Solidarity 096, 13 July 2006

As ye sow...

Ira Berkovic reports on “chaos” in Tower Hamlets Respect According to our friends in the Communist Party of Great Britain (Weekly Worker), serious friction is afoot in Tower Hamlets Respect – which is, of course, the spiritual home of Gorgeous George’s “Unity Coalition.” Believe it or not, there seems to have been some conflict between the two main organised elements in the organisation – the Socialist Workers’ Party (SWP), and small business people from the local Bengali community. The Weekly Worker carries a report of “a clumsy attempt, apparently supported by council group leader Abjol Miah...

Dog doesn’t bark

This is an editorial from Solidarity’s forerunner, Socialist Organiser (27 September 1984) SOME readers last year thought Socialist Organiser was wasting time and valuable space when we published an article on the naked anti-semitism of an editorial which appeared in Newsline, the daily paper put out by the Workers Revolutionary Party (with, it is widely assumed, financial help from their friend Col. Gaddafi, Libya's eccentric dictator). The editorial, entitled “The Zionist Connection”, had a smaller headline above it: “From Socialist Organiser to Thatcher and Reagan”. It began: “A powerful...

SSP: personality cult or class-struggle party?

The Alliance for Workers’ Liberty spoke to Andy McPake, an activist in the Scottish Socialist Youth and a supporter of the SSP-United Left about the current crisis in the Scottish Socialist Party. This is an unedited version of the interview. An abridged version appeared in the print version of Solidarity 3/96. 1. Tommy Sheridan's libel case against the News Of The World has now started. In court leading SSPers such as Allison Kane and Alan McCombes have testified that Tommy Sheridan admitted to them some of the personal things over which he is now suing the News Of The World. Tommy Sheridan's...

Workers' control not immigration controls

“Workers control not immigration controls” is the main title of a “programme for trades unions” produced by the campaign group, No One Is Illegal (NOII). NOII is an explicitly political campaign, which while it supports people in detention or facing deportations, is mainly concerned to deconstruct the system erected around immigration controls, to combat nationalism and exploitation. These explicitly socialistic concerns are reflected in the pamphlet. NOII believes that, especially because of the internationalisation of immigration controls, the debate on this issue is beginning to open up on...

No deportations!

No deportations to Iraq! The Coalition to Stop Deportations to Iraq held a successful and well-attended conference in London on Saturday 24 June, opened by John McDonnell MP. Dashty Jamal of the International Federation of Iraqi Refugees gave an overview of the current situation in Iraq— “turned from a modern country into a jungle”. Sawsan Salim from the Kurdistan Refugee Women’s organisation spoke of the circumstances of women fleeing from Iraqi Kurdistan. Sarah Cutler (Bail for immigration Detainees) gave a practical speech to the conference about the first steps to be taken by asylum...

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