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Solidarity from Tower Hamlets to Greece

Liam Mac Uaid — 2015-04-29T11:17:43Z

Liam Mc Quade of the East London Teachers' Association reports on the first local government and trade union delegation from England to visit Athens since the election of Syriza, the anti-austerity party, to office in Greece.

- News from around the world / Britain, France

“We are all Palestinians”

Liam Mac Uaid — 2014-07-20T12:54:20Z

Tens of thousands of people marched from Downing Street, home of the British prime minister to the Israeli state's London embassy on Saturday July 19th. It was a nice way of underlining the active support virtually the entire British political class gives to the perpetrators of the carnage in Gaza. The slogan that united them was “in our thousands, in our millions, we are all Palestinians. At the same time protests were taking place all across Europe, including Paris, in defiance of a ban imposed by Francois Hollande's “socialist” government.

- IV474 - July 2014 / Palestine, Britain

Left Unity launched

Liam Mac Uaid — 2013-12-09T10:43:53Z

The founding conference of Left Unity, the broad left party formed in response to the call prompted by Ken Loach's film Spirit of '45 detailing the left-wing acts of the 1945 Labour government in Britain, took place in London on 30 November 2013. This report is republished from Socialist Resistance, journal of the British section of the Fourth International. [IVP]

- IV467 - December 2013 / Britain, New parties of the left

Over 4000 at People's Assembly Against Austerity

Liam Mac Uaid — 2013-06-24T16:34:50Z

The political context for a gathering of 4000 activists and campaigners in London on June 22nd was set by the following statement that same morning by Ed Miliband, leader of the opposition Labour Party: “So when George Osborne [finance minister] stands up next week and announces his cuts in day-to-day spending, we won't be able to promise now to reverse them.”

- News from around the world / Britain

A life in the heart of the struggle

Duncan Chapel, Liam Mac Uaid — 2009-11-09T16:34:05Z

Chris Harman, the editor of International Socialism and a central committee member of the Socialist Workers' Party (SWP), died from a massive heart attack on November 6th. He was 67. We, and others in the Fourth International, join in sending condolences to Chris' family, friends and comrades.

- IV418 - November 2009 / Britain, Obituary

Respect Renewal is underway

Liam Mac Uaid — 2007-11-20T10:19:24Z

[Respect, the anti-capitalist left party in England and Wales, has split. Last weekend its two factions held separate conferences. Liam Mac Uaid, editor of Socialist Resistance, explains the roots of the division and the road forward outlined by the Respect Renewal conference.]

- IV394 - November 2007 / Britain, New parties of the left

How the SWP's bureaucratic factionalism is wrecking Respect

Liam Mac Uaid, Phil Hearse — 2007-10-31T11:13:57Z

No one who supports left unity could be anything other than deeply disheartened by the turn of events inside Respect, which has created a crisis that threatens the future of the organisation. The current crisis is unnecessary and the product of the political line and methods of organisation of the Socialist Workers Party.

- IV393 - October 2007 / Britain, New parties of the left