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Who we areA revolutionary socialist organisation committed to overthrowing the barbaric capitalist system. Active across England, Scotland and Wales - fighting attacks on working people. The British Section of the Fourth International, working with our comrades across the world in resisting the neoliberal offensive of which New Labour is such a champion. Our DiaryJoin in action and debate with ISG comrades. Socialist OutlookThe ISG’s quarterly magazine, looking in depth at issues being raised in the anti-capitalist, anti-war, labour and trade union movements. Editorial
Blair: “I only know what I believe.”Blair tries his best to avoid being remembered as Bush’s ‘poodle’, but his low popularity ratings reveal that Iraq will be his legacy. The war that was launched on lies about WMD but was really about oil and the containment of China will be what he is remembered for. Britain
Blair’s legacy: Building an alternative to new LabourAlan Thornett looks at Blair’s Britain after ten years of a new Labour government. Venezuela
The Challenge of Socialism in the 21st CenturySome provisional lessons from Venezuela
The tension at the heart of Venezuela’s Bolivarian revolution, there for several years, has come to the forefront in recent months, since Hugo Chavez’ re-election as president in December 2006. Here Stuart Piper discusses the tension between the revolution’s anti-neoliberal and anti-imperialist achievements – which are undeniable – and its socialist promise – which remains just that, a promise. Socialist ResistanceSocialist Resistance is a monthly Marxist newspaper produced since October 2002 by ISG supporters and other individual activists from the environmental, global justice, anti-imperialist, anti-capitalist and anti-war movements as well as Respect. Palestine
Palestinians divided: End the Israeli occupation!The bloody conflict that has broken out between Hamas and Fatah in Gaza and the West Bank will be music to the ears of the Israelis, the US and the EU. Labour leadership transition
Missed chances to build RespectThe inauguration of Gordon Brown and his new deputy leader at the end of June will close a period of relatively heightened debate and slightly more open-minded analysis of the state of working class politics in Britain. Venezuela - Media Debate
Media in Venezuela: from mythology to liberationVenezuelan President Hugo Chavez’s recent refusal to renew the licence of a private television company Radio Caracas Television (RCTV) for using the public airwaves has triggered a new polarisation, and something of a debate over how media freedom and democratic access to the media can be achieved and maintained in the process of socialist revolution. Here we carry three initial responses to the events and the hysterical bourgeois response to Chavez’s action. International ViewpointNews and analysis from the Fourth International - International Viewpoint, a monthly english-language on-line magazine opening a window to radical alternatives world-wide. The latest 3 articles from the site: “Die Linke”, a new party between hope and adaptationAs of June 16, 2007 at 16.36h, the Linkspartei.PDS (Left Party. of Democratic Socialism) and the WASG (Electoral Alternative For Jobs and Social Justice) no longer exist. After two years of preparations, they formally merged to create the new party Die Linke (The Left). - IV391 - July-August (...) For a way out of the crisis of the PRC towards the left1. The obvious political crisis of the Prodi government and the conflicts between its components mark the bankruptcy of the political project of the Union, which was victorious in the elections in 2006, but which is incapable of representing a real political and social alternative in opposition (...) Politics under BrownNew Labour's long awaited "plan B" – the replacement of Blair by Brown when Blair became electorally damaged beyond repair - is working, at least as far as Labour's short term electoral prospects are concerned. - IV391 - July-August 2007 / (...) SR BooksInternational distributor of "It’s never too late to love or rebel", Celia Hart’s only book in English, and other progressive books. Socialist Resistance Books
New books defend MarxismThree titles from Resistance
Three new paperbacks from Socialist Resistance address some of the major questions facing the progressive movement today. Middle East
Middle East: war, imperialism, and ecologySixty years of resistance - Edited by Roland Rance and Terry Conway
How was Palestine destroyed? Did the great powers create Israel? Why has Lebanon sufferd war after war? What role has religion played in the Middle East? When did the region become the hub of the world’s ecological crisis? If you want answers to any of these questions, then you need this book. Environment
