Category Socialism

Deepwater lesson: Expropriate the expropriators

MRzine hopes the Gulf oil spill can be a way for the socialist left to get some points across. And in the process shows how the left continues to isolate itself. Amidst mass capital-imposed structural unemployment and ever-escalating environmental collapse,…

The left vs. the working class

Red Star Times has a thoughtful rant about how the left too often shoots itself in the foot when not backstabbing the working class it claims to champion. In England, a country that is sometimes facetiously described as having a…

UK election. Now that dust has settled

John Wight dissects the UK election at Socialist Unity. Basically, the Left got clobbered, with the happy exception of Caroline Lucas being the first Green ever elected to Parliament. Despite concerted efforts by sections of the far left to create…