Respect
Britain: Politics in crisis — prospects for the hard right and militant left
Richard Seymour: The British left badly 'needs to change course'
The following are excerpts from a much longer article, "The
Britain: Is the left coming together or falling apart?
By Socialist Resistance (Britain)
January 29, 2013 -- This is the editorial from the latest issue of the British socialist newspaper Socialist Resistance -- Recent events on the [British] left give the impression that it is falling apart. Last summer, following George Galloway’s outrageous comments on rape, Respect suffered the resignation of Kate Hudson, Andrew Burgin, Salma Yaqoob and others. Now, the Socialist Workers Party is tearing itself apart after its leadership tried to protect one of its own from allegations of rape in order to “defend the party”.
Britain: ‘To fight austerity we need a united left’ -- Anticapitalist Initiative
By Simon Hardy, Anticapitalist Initiative (Britain)
Britain: Coalition government parties battered in local elections
Respect's Alyas Karmani defeated the Labour Party leader o
Britain: The space to the left of the Labour Party just got huge
By Socialist Resistance (Britain)
Britain: A simple proposal for a new anti-capitalist left
By Simon Hardy
April 15, 2012 -- Posted at Links International Journal of Socialist Renewal with the author's permission, in the interests of left discussion in the wake of George Galloway's success in Bradford West -- I along with a number of other members of Workers Power in Britain, Austria and the Czech Republic have resigned from the organisation. The global capitalist crisis has posed tremendous questions for the radical left about how to go forward. We have increasingly drawn the conclusion that the historical legacy of the post-war left, in particular the Leninist-Trotskyist left, needs to be subjected to far-reaching critique and re-evaluation in light of the contemporary challenges.
The organised left is dogged by sectarianism and opportunism. There are quite literally hundreds of competing orthodoxies, with each sect promoting and defending its own, typically very narrow, conception of revolutionary theory and practice without subjecting their ideas to the critical re-evaluation which we believe is necessary if Marxism is to reach out to far wider layers.