No attack on Syria – National Demonstration: Saturday 31 August
Assemble 12 noon, Embankment, London Further details from Stop the War Coalition
Month: August 2013
Emergency protest: No attack on Syria 28 August London
Emergency protest: No attack on Syria Downing Street, 5—7pm, Wednesday 28 August Following the victory of the counter-revolution in Egypt, imperialism is now moving on to eliminate its next target in the Middle [Read more]
Egypt – why the left needs to learn to tell counter-revolution from revolution
By Jane West
The unfolding counter-revolution in Egypt has been an object lesson in the correctness of Lenin’s insistence on the need to analyse each situation from the point of view of the interrelation of all classes and social layers if its dynamics are to be understood and the correct class lines identified.
Since the beginning of this year Socialist Action has warned that the military and Mubarakite forces in Egypt were preparing the conditions for a counter-revolutionary coup. This analysis has been proven correct in the bloody unfolding of events in Egypt.
The dynamic of Britain’s political situation will pose the need for a left party
By Jane West
In recent months the true character of the Miliband leadership of the Labour Party has been more clearly revealed.
The combination of its commitment to maintain austerity and implement the Tory cuts, attacks on the union role in the Party and nasty and vituperative campaigns against the employment of East European migrant labour marks out the contours of the coming Labour or Labour-led government after 2015.
The US economic slowdown is much greater than China’s
Discussion about the trends in the world economy emerging from the 2008 financial crisis is dominated by the relative growth rates of the US and China – the world’s two largest economies.
The media discussion has been focusing on concerns about China’s slowdown and its global impact, while the US is portrayed a recovering well. In fact both major economies are slowing in the context of continued global economic weakness, but the US is slowing much more than China.
The following article, by John Ross, looks at these facts in detail and points out that the key question is not ‘why is China slowing?’, but why has the US slowed much more dramatically than China in the last year?
Miliband, the union link and ‘New Labour Mark 2’
By Jane West
Ed Miliband’s decision to call a Special Conference in Spring 2014 to change the relationship between the unions and the Labour Party has been dubbed his ‘Clause IV moment’, in reference to Tony Blair’s Easter 1995 Special Conference that changed the Party’s Aims and Values.