANTS
The election of the national populist and racist Five Stars and Northern League government has led to a surge in state and far right in attacks on migrants in Italy. The following article by Karel Ludenhoff, an Amsterdam-based labour activist, is about the heartening response from Genoa dockworkers to attempts by desperate migrants trying to…
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…
ANOTHER EUROPE IS POSSIBLE CONFERENCE, 10.12.18, LONDON
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 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…
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…
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…
BERNADETTE MCALISKEY, SINN FEIN AND CIVIL RIGHTS
In early February, writing a platform piece in Belfast’s Irish News, Bernadette McAliskey reacted to Sinn Fein claims that they had led the early civil rights struggle. Socialist Democracy member, John McAnulty says Bernadette was absolutely right to slap down these absurd claims by a group that was not formed until years later. However much of…
AHED TAMINI – TWO FACED HYPOCRISY
We are posting this article by Tony Greenstein about the Ahed Tamini Affair. It was first posted at:- https://www.weeklyworker.co.uk/worker/1189/two-faced-hypocrisy/ TWO-FACED HYPOCRISY Ahed Tamimi: her treatment highlights the true nature of Zionism Over the past month a 16-year-old girl, Ahed Tamimi, has become a Palestinian heroine compared to Joan of Arc. Israeli Zionists…