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  Socialist Organization Today | Solidarity
Socialist Organization Today made the case for an alternative to the abandonment of socialist organization and politics and the “vanguardist” pretensions of much of the revolutionary left—building an organization with clear socialist politics that was committed to rebuilding the organizations of working class and popular resistance.
Similarly, revolutionary socialist parties that are real "vanguard" organizations arise when a substantial number of militants, in large movement organizations, come together to transcend the potential parochialism of their single-issue group and develop a more comprehensive strategy for anti-capitalist struggle.
Solidarity's attempt to build a socialist organization that is both revolutionary and non-sectarian, that has no pretense of being a party or "pre-party" is based on our understanding of the actual historical development of the workers' and popular vanguards in the United States and Europe in the twentieth century.
www.solidarity-us.org /sot   (9342 words)

  
  Socialist Alliance - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Socialist Alliance was a left-wing electoral alliance in England in existence between 1992 and 2005.
The Socialist Alliance was named and expanded in 1999, when other Trotskyist groups including the Socialist Workers Party and Workers Power joined, as did the formerly separate London Socialist Alliance.
The Socialist Alliance was been riven by feuds, mostly concerning the behaviour of the Socialist Workers Party, which was by far the largest group participating in the Alliance, and which many felt dominated it.
www.wikipedia.org /wiki/Socialist_Alliance   (415 words)

  
 Socialist realist - Hutchinson encyclopedia article about Socialist realist   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-05)
Socialist realism became the official doctrine in the USSR in 1932 when Stalin's repressive government issued a decree ‘On the Reconstruction of Literary and Art Organizations’.
Among the other countries to which socialist realism spread was China, where it became the norm in painting in the 1950s.
Socialist realism is not to be confused with social realism, art that realistically depicts subjects of social concern.
encyclopedia.farlex.com /Socialist+realist   (368 words)

  
 Socialist Solidarity Network - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Socialist Solidarity Network is a grouping of socialists in the United Kingdom many of whom are ex-members of the Socialist Party of England and Wales.
They support the Socialist Alliance in England and the Scottish Socialist Party in Scotland.
The SSN is led by Phil Hearse, an individual member of the USFI, and former editor of Socialist Outlook.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Socialist_Solidarity_Network   (106 words)

  
 SSN - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-05)
SSN is an acronym for 'Social Security Number', used by Social Security (United States).
SSN is also the hull classification symbol used by the United States Navy for an attack submarine that is propelled by nuclear energy, such as the Los Angeles-class attack submarines of attack submarines.
SSN can also stand for Socialist Solidarity Network, a Trotskyist group in the UK.
www.encyclopedia-online.info /SSN   (147 words)

  
 SSN - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
SSN (US Navy), the hull classification symbol used by the United States Navy for an attack submarine that is propelled by nuclear energy, such as the Los Angeles-class of attack submarines.
SSN (book), a 1996 novel by Tom Clancy describing the operations of a U.S. Navy attack submarine
Socialist Solidarity Network, a Trotskyist group in the UK.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/SSN   (175 words)

  
 Solidarity and struggle around the world
At last month’s Socialist Summer School 2001 conference in Chicago, the leaders of struggles across the globe--from Bolivia and Brazil to South Africa and Zimbabwe, from Palestine to Mexico, from Greece to the heart of the beast, the U.S.--came together for an extraordinary panel discussion on the fight ahead.
Solidarity and unity were able to overcome the fear that people had felt up until then, and on the 10th of April, we beat Bechtel.
In another, we worked in solidarity with metalworkers in South Africa at Volkswagen--who went on strike at first against the undemocratic practices of the leadership of their union and then began to fight against the company and against the government of South Africa, that didn’t guarantee their right to struggle.
www.socialistworker.org /2001/372/372_08_SolidarityAnd.shtml   (2699 words)

  
 solidarity
Solidarity (in Polish - Solidarność) is a Polish trade union federation founded in September 1980, originally led by Lech Walesa.
But by the late 1980s, Solidarity was sufficiently strong to frustrate Jaruzelski's attempts at reform, and nationwide strikes in 1988 forced the government to open a dialogue with Solidarity.
Solidarity is also the name of the newspaper published by the Alliance for Workers Liberty in the UK.
www.fact-library.com /solidarity.html   (679 words)

  
 Station Information - Socialist Alliance
The Socialist Alliance is a left wing electoral alliance in England and Wales.
The alliance grew out of the United Socialists, a short-lived electoral grouping including the Socialist Party of England and Wales and the Alliance for Workers Liberty.
The Socialist Alliance was founded in the late 1990s, when other trotskyist groups including the Socialist Workers Party and Workers Power joined.
www.stationinformation.com /encyclopedia/s/so/socialist_alliance.html   (190 words)

  
 Socialist Alliance -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-05)
The Socialist Alliance was a (additional info and facts about left-wing) left-wing (additional info and facts about electoral alliance) electoral alliance in (A division of the United Kingdom) England in existence between 1992 and 2005.
The Socialist Alliance was expanded in 1999, when other (Radicals who support Trotsky's theory that socialism must be established throughout the world by continuing revolution) Trotskyist groups including the (additional info and facts about Socialist Workers Party) Socialist Workers Party and (additional info and facts about Workers Power) Workers Power joined.
A sizeable minority of the SA objected to the way this decision was carried out and argued that the SWP were using their (A vote proportional in magnitude to the number of people that a delegate represents) block vote to push their line.
www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/S/So/Socialist_Alliance.htm   (559 words)

