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 London Socialist Alliance - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The London Socialist Alliance (LSA) was an alliance of far-left socialist groups and individuals in London.
It stood candidates in the for the Greater London Assembly Election in 2000, but supported Ken Livingstone in the mayoral elections held at the same time.
It became part of the Socialist Alliance after the elections.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/London_Socialist_Alliance   (116 words)

  
 London Socialist Alliance
Shortly before the news that the LSA would not 'on principle confront the BNP at the ballot box for fear it might split the Labour vote' broke, controversies surrounding Red Actions affiliation to the LSA were already surfacing.
On October 12, the London Socialist Alliance contested a by-election in Hackneys’ Wick ward.
In the LSA case: ‘if you ignore the emotion, and look at the statistics’, calling it ‘not such a good result’ is to be frank, putting a gloss on it.
www.redaction.org /lsa/contents.html   (470 words)

  
 Spartacus Educational - Better Solutions to All Your Problems - Community Message Board at Skincareindia.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
The Clarion - A socialist weekly established by Robert Blatchford in 1890.
A socialist and was active in the Fabian Society.
William Hewins - Was first director of the London School of Economics and held the post until 1903 when he resigned to work for Joseph Chamberlain and his tariff reform campaign.
www.skincareindia.com /special/cat.asp?/Reference/Encyclopedias/Subject_Encyclopedias/Spartacus_Educational/Socialism_and_the_Labour_Movement   (4730 words)

  
 Weekly Worker 329 Thursday March 30 2000
Ian Page, Socialist Party councillor in Lewisham and a member of the SP's London executive, is standing as a Socialist Alliance candidate in Lewisham and Greenwich on May 4.
In 1998 I stood for re-election in Pepys ward for the Socialist Party and, although I was defeated, I won 38% of the vote.
The Socialist Party and other members of the Lewisham and Greenwich SA felt there was an opportunity for the LSA to support the campaign of tubeworkers breaking from the Labour Party.
www.cpgb.org.uk /worker/329/ianpage.html   (1614 words)

  
 Frontline 13 – Respect – an opportunity and a challenge for the left in England
Socialist Alliances were revived or established across the country and stood about 100 candidates in the 2001 Westminster election.
It was posed by the Socialist Alliance at its conference in May 2003, where it called for the creation of a political force that could represent the radicalisation expressed by the anti-war movement.
Concerning the SWP, it is difficult to disagree with Greg Tucker when he writes, concerning the experience of the Socialist Alliance, of “the reluctance of the Socialist Workers Party to invest in the Alliance any role which could be seen as an obstacle to their own interests” (15).
www.redflag.org.uk /frontline/13/13respectms.html   (4843 words)

  
 The Socialist Issue 185
Socialist Party members were also shouted down by SWP members when they tried to raise the idea of community candidates based on an anti-cuts programme for forthcoming council elections and by-elections.
While Socialist Party members and the London Socialist Alliance (LSA) will obviously contest elections, it would be wrong to insist that genuine activists from the tenants' associations and community groups need to stand under the LSA banner.
Members of the Democratic Socialist Movement, the CWI section in Nigeria, played an important role in the ten days of mass protest against fuel prices in June and were in the leadership in the general strike in Lagos, the capital.
www.socialistparty.org.uk /TheSocialistIssue185.htm   (4181 words)

  
 Socialist Alliance   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
The Socialist Alliance is a far left electoral alliance in England.
The Welsh Socialist Alliance is closely allied to the SA has separate origins.
The Socialist Alliance have been riven by mostly concerning the behaviour of the Socialist Party which is by far the largest participating in the Alliance and which many dominates it.
www.freeglossary.com /Socialist_Alliance   (556 words)

  
 Frontline 8 - Where is the SWP Going?
Writing in Socialist Worker in the run up to the 2001 general election, John Rees notes that "the break-up of Labour's base is at a very early stage, but it's happening", that "the success of the Socialist Alliances is part of a wider recovery in the movement.
The Socialist Alliance is of course not a united front in any commonly accepted sense of the term, it is a transitional political form on the road to a party, which may or may not come into existence.
If the Socialist Alliance was seen as a pre-party formation then it would take up campaigning on all sorts of issues and the SWP would function within it more and more as a current, easily the dominant one.
www.redflag.org.uk /frontline/eight/08swp.html   (4430 words)

  
 ENGLAND: Socialist Alliance strengthens   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Larsen views the alliance’s involvement in the elections as a thorough success, despite the fact that it received a lower percentage of the vote than was received by the London Socialist Alliance in the May 2000 city council elections.
The Socialist Alliance is a new beast, and many of the constituent left organisations don't have much experience in electoral work, or in working with each other.
This was the first of many protests Socialist Alliance activists organised during the election campaign, ranging from protests against sanctions on Iraq to joint-action with the Chinese community to oppose the scapegoating of Chinese restaurants operators for the disastrous spread of foot and mouth disease.
www.greenleft.org.au /back/2001/458/458p23.htm   (1521 words)

