Solidarity 515, 5 September 2019

Tories’ Brexit targets migrants

New Home Secretary Priti Patel wants to end free movement from the European Union into Britain overnight on 31 October. She has pulled back, according to reports in The Independent and The Guardian, only because lawyers warned her that moves “to end freedom of movement without a vote from MPs could see ministers taken to court — with a 70 per cent chance of them losing their case”. Under all variants of EU withdrawal with a deal, free movement would continue for some two years of the “transition period”. The Tories introduced an Immigration Bill in January to empower the government to make...

Storm on the streets

To the chants “No one voted for Boris” and “Save our democracy, stop the coup” hundreds of thousands have marched in cities across the UK in the last three days. The central co-ordinating work was done by Another Europe is Possible, working with a broader coalition of left anti-Brexit campaigners. There were around 80 demonstrations on Saturday 31st. Friday 30 August 200 people attended a lively protest in Darlington. 400 were on the protest in Leicester with Labour and trade union speakers. UCU members marched down in the city centre with placards and drums. A comrade from Calderdale reports...

More on why ISO collapsed

At Socialist Alternative's (S Alt's) "Socialism Sydney 2019" event I was able to talk with some people from S Alt about the collapse and disappearance, in March-April this year, of the International Socialist Organisation USA. The ISO was the biggest group outside Australia with which S Alt had links. With maybe 900 members, the ISO was, and had been for a while, the most active revolutionary socialist group in the USA. Its political history could be traced back (with twists and shifts along the way) to the Workers' Party of Max Shachtman (from 1940). Revolutionary socialist groups often...

Violence in Lewisham Momentum

More on what happened in Lewisham Momentum 2018-19 here . A further series of unpleasant attacks on left activists aligned with Workers’ Liberty took place at the Lewisham Momentum meeting held on Wednesday 14 August. The most serious incident at this Momentum meeting was that Bill Jefferies of Ladywell ward, Lewisham Deptford CLP, physically attacked me. He hit me on the chin and grabbed my throat, in the hall outside the meeting room as the meeting was breaking up. He is 10cm taller and 40kg heavier than me. I’m okay, as always. But my chin still hurts and there’s a mark on my neck. The...

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