Halloween strike: the mood on the picket lines
Here’s a round-up of mini-reports on today’s higher education strike, taken by comrades on phones and uploaded to social media.
“The politics of the SWP crisis” – a response
A response to the ISJ article by Charlie Kimber and Alex Callinicos is now up on the journal’s website. It is signed 18 journal board members.
Updates on International Socialism Journal 140
The latest edition of the International Socialism journal has been published and is available online.
To those arrested: my heart
Last Saturday’ anti-EDL demonstration in Tower Hamlets successfully kept the fascists out of the borough – but at a heavy cost. The police used powers under the Public Order Act to mass arrest anti-fascist protesters, journalists and even legal observers.
ISJ: Alex Callinicos on the left in Britain
Callinicos traces the crisis currently facing the Conservative party and argues that this is likely to lead to the Tories losing the next election.
The most advanced ideas?
Dan Swain has pitched in to the debates around what “Leninism” means today and historically.