Last week I set out the differences between a revolutionary socialist party and a mainstream socialist party.
With the world economy in freefall, it is not such a great leap of imagination to consider what the collapse of society might look like today.
The British media were filled last week with weasel words of peace from politicians following a spate of armed attacks on British troops and the police in Northern Ireland.
A wave of anger against segregated housing lay at the heart of the civil rights movement that erupted in Northern Ireland at the end of the 1960s.
Violence wasn’t introduced into Northern Ireland by the "terrorists".
As the recession deepens capitalists face a quandary – how are they going to make money?
You’ve decided that the capitalist system breeds poverty, oppression and war. You know that this system has to be overthrown to secure real change. You agree that mass movements are the engines that drive history. What next?
Twenty five years ago Britain was convulsed by a major battle that had massive implications for the future.
Ian Mitchell – Silverwood miner Arthur Scargill was head and shoulders above any other trade union leader at the time or since.
My abiding memory of the strike is the coming together of my community. It brought families together to fight for something that was just.
Your book, GB84, is forensic in its detail about the Miners’ Strike, yet you would have been quite young when the strike was happening. What made you take such an interest in it?
John Sturrock was Socialist Worker’s main photographer during the 1984-5 Miners’ Strike.