  
 SOLIDARITY Magazine   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-05)
The unions should break this 'solidarity' with the British government and the US rulers, help to build the anti-war movement, campaign against any attack on civil rights, defend minorities from attacks, and step up the struggle against a government which is a servant of big business at home and abroad.
Rather than striving for international working class solidarity and an alliance with those who organise against the injustices which capitalism visits upon downtrodden millions, on the environment on which we depend, their aim is the ‘success’ of British capitalism in the international pig trough known as ‘free trade’.
For socialists in the unions their transformation into fighting organisations which represent the interests of workers here and work to build international solidarity, requires a fundamental break from an outlook which ties them to ‘our own’ bosses.
www.movementsforsocialism.com /solidarity_magazine.htm   (10590 words)

  
 Socialist Resistance
The formation of broad socialist parties able to intervene in elections and beyond, and posing a credible alternative, is crucial to stopping the advance of the far right.
The fight for the Socialist Alliance to become a broad socialist party when the organisational and political conditions for this are ready.
Socialist internationalism, expressed through deepening and consolidating links with like-minded socialists and movements in Europe and beyond; and also in the fight against the witch-hunt of asylum seekers, and support for Globalise Resistance and other movements against neo-liberal globalisation, and the Stop the War Coalition.
www.socialistresistance.net /launch.htm   (1048 words)

  
 Feminism at Work | Solidarity
It means, for example, confronting the ladder shaker but also building a network of fellow activists who simultaneously confront the ladder shaker and make it impossible for other ladder shakers to do their thing without answering to the collective.
What we as socialist feminists believe is that it is possible, necessary, to live a life in which you are not constantly struggling to meet the standards of oppressive gender roles, and that individual struggle must not interfere with our collective project of building working class power.
Socialist feminism is also an approach to organizing because it understands the role gender plays in developing the class conscious of workers as well as understanding the personal as political.
www.solidarity-us.org /node/456   (3330 words)

  
 Socialist Alliance - The World Wide Beat - The World by Region - SearchBeat.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-05)
North Derbyshire Socialist Alliance - Standing a prospective MP in Chesterfield and also a number of councillors in the Chesterfield and Bolsover areas of North Derbyshire.
Nottingham Socialist Alliance - Nottingham Socialist Alliance is contesting the Nottingham East seat in the general election - candidate is Pete Radcliff.
Socialist Solidarity Network - Made up of socialists from various backgrounds, advocates socialist renewal and regroupment on a non-sectarian basis.
www.searchbeat.com /Regional/Europe/UnitedKingdom/SocietyandCulture/Politics/Parties/MinorParties/Socialists/SocialistAlliance   (733 words)

  
 The Socialist Student issue 2
Socialists demand the immediate end to the Israeli occupation of Palestinian territories, and the creation of two states respecting the national aspirations of both Palestinians and Israelis, whilst recognising that a just solution along these lines will not be possible under capitalism.
Two socialist states would be able to work together as part of a socialist confederation of the Middle East, allowing people to live where they want while respecting the desires of Israelis and Palestinians to have their ‘own’ states.
Socialists do not encourage the tactic of a boycott, and counterpoise the united action of workers and youth from both Israel and Palestine to boycotts imposed from outside that may divide the working class.
www.socialiststudents.org.uk /studsoc/issue2/14.htm   (3420 words)

  
 SI Committee on Local Authorities
Thus, an active policy in the city is not the exclusive responsibility of the municipal government, but a task to be shared by those citizens who wish to participate in the shaping of a humane and fair city founded on work.
In both meetings, the socialist mayors recognised that it was "an international socialist aim to promote local associations" (Bologna), and "improvements in aids to development by means of decentralised cooperation and international solidarity" (Fez).
The creation of such solidarity between socialist cities would be an excellent example to stimulate the broader initiative which was once proposed by Habitat-UN and a group of cities with the same intention of generating solidarity.
www.socialistinternational.org /6Meetings/Locauth/March00/Rosario-e.html   (2452 words)

  
 Planners Network: Publications
Too many socialists, especially those with roots in organized labor, have failed to see racism as fundamental to the birth and expansion of US capitalism and fully entwined with class oppression.
In socialist cities, housing, public transportation, health care and education were offered at virtually no cost to the users.
Elimination of the capitalist housing crisis gave way to a socialist housing crisis where government planners simply did not divert enough resources away from production, which itself became inefficient, and when they did they were unable to meet the rapidly changing needs of individuals and households with serially-produced industrial housing.
www.plannersnetwork.org /publications/2003_summer/7th.htm   (2493 words)

  
 Red Action Discussion Page
Our union networks are slowly taking shape, reported comrade Hoskisson, and he urged that the SA ensure that these bodies build their infrastructure in the next period.
The attempt to oust Mark Serwotka, a Socialist Alliