International Socialist Group - British Section of the Fourth International (original) (raw)
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Who we are
A revolutionary socialist organisation committed to overthrowing the barbaric capitalist system. Active across England, Scotland and Wales - fighting attacks on working people. The British Section of the Fourth International, working with our comrades across the world in resisting the neoliberal offensive of which New Labour is such a champion.
Our Diary
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Socialist Outlook
The ISG’s magazine, looking in depth at issues being raised in the anti-capitalist, anti-war, labour and trade union movements.
Vietnam Solidarity Campaign veteran on secret reports
Exposed: British police spies worked to isolate anti-war movement
On the Secret Internal Police Reports about the 1968 mobilizations
Recently, Solomon Hughes of the British daily, the Guardian, has been in touch with me regarding the recently released London police reports about the preparations for the October 27th, 1968, mobilizations against the Vietnam War, which my partner, Jess MacKenzie and I were involved in.
Books in French
LCR bookshop La Breche gains British distribution
ISG members are now distributing books and CDs from the Ligue communiste revolutionnaire. London is home to 200,000 French expatriates, and many British socialists can also read French.
Memories of Greg Tucker
Speeches and condolences
Hundreds came to London to celebrate the life of Greg Tucker, a central leader of the Fourth International and one of Britain’s outstanding trade unionists. The speeches at his funeral, and messages of condolence from around the world, came from many of Greg’s comrades and loved ones.
Socialist Resistance
Socialist Resistance is a Marxist periodical produced since October 2002 by ISG supporters and other individual activists from the environmental, global justice, anti-imperialist, anti-capitalist and anti-war movements as well as Respect.
Editorial
Not one more death – Troops out now
Gordon Brown’s first visit to Iraq as Prime Minister may have been a miscalculation. It’s certainly a hard act to pull off. The reality is that everyone – on both sides of the Atlantic – knows that Iraq is a disaster.
Respect
A new crisis or a new opportunity?
Just when the need for a party like Respect is clearer than ever, with the arrival of Brown and the snuffing out of the last vestiges of democracy in the Labour Party, Respect has been passing through the biggest crisis in its three-and-a-half year history. Alan Thornett reports on the events and decisions of Respect’s September National Council meetings.
Editorial
Brown’s biggest gamble
AS THIS issue of Socialist Resistance was preparing to go to press one huge issue has been dominating the domestic news agenda, giving some other discussions a slight air of unreality: will Gordon Brown, Prime Minister for just on three months, opt for an early election, on November 1 or 8?
International Viewpoint
News and analysis from the Fourth International - International Viewpoint, a monthly english-language on-line magazine opening a window to radical alternatives world-wide.
The latest 3 articles from the site:
The `Prague Spring' and the `Prague Autumn'
November 21 2008 marked the fortieth anniversary of the end of the student strike in Czechoslovakia against the occupation of the country by Russian troops the preceding August. - IV407 - December 2008
Down with the government of murderers!
We, the organizations of the anticapitalist Left that sign this text, want to condemn the murder, in cold blood, of 16 year old Alexis Grigoropoulos by a police special guard in the evening of December 6th. - IV407 - December 2008 / (...)
Solidarity with the social rebellion
On Saturday 6 December, the Greek police murdered in cold blood Alexis Grigoropoulos, a 15-year old school boy, in the centre of Athens. Spontaneous protests erupted immediately after the killing in Athens, Thessaloniki and other cities of Greece and escalated to widespread revolt all over the (...)
SR Books
International distributor of "It’s never too late to love or rebel", Celia Hart’s only book in English, and other progressive books.
Socialist Resistance Books
New books defend Marxism
Three titles from Resistance
Three new paperbacks from Socialist Resistance address some of the major questions facing the progressive movement today.
Middle East
Middle East: war, imperialism, and ecology
Sixty years of resistance - Edited by Roland Rance and Terry Conway
How was Palestine destroyed? Did the great powers create Israel? Why has Lebanon sufferd war after war? What role has religion played in the Middle East? When did the region become the hub of the world’s ecological crisis? If you want answers to any of these questions, then you need this book.
Environment
Ecosocialism or Barbarism
Edited by Jane Kelly and Sheila Malone
Ecosocialism or Barbarism explains that the twenty-first century has opened on a catastrophic note, with an unprecedented degree of ecological breakdown and a chaotic world order beset with terror and warfare.
What we think
Why does the ISG support RESPECT? What do we think about the attacks on young Muslim women wearing the hijab (headscarf)? What is going on in Brazil? Get a clearer idea of what we think on issues that affect us all
Respect
RESPECT AT THE CROSSROADS
"...it has become clear over the last two months, and the last two weeks in particular, that the actions of the SWP leadership imperil the very existence of Respect as a broad, pluralistic and democratic left alternative to New Labour... We are appealing to members of Respect to support us in defending the coalition’s plurality. We can no longer allow Respect to be jeopardised by one section." - The following document has been sent today (24 October) by National Chair of Respect, Linda Smith, to the Respect office in order for it to be circulated to all Respect National Council members. It has been widely circulated on left blogs and in the light of the editorial printed in Socialist Worker attacking George Galloway and others this week we believe that it is important that all Respect members understand what is at currently at stake for the future of Respect.
Respect
A new crisis or a new opportunity?
Report on the Respect NC meetings - September 2007
Alan Thornett reports from the latest Respect National Council meetings: "The jury is out on whether enough has been done to re-launch Respect on a broader and more inclusive basis. It is also out on whether the political will exists in the SWP leadership to positively implement the decisions adopted which could take the organisation forward. ...both in terms of tasks and priorities and in terms of opening up Respect to the broader movement. In fact if fully implemented (what we proposed and was agreed) could re-launch Respect on a more open and attractive basis."
Respect
George Galloway’s letter, where we stand
September 2007
George Galloway has initiated a debate inside Respect on how to stengthen its organisation and prepare for a general election. Preparing for a Respect National Council discussion Alan Thornett and John Lister, after consultling with the "Respect Party Platform", have submitted this statement.
Basic Marxism
In order to change the world it is necessary first to understand it.
Basic marxism
Introduction
This short study guide to Marxism is based on a guide published by the International Marxist Group in 1977 and has been reissued in response to the growing demand for Marxist educational material.
Basic marxism
Four Internationals
From the earliest days of modern industry the working class has been compelled to seek unity on an international level or suffer defeat in its elementary struggles with the capitalist class.
Archive
In this part of our site we have brought together historic texts from our collective past.
Marx’s Theory of Crises
Marx did not write a systematic treatise on capitalist crises. His major comments on the subject are spread around his major economic writings.
For the Fourth International, "the emancipation of the workers will be the work of the workers themselves" and "socialism will be international or it will not exist."
February 2004 - Report on the international situation
This report lies within the framework of the Resolutions and Reports of the 15th World Congress. It results from the discussions and the activity of the principal sections of the International, from our strong points but also from our limitations and our weaknesses.
February 2004 - FI International Committee meets
The International Committee of the Fourth International, elected at the World Congress in February 2003, had its first plenary meeting this February. This particularly well-attended meeting had a full agenda.
Links
An eclectic list of useful political and campaign organisations. ISG comrades work in many of these organisations. But this is by no means an exhaustive or definitive list - if you know of other useful websites you think we could promote let us know.
Fourth International Links
Across the world, on every continent, country by country, the Fourth International organises thousands of socialist militants in its sections. Find out more about the Fourth International and its sections direct from their websites.
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