Peter Fryer's reports for the Daily Worker from Budapest during the Hungarian workers' revolution in 1956 were suppressed because they told the truth. Fryer broke with Stalinism and became a Trotskyist. These reports are from The Militant (USA), October-November 1957.
Conference documents for December SWP conference indicate another split is likely, but can the latest opposition grouping work through their political experience in the SWP?
Political Islam as a reactionary anti-imperialist force with its own roots, its own dynamic, and its own autonomy, not just something "installed" or "deployed" by the USA.
The Unite union’s defeat by Ineos at the Grangemouth oil refinery and petrochemicals plant in Scotland merits serious analysis and discussion by socialist organisations. We need to understand what happened and draw appropriate lessons in order to minimise the risk of such defeats in future.
On Saturday 2 November a memorial service was held in London by the Worker-Communist Party of Iraq and Iraqi Kurdistan in memory of their fallen comrade Azad Ahmed.
As the Socialist Workers Party moves towards its December conference with hot dispute between its Central Committee and a large opposition faction, the Socialist Party is also immersed in conflict.
The last in a series of articles assessing Hugo Chávez’s political legacy and the relationship of the “Bolivarian” state to Venezuela’s working class looks at the attitude of international Trotskyism to Chávez.
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