The King is dead….. long live the King!

On 4th April the result of the Labour Party leadership election was announced and true to form and the prediction of the bourgeois press, Sir Keir Starmer was announced as the new leader of the opposition.  Starmer, the establishment stooge, has hammered the final nail into the coffin of the Corbyn project. Corbyn’s leadership success … Continue reading The King is dead….. long live the King!

The Wages of Opportunism – Zionism, Centrism and Capitulation

By Ian Donovan So Gerry Downing’s ‘change of heart’ on Zionism, leads to Tony Greenstein writing an ‘unsolicited’ letter of support for Gerry (see below) to the Palestine Solidarity Campaign executive, a melange of Abbas/Fatah supporters and treacherous Socialist Action bureaucrats who organise events featuring Zionist witchhunters such as Emily Thornberry (of Labour Friends of Israel), begging … Continue reading The Wages of Opportunism – Zionism, Centrism and Capitulation

Racism and Socialist Fight: a Matter of Political Hygiene

The following letter was sent to the Weekly Worker in time for last week’s online edition, but was not published, in reply to Gerry Downing’s weak letter (see ‘Scurillous’ here) in the previous issue defending his comrade Gareth Martin against charges of racism. No doubt the editors did not consider concluding this exchange properly a … Continue reading Racism and Socialist Fight: a Matter of Political Hygiene

Boris Johnson’s Suicidal Social-Darwinist Arrogance

The Prime Minister of Britain, Boris Johnson, is tonight in intensive care in St Thomas’s Hospital, London, apparently receiving oxygen on a ventilator after spending around two weeks with worsening Covid-19. It is possible he will not survive the viral pneumonia that has set in. This is possibly the most shocking and prominent demonstration yet … Continue reading Boris Johnson’s Suicidal Social-Darwinist Arrogance

The Covid-19 Pandemic and the World Capitalist Crisis – Statement

The undersigned revolutionary working-class groups demand the protection of all workers and oppressed people from the dangers caused by the Covid-19 pandemic, which is a very dangerous threat to the health and lives of the oppressed. Particularly older workers, the retired, the disabled, those with underlying health conditions, to prisoners, the impoverished, those in nations … Continue reading The Covid-19 Pandemic and the World Capitalist Crisis – Statement

New Marxist Journal Communist Fight. Issue #1 out now

Issue #1 of Communist Fight, journal of the Trotskyist Faction of Socialist Fight, out now: Articles on Coronavirus crisis Turkey’s incursion in Syria Our Platform Zionism and the capitulation of former revolutionaries: why we take on the mantle of the old Socialist Fight Due to the Covid-19 crisis this is not currently available in hard … Continue reading New Marxist Journal Communist Fight. Issue #1 out now

Centrist Tony Greenstein in the Middle of the Road

We should be thankful for small mercies, or perhaps for lesser kinds of opportunism. In the aftermath of Gerry Downing’s capitulation to the heavily Zionist-influenced defeat of the Corbyn-movement and his betrayal of the uncompromising anti-Zionism that he publicly fought for in the last five years, Tony Greenstein has actually emerged somewhat to Downing’s left.[1] … Continue reading Centrist Tony Greenstein in the Middle of the Road

No to Turkish aggression, no to Imperialism!

Trotskyist Faction Statement Just a little over a week ago (5th March 2020) saw a meeting in Moscow take place between Presidents Putin of Russia and Erdoğan of Turkey, which came on the back of a disastrous week for Turkey that saw 33 Turkish soldiers killed in Idlib with many more injured. Circumstances around the … Continue reading No to Turkish aggression, no to Imperialism!

Coronavirus, COVID-19

By Naciye Suman Coronaviruses, are viruses and named for their crown like spikes that protrude from its surface  with the name COVID-19 given to this particular virus by the World Health Organisation (WHO), which derived from the first letters of the words ‘coronavirus’, ‘virus’ and ‘disease’  with the number 19 representing the year (2019). This … Continue reading Coronavirus, COVID-19