Jack Conrad looks at MAB, its internal power struggles, its relationship to the British state and its encounters with the popular-frontist left. Last of three articles
Things do not look good for the Socialist Alliance, the coalition of socialist groups and activists which gained some momentum in 2000 and ran 98 candidates in the 2001 General Election. A National Council meeting in Sheffield on 18 October voted to rally to the proposal for a mushy "progressive bloc" in electoral politics announced by George Monbiot and Salma Yaqoob in the Guardian of 13 October 2003.