  
 Socialist Alliance | Workers' Liberty   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
The turn to a "new coalition": Socialist Alliance conference 10 May 2003.
The position outlined here was adopted by the Socialist Alliance in March 2001, but then overturned by a special conference in October 2002, in favour of a policy of campaigning for "no to the euro" in a referendum.
From a "front" to a living political force: motivation for proposals to the Socialist Alliance conference, December 2001, by Martin Thomas, Janine Booth and Pete Radcliff.
www.workersliberty.org /socialistalliance   (381 words)

  
 Socialist Party Australia - DSP dissolves and reemerges as the...DSP!   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
This reality is that the failure of Socialist Alliance has made the gathering of support amongst advanced workers and youth for a genuine new mass workers' party all the more difficult, especially when the Progressive Labour Party flop of the 1990s is included.
The Socialist Party (formerly Militant), a party that received the highest votes for socialists in the last WA and Victorian state elections, has decided to take observer status only within the Socialist Alliance.
Unfortunately the current plan for the organisation of the Socialist Alliance is too centralised and therefore under the domination of the ISO and DSP.
www.socialistpartyaustralia.org /modules.php?name=News&file=print&sid=309   (2309 words)

  
 Socialist Party Campaigns
Initiated by the Socialist Party, ISR is a democratic, broad organisation fighting for a socialist alternative to capitalism.
Socialist Students campaigns against tuition and top-up fees, for the restoration of a living grant and against the war and occupation of Iraq to name but a few.
The Socialist consistently reports on the developments in the trade union movement and battles for example against low pay and privatisation.
www.socialistparty.org.uk /CampaignsOurRecord.htm   (1104 words)

  
 Presseblick: Abschneiden der Linken bei englischer Kommunalwahl
Socialist Alliance candidates have received almost a quarter of the vote in
Socialist Alliance candidate Barry Conway in Newtown ward.
John Rees for the Socialist Alliance said 'this is a warning to New
www.kpoenet.at /presseblick/0278.html   (408 words)

  
 Greater London Authority Election Results
The Socialist Party was affiliated to the Socialist Alliance nationally but supported the Campaign Against Tube Privatisation list for the Greater London Assembly and was not therefore a voting member of the London Socialist Alliance (the London branch of the Socialist Alliance).
Though endorsed by the London Socialist Alliance and receiving considerable support from their members, he was not considered as a full LSA candidate.
Brown was the candidate of the Residents' Association of London.
www.election.demon.co.uk /gla.html   (913 words)

  
 Socialist Alliance - Freepedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
The Socialist Alliance have been riven by feuds, mostly concerning the behaviour of the Socialist Workers Party, which is by far the largest group participating in the Alliance, and which many feel dominates it.
In 2003 the SWP, supported by the ISG, led the SA into an alliance with George Galloway and other figures involved in the Stop the War Coalition to form the RESPECT Unity Coalition.
A sizeable minority of the SA objected to the way this decision was carried out and argued that the SWP were using their block vote to push their line.
en.freepedia.org /Socialist_Alliance.html   (360 words)

  
 Mark Steel -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Mark Steel is a (The people of Great Britain) British (A political advocate of socialism) socialist (A journalist who writes editorials) columnist and (A professional performer who tells jokes and performs comical acts) comedian.
He has been a member of the (additional info and facts about Socialist Workers Party) Socialist Workers Party since his late teens.
Steel was a typical disaffected teenager growing up in the UK in the late (The decade from 1970 to 1979) 1970s.
www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/M/Ma/Mark_Steel.htm   (842 words)

  
 M-TH: Third Socialist Councillor elected in Britain   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Socialist Alternative website: http://socialistalternative.net To join the Socialist Alternative mailing list go to http://socialist.listbot.com News from our sister party, the Socialist Party, the British Section of the Committee for a Workers' International (CWI): STOP PRESS: A THIRD SP COUNCILLOR ELECTED IN COVENTRY!
Standing under the title Socialist Alternative (because the electoral registration office still prevents the SP from having the democratic right to stand under its own banner), but nevertheless with its programme, the comrade won 1182 votes compared to New Labour's 1071.
The London top-up list vote results include the following (one constituency is still to counted): The LSA received 1.85%, and the Campaign against Tube Privatisation 1.12%.
www.mail-archive.com /marxism-thaxis%40buo319b.econ.utah.edu/msg02039.html   (355 words)

  
 Bomis: The Society/Politics/Parties/UK/Socialist and Communist Parties ring
Site is a report of an internal inquiry regarding a violent incident on the Bloody Sunday march, 30th January 1999.
Campaigns for a socialist society based on meeting the needs of all.
London District Committee of the Communist Party of Britain
www.bomis.com /rings/Msocialist-and-communist-parties-society   (187 words)

