Behind the headlines and vicious brutality of Syria's civil war lie amazing examples of self organisation, the story of which is largely unknown to most in the West. It is this self organisation, and not Saudi or Turkish aid, which [...]
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Negotiating a difficult path
We publish in this issue a document presented by the Independent Socialist Network (ISN) to the Trade Unionist and Socialist Coalition (TUSC) national steering committee on 17 June 2015, to discuss the question of how to develop TUSC. The document [...]
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Another Europe is possible
Europe. The very word conjures up pictures of unelected bureaucrats and no-mark politicians sitting in a distant parliament passing laws on how much a banana can bend and imposing dodgy things like human rights on us. The European Union (EU) [...]
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Scotland after the elections
May’s General Election saw a surge in nationalism on both sides of the border. In Scotland, the Scottish National Party (SNP) overturned the longstanding dominance of the Labour Party to win 56 of the 59 Scottish seats, while the Conservative [...]
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What next for TUSC? – Proposals from the Independent Socialist Network
We present this paper in the spirit of comradely participation with our comrades in TUSC. We believe that TUSC is a significant achievement that should be maintained and developed. We present the ideas in this paper to assist that aim. This [...]
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Syriza, the Troika and Grexit
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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Syriza’s gambit comes unstuck– what next?
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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The Left, Europe and the case for socialism
Will McMahon searches for a genuinely socialist perspective on the European question. Prior to the 1992 General Election the ostensibly socialist journal New Left Review No 191 carried an article titled 'The Ruins of Westminster' by Robin Blackburn. One of the [...]
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Democracy, discipline and resistance
The political moment in which we operate has posed a stark challenge to the revolutionary movement a challenge we have just not been up to. At the hands of capital and the strange non-death of the neo-liberalism many of [...]
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