Paul Hampton reviews Imperialism and Resistance by John Rees (SWP pamphlet, 2006) John Rees is the new pope of the SWP, establishing himself since Tony Cliff’s death as the main driver of its politics. Yet his new book is remarkably thin: light on the substance of imperialism today, poor on arguments between socialists with absolutely monstrous political conclusions.
Paul Hampton reviews True Mission: Socialists and the Labor Party in the US by Eric Chester (Pluto 2004, £14.99) The debate about working class representation in the United States takes place in very different conditions from those we encounter in Britain. However, discussions on the US left over the last hundred years are very instructive both for our concerns in Britain and for American comrades today. True Mission discusses the history of third party efforts in the United States over the past 120 years.
A background document for the 2013 annual conference of the Alliance for Workers’ Liberty (26-27 October), by Paul Hampton and Martin Thomas. See below for a critical comment from Barry Finger 1. The AWL has pioneered a distinctive assessment of the development of global capitalism over recent decades, which underpins our orientation, concrete slogans and differences with much of the left.
To provide a more flexible lending approach to newly self-employed applicants, Newcastle Intermediaries has launched a new range of mortgages exclusively for them.
Newcastle Intermediaries, the broker business of Newcastle Building Society, is launching a range of mortgage products for self-employed clients with at least one year of financial accounts. To access the products, borrowers must have been trading for a maximum of two years and have at least one years-worth of