  
 For a democratic and effective Socialist Alliance
The Socialist Alliance has grown and developed through our collective experience of the general election.
The Socialist Alliance should neither be bureaucratically controlled from above nor limited to an ineffective non-aggression pact.
The Socialist Alliance should strive for maximum unity in action through debate at the highest level involving a broad, wide-ranging and inclusive discussion.
www.cpgb.org.uk /sa/index.html   (351 words)

  
 New book: Classical Marxism - Socialist theory and the Second International   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
The purpose of this book is to address a recent claim that socialist theory can be renewed on the basis of 'classical Marxism', the socialist politics of the Socialist International in the period between the death of Karl Marx and the Russian Revolution of 1917.
The alliance between socialist left and right was could be kept together by pushing the moment of socialist revolution ever further into the distance.
A life-long socialist, his main interests are in the comparative study of ideology and his books include Red Shirts and Black, Fascism: Theory and Practice and Marx on Globalisation.
www.londonsocialisthistorians.org /messageboard/forum0.pl/noframes/read/204   (277 words)

  
 ipedia.com: Mark Steel Article   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Mark Steel is a British socialist and comedian.
He has been a member of the Socialist Workers Party since his late teens.
In 2000 he took part in the London Assembly elections on behalf of the London Socialist Alliance (a pre-cursor to the Socialist Alliance) in the Croydon & Sutton constituency, he received 1,823 votes (1.5 per cent of the vote).
www.ipedia.com /mark_steel.html   (479 words)

  
 London Socialist Alliance - Term Explanation on IndexSuche.Com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
London Socialist Alliance - Term Explanation on IndexSuche.Com
(LSA) was an alliance of far-left socialist groups and individuals in London.
It became part of the Socialist_Alliance after the elections.
www.indexsuche.com /London_Socialist_Alliance.html   (116 words)

  
 Labour Party victory in London elections
In the Greater London Assemby elections on 4 May 2000, Labour showed its continued suppport from Southwark and Lambeth residents by winning the local seat.
London Socialist Alliance 6231, Humanist 1261, Communist League 536
Christian Peoples Alliance 4237, London Socialist Alliance 3305, Peter Tatchell 3241, British National Party 2412, UK Independence Party 1700, Campaign against Tube Privatisation 1264, Socialist Labour Party 1123, Pro-Motorist Small Shop 705, Natural Law Party 507, Communist Party of Britain 486
www.btinternet.com /~se16/labour/gla.htm   (144 words)

  
 Socialist Alliances - the AWL's activity   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Check out the "Independent Socialist Alliance" platform at www.independentsocialistalliance.net.
Click here to see a list of all recent articles on this site relating to the Socialist Alliance
Socialist Alliance to be sunk in pink-green bloc?
archive.workersliberty.org /activity/fractions/socall/index.html   (272 words)

  
 34index   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
LSA - a reply to Workers' Power - Where next for the LSA after May elections?
A few extracts from the platform speeches at the LSA’s 1,200-strong April 13 rally.
London Socialist Alliance steps up campaign - We've got a city to win!
www.labournet.org.uk /so/34index.html   (158 words)

  
 The Early Days of a Better Nation
This goes to MI6 - the British and Americans share everything - and then it goes to MI6’s customers: the Prime Minister, the defence secretary, the home secretary, the foreign secretary, and other key ministers and officials.
Daniel Coysh has an interview/profile of me up at the Morning Star, Britain's only socialist daily (in fact, the only English-language socialist daily paper).
The World Socialist Web Site are not my kind of socialists, but their daily analyses and reports have been sharp.
kenmacleod.blogspot.com   (3753 words)

  
 31index   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Greater London Authority elections - Dig deep to build London's left challenge to Blairism!
London Socialist Alliance - A socialist alternative to Blair's New Labour in London
Marxism versus campism - a reply to Socialist Action
www.labournet.org.uk /so/31index.html   (87 words)

  
 CONTENTS 239   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Editorial, London Mayor, The Vote, Livingstone's Campaign, New Labour's Failures, London Socialist Alliance, Housing, Spanish Elections, Welfare to Work, Between the lines, The Walrus
Socialist Review is the monthly magazine of the Socialist Workers Party
Printed by Larkham P&P Ltd(TU), PO Box 82, London E3 3LH.
pubs.socialistreviewindex.org.uk /sr239/contents.htm   (161 words)

  
 World History :: Encyclopedia Index -- Lo   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Local Councils in Northern Ireland by community make-up
Locomotives of the London and North Eastern Railway
Locomotives of the London and North Western Railway
www.worldhistory.com /wiki/Lo.htm   (124 words)

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