Ecosocialism or BarbarismEdited by Jane Kelly and Sheila Malone
Ecosocialism or Barbarism explains that the twenty-first century has opened on a catastrophic note, with an unprecedented degree of ecological breakdown and a chaotic world order beset with terror and warfare. What we thinkWhy does the ISG support RESPECT? What do we think about the attacks on young Muslim women wearing the hijab (headscarf)? What is going on in Brazil? Get a clearer idea of what we think on issues that affect us all Labour Party
Politics under BrownSocialist Resistance editorial – 23 July 2007
New Labour’s long awaited “plan B” – the replacement of Blair by Brown when Blair became electorally damaged beyond repair ¬ is working, at least as far as Labour’s short term electoral prospects are concerned. We have the predictable “Brown bounce”, with new Labour leading the Tories for the first time in many months. Tory/Labour opinion polls were always meaningless whilst Blair was still there and until Brown took over. Palestine
Only the end of the Israeli occupation can halt the unfolding tragedy in GazaThe tragedy unfolding in the streets and refugee camps of Gaza represents the death throes of the Oslo “peace process”. Labour Party
Brown wins without a contest - where now for the Labour left?Socialist Resistance Statement
We can all say good riddance to Tony Blair. It was fitting that it was the war that got him in the end. However he tried he could never shake off the lies and bloodshed involved. Gordon Brown will now be crowned Labour leader and then Prime Minister on June 27. Its goodbye Blair, but Blairism continues. Basic MarxismIn order to change the world it is necessary first to understand it. Basic marxism
IntroductionThis short study guide to Marxism is based on a guide published by the International Marxist Group in 1977 and has been reissued in response to the growing demand for Marxist educational material. Basic marxism
Four InternationalsFrom the earliest days of modern industry the working class has been compelled to seek unity on an international level or suffer defeat in its elementary struggles with the capitalist class. Basic marxism
Session 1: Social Inequality and Class StruggleClasses emerge at a distinct point in the evolution of human society on a particular economic foundation. ArchiveIn this part of our site we have brought together historic texts from our collective past. Trotskyists and the Resistance in World War Two"If we look at the problem of World War II from a more dialectical, more correct Leninist point of view, we have to say that it was a very complicated business indeed." Marx and Engels on the Economy of Post-Capitalist SocietiesSocialism is an economic system based upon conscious planning of production by associated producers (nowhere does Marx say: by the state), made possible by the abolition of private property of the means of production. Marx’s Theory of CrisesMarx did not write a systematic treatise on capitalist crises. His major comments on the subject are spread around his major economic writings. Fourth InternationalFor the Fourth International, "the emancipation of the workers will be the work of the workers themselves" and "socialism will be international or it will not exist." February 2004 - The present moment of the movement in EuropeThe main fact to be noted in the current phase in imperialist Europe is the wave of self-activity in society over the last two years (since the outburst in Genoa in July 2001) in opposition to war and neoliberal policies. February 2004 - Report on the international situationThis report lies within the framework of the Resolutions and Reports of the 15th World Congress. It results from the discussions and the activity of the principal sections of the International, from our strong points but also from our limitations and our weaknesses. February 2004 - FI International Committee meetsThe International Committee of the Fourth International, elected at the World Congress in February 2003, had its first plenary meeting this February. This particularly well-attended meeting had a full agenda. LinksAn eclectic list of useful political and campaign organisations. ISG comrades work in many of these organisations. But this is by no means an exhaustive or definitive list - if you know of other useful websites you think we could promote let us know. Fourth International LinksAcross the world, on every continent, country by country, the Fourth International organises thousands of socialist militants in its sections. Find out more about the Fourth International and its sections direct from their websites. Contact usFeedback - We want you to get in touch - so let us know what you think of this website and our organisation. |
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