The four-month breathing space As I write, the Greek finance minister Yanis Varoufakis, is meeting again with the Eurogroup finance ministers in another chapter in the tortuous negotiations over revising the conditions for the extension of the bailout programme for Greek [...]
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Yanis Varoufakis, the Greek government’s finance minister, and self-defined ‘libertarian Marxist’, is an expert in game theory in his academic career. That might have been expected to give him something of an advantage in the game of chicken that unfolded [...]
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‘Yorkshire First and movements like it aim to create a more participatory and inclusive political culture. They are, in essence, about social justice.’ Reuben Ross, Scottish Left Project: The People Demand Class has all but disappeared from the Left’s vocabulary in Scotland. [...]
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This is an edited and revised version of a talk Nick Wrack gave at a meeting of the Independent Socialist Network in January of this year. This discussion is about building a mass socialist party. It is really trying to set [...]
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The conference of the Trade Unionist and Socialist Coalition on Saturday 24 January, called to prepare for May’s general election and the council elections on the same day, could easily have descended into a fairly routine rally with the audience [...]
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This article is written in response to ‘Trotskyism at the end of the war and the democratic struggle’, a recent essay by Tim Nelson of the International Socialist Network (ISN). The piece follows the perspectives of Felix Morrow and Albert [...]
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The March 2014 Left Unity (LU) Conference agreed that the party should open discussions with other left groups, coalitions and parties to avoid electoral clashes and move towards electoral pacts – with the initial aim of creating the largest ever [...]
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Introduction For decades organisations such as No One is Illegal have been trying to take the argument against immigration controls into the socialist and trades unions. We have met with resistance, not only from people who disagree with the principles, but [...]
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Yossi is a love story about escape from loss and loneliness. The tension in this film is carried, almost exclusively, by Dr Yossi Gutmann (Ohad Knoller), a hirsute, thick-bodied man on the verge of fatness. He is 34, single, vulnerable to [...]
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Having faced outrageous neglect in the hands of the British art establishment before and after his death in 1987, Renato Guttuso: Painter of Modern Life at the Estorick Collection in London is a welcome retrospective of a fascinating figure of [...]
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