Ken Loach and SWP on the need for left unity

From an interview with Martin Smith in the new Socialist Review:

"My feeling is that we need to think of the regroupment of the left in Britain in terms of the European left now. The European left is a project obviously bigger than any one group. I am very encouraged by the events in France right now and the development of the Nouveau Parti Anticapitaliste. The European left, which is so big, will just swallow up the differences between the different groups on the left over here. I've been in meetings where we've talked about this for 45 years, and organisationally are we any further forward in all that time? If you want to be depressed, that's the depressing thing. On the optimistic side the need just gets more and more intense. It was urgent after the Iraq war, but now even more urgent with the collapse of the banks and increasing unemployment, industries closing down and so on, and the environmental disaster that's awaiting the next generation. The pressure to unite just gets bigger and bigger. Every left meeting I go to is based on the fact that the crisis is about to engulf us all. It's not in the distant future. It's unfolding before us now. We've got to get together at some point. Living in separate tents isn't going to solve anything really."

Read the open letter from the SWP HERE entitled 'Left must unite to create an alternative'

GAZA, PALESTINE AND REVOLUTION IN THE MIDDLE EAST-All welcome

Public meeting hosted by the Socialist Workers Party

Speakers:
ALEX CALLINICOS
Author, Imperialism and Global Political Economy

SIMON ASSAF
Socialist Worker journalist, recently returned from Beirut

ANNE ALEXANDER
Co-author, The Nakba

ESTELLE COOCH
Student in occupation

Thursday 29 January, 7pm
Small Hall, Friends Meeting House,
opposite Euston Station, London NW1 2BJ

Lenin & the Party part 3

Excellent animated video recording of Tony Cliff, the founding member of SWP from notthe BBC

Why do we need a revolutionary party? Marx said "the emancipation of the working class is the act of the working class". But, at the same time, there exists a contradiction. That is: the ruling ideas are in society are the ideas of the ruling class.

How do we overcome these contradictions? Who are strikers fighting against? What can and should revolutionaries do to intervene?

Part one can be found here...thanks to notthebbc

Part two HERE

What's behind the world economic meltdown? Chris Bambery, editor of Socialist Worker

István Mészáros, student of Lukács - Understanding the world economic crisis

from Ady Cousins-see more of his videos on many different topics here

Lenin & the Party-Tony Cliff part 1

Excellent animated video recording of Tony Cliff, the founding member of SWP from notthe BBC

Why do we need a revolutionary party? Marx said "the emancipation of the working class is the act of the working class". But, at the same time, there exists a contradiction. That is: the ruling ideas are in society are the ideas of the ruling class.

How do we overcome these contradictions? Who are strikers fighting against? What can and should revolutionaries do to intervene?

It's so good it's a repeat...

Socialists, the crisis - a call to action

SWP LONDON-WIDE PUBLIC MEETING

"Socialists, the crisis - a call to action"

Wednesday 8th October, 7pm
ULU, Room 3 C/D, Malet Street, WC1(Nearest tubes Goodge St, Warren St or Euston)

The financial crisis shows no sign of ending. Bosses' organisation British Chambers of Commerce stated today that the UK economy is already inrecession. Banks are being nationalised across Europe. European governmentsare squabbling over how to respond.

All this affects working people. British Chambers of Commerce predicts over 300,000 people will be made unemployed in the next year or so. Already lay-offs have begun - ITN are sacking 1000 staff out of 5000; MFI are closing 100 out of 190 stores; Fords Southampton have put the staff on a four day week and in the last six weeks nearly 50,000 jobs have gone in the finance sector.

This is a disaster for the bosses and the mainstream pro-market political parties. We have a huge opportunity to win people to an alternative. But thecrisis is so big we can feel paralysed by it. We need to start arguing thatworkers won't pay for the bosses' crisis. And we need to take action to show that capitalism is to blame, and an alternative is possible.

Please come along and bring with you friends, workmates and local campaigners.

John Pilger presents: Breaking the Silence

'Breaking the Silence' exposes the horrors that imperialistm unleashed upon the Afghan people, and locates this in the broader context of the "war on terror".
John Pilger will bring the film up to date and answer questions afterwards.

Tickets cost £8 wages, £5 concessions
Ticket hotline: 020 7819 1190.

You can book online at www.swappeal.org.uk or email appeal@socialistworker.co.uk

Tickets are also available from Bookmarks bookshop,
1 Bloomsbury Street WC1. Tel 020 7637 1848

Open meeting: How do we stop the BNP?

Open meeting: ALL welcome.

Euromed Cafe, 225 Kentish Town Road, NW3

Call Clare on 07958 034 181 for more details. I am meeting people beforehand so call me if you want to meet a bit earlier to go together.

Unite Against Fascism














When I sent this flyer below to the printers the woman who worked there said her boss had a fit when he saw it in the inbox coz he thought it was FOR the BNP...I asked her whether he would have printed them: 'You must be joking: absolutely NO WAY', she said.

United Against Fascism We Stand

Click on this leaflet for 5 lies the BNP tell

Lenin & the Party-Tony Cliff part 1

Excellent animated video recording of Tony Cliff, the founding member of SWP from notthe BBC

Why do we need a revolutionary party? Marx said "the emancipation of the working class is the act of the working class". But, at the same time, there exists a contradiction. That is: the ruling ideas are in society are the ideas of the ruling class.

How do we overcome these contradictions? Who are strikers fighting against? What can and should revolutionaries do to intervene?