Ken Livingstone’s dinner guests - oops! I got it wrong.

What is Ken Livingstone up to tomorrow night? According to the Guardian he’s having some guests for dinner.
· Banquet hosted by Ken Livingstone, also attended by Duke of York, at Guildhall
Also at the table will be King Abdullah of Saudi Arabia. The odd thing is that it was not so long ago that the Daily [...]

Meanwhile over at the Morning Star

It’s a damned nuisance but the only way you can read the Morning Star online is to pay a subscription. Today’s (Monday) issue contains a full page article by Communist Party of Britain general secretary Robert Griffiths. It makes for interesting reading and is open to a couple of interpretations.
The piece is called More Nuremberg [...]

Why I have rejoined Respect

It’s tricky deciding what you want to have engraved on your headstone. For me it’s a toss up between “Hey ho let’s go!” or “only change is constant”. George Galloway’s document to the Respect National Council has utterly changed the landscape inside Respect. That’s not much of an insight. What is less apparent [...]

We’ve been saying it all along

Dave Osler suggested that there may be a niche market for a Trot station on cable TV. He may be right. Socialist Resistance has already opened discussions with the Venezuelan embassy to get the financing.
 

In the meantime here’s a taster of what you’ll be able to watch when we get the cheque.
 

The first clip, [...]

Politics under Brown: Socialist Resistance editorial

Here are the collected thoughts of Socialist Resistance on the beginnings of Brown’s administration. Alan wrote it. While it’s fair to say that the Ealing election result was bad for the Tories I can think of at least one other organisation for which it was atrocoious.
New Labour’s long awaited “plan B” ­ - the [...]

Brown’s first couple of weeks

They have been pretty grim. I suppose we can’t blame him for the dreadful weather but he didn’t even try to associate himself with Al Gore’s concert demanding action on climate change.We’ll not rehearse all the ways in which Brown is quickly establishing himself as even more right wing than Blair. I’m taking it that [...]

Council housing or private equity - which does New Labour prefer?

New Labour. It’s a bit rubbish. Here’s an editorial piece for the next SR with some genuinely awful figures on the the number of council houses being built.
“By 2010 we will ensure that all social tenants benefit from a decent, warm home with modern facilities.” That’s what the Labour Party Manifesto said in 2005. [...]

Routinist and blinkered leadership of Respect

The forthcoming issue of Socialist Resistance will have a slightly more polemical cast than usual. This is one of the editorials. I didn’t write it but it indicates our collective thinking pretty clearly. The contrast between the intitiative demonstrated by the Communist Party of Britain described in this report by Andy Newman and Respect’s failure [...]

Can we build a new socialist party in Britain?

Don’t worry if you were one of the several hundred we had to turn away from last night’s Socialist Resistance forum on politics after Blair . Damn the Fire Brigade with their silly health and safety rules! We got the best bits on video for you to enjoy over and over again.
In the first video [...]

The Left after Brown’s coronation - Alan Thornett

Alan has asked me to post this reply to Andy Newman.
Those of you wishing to discuss this issue with real people in a room are very welcome to come to Socialist Resistance’s next London forum on Wednesday13 June at 7.30 in the Indian YMCA, 41 Fitzroy Square close to Warren Street tube. [...]