The new Catalan party, Catalunya en Comú, faces challenges all new political organizations must overcome.
“But I’m not going to win because the only way I’d see I came in first would be if winning meant that I was going to escape the coppers after doing the biggest bank job of my life, but winning (...)
What a difference election day makes. “Make June the end of May,” they said; and so they did.
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Theresa May has gone from being the adored “mummy” of Tory activists, whose secret strength according to A N Wilson and Matthew D’Ancona was her matriarchal “sex appeal”, to being the woman who shot the (...)
From Gujarat to Grunwick: How Progressive Politics Turned from Solidarity to Identity
August 1976. Six Guajarati women downed their tools and walked out of a photo processing factory in Grunswick, North London. The acrimonious industrial dispute that ensued would persist for two full years, (...)
For all of its success, Podemos has refused to deal seriously with the European Union and what it would take to truly transform Spain.
In Spain, the popular challenge to austerity that began with the indignados movement — commonly abbreviated as 15-M, for May 15, the day the protests began in (...)
The following piece was written for Kojkkino, the theoretical magazine of the Greek organization DEA. Though quite long, it does not claim to cover all sides of the question. Indeed, it’s the kind of article that is never really finished and that has to be constantly reworked and supplemented. (...)
This Sunday (17 January 2016) we celebrate the anniversary of our first public act: the press conference at the Lavapiés Theater District in Madrid in which we were lucky to participate. We have built a great organization which has managed in two years of history to produce a storm of enthusiasm (...)
Syriza won power in January 2015 as an anti-austerity party—the most advanced political opposition so far to the hardening deflationary policies of the Brussels–Berlin–Frankfurt axis. Six months later, the Tsipras government forced through the harshest austerity package Greece had yet seen. This (...)
Tony Benn really did pose a danger to the British establishment; because he continued, even after Thatcher and Blair, to inspire those pushing for radical change.
As the British establishment posthumously patronizes those it went all out to destroy, it’s worth remembering Tony Benn’s own (...)
It is a bitter irony that Tony Benn has died in the very same week as Bob Crow, two giants of the labour movement who will be cruelly missed writes Phil Hearse. Numerous instant obituaries and comments have concentrated on Benn’s determination, his speaking and writing talents, his humour and (...)
The renowned cultural theorist Stuart Hall, who died on 10 February, was the first editor of the New Left Review (NLR). Stepping down in 1962, he continued to play an outstanding role in the broader New Left for the rest of his life. Stuart made decisive contributions to cultural theory and (...)
It took many decades and much bitter argument before the British left embraced the Palestinian cause, writes Mike Marqusee.
Today the left is attacked for ‘singling out’ Israel for criticism but historically its record is the opposite, as demonstrated in Paul Kelemen’s invaluable recent book The (...)
On Friday 20 December comrades in Portugal celebrated the fortieth anniversary of the foundation of the Portuguese section, which took place therefore only a few months before the Portuguese revolution of 25 April 1974. The Partido Socialista Revolucionário (PSR) was an active force on the (...)
This essay is inspired by the recent article by Denis Godard titled: “The NPA in crisis: We have to explain because we have to start again.” His article is a review of the strategic orientation of the historically Trotskyist-origined tendencies that prioritize building independent class (...)
Yvan Craipeau, trans. David Broder, Swimming Against the Tide: Trotskyists in German Occupied France. Merlin Press, 383pp, £18.99, ISBN 9780850366587
The Second World War remains a matter of controversy. Two recent books - Donny Gluckstein’s A People’s History of the Second World War (Pluto, (...)
Tony Cliff, A Marxist for His Time. By Ian Birchall. London, England: Bookmarks Publications, 2011, 648 pages. Approx. $25 paperback (available from Amazon).
THE RECENT SCANDAL in the British Socialist Workers Party (SWP), involving accusations of rape against one of its leaders and opening up (...)
Today, the socialist left in Europe confronts a situation markedly different than most of the twentieth century. The traditional parties of the left and labour have, in most advanced capitalist societies, ceased to exist. The social-democratic parties, while maintaining significant electoral (...)
On the Italian Communist Party and the path not taken between the horrors of state socialism and the bankruptcy of modern social democracy.
Amid twinkling fingers and Guy Fawkes masks, few were pining for central committees. Occupy’s emergence was welcomed. The movement galvanized radicals, (...)
This text, of which the first parts were discussed collectively, in particular with the comrades of the Anticapitalist Left (GA) who are members of the International Committee (IC), represents the majority view of the comrades of the NPA who are members of the IC. This contribution was (...)
This contribution is by three members of the Gauche Anticapitaliste (Anticapitalist Left) which left the NPA in July 2012. Their contribution was presented in the framework of the ongoing discussion on “broad parties” within the Fourth International.
A period marked by the question of left unity (...)
In discussions about building anti-capitalist parties the Italian example is frequently quoted particularly in relation to Rifondazione Comunista [RC or PRC (Communist Refoundation Party)] and the eventual failure of its political project. For a fuller discussion and a more precise approach to (...)
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