IV394 - November 2007

Since 23rd November, I am working normally. Most of the political prisoners were released and police raids were rare.

The resources used to produce the monthly Socialist Resistance newspaper are being used to support the launch of the monthly paper announced at the Respect Renewal conference.

All the fuss over the incident provoked at the Ibero-American Summit in Santiago, Chile by Franco’s Bourbon godson is nothing more than a smokescreen designed to divert attention from attempts to destabilize the democratic and constitutional government of Venezuela and at the same time, a part of this attempt.

The strikes and demonstrations against Nicolas Sarkozy’s attempted neoliberal reforms have been massive. We publish here an initial report by the LCR.

Australian right-wing premier John Howard fell to an enormous backlash against his attack on workers’ rights and his support for the US-led invasion of Iraq. But dumping Howard was just the beginning of the fightback.

Sarkozy’s election in May 2007 was a serious political defeat. But the recently elected president, hand in hand with the bosses’ union, had yet to inflict a major social defeat to the working class.

In the national elections on 13th November the Red Green Alliance struggled to maintain parliamentary representation. With a result of 2,17 % of the vote it only passed the 2 % limit by a narrow margin.

Is ecosocialism really necessary? Isn’t it implied in the very concept of socialism? Why should anybody be an ecosocialist as opposed a plain, straightforward, socialist?

’Climate poverty’ kills 150,000 every year.

Former SSP MSP Frances Curran was one of the organisers of the G8 Alternatives demonstration at Gleneagles in 2005. In this article she looks at the state of the movement today and asks where it goes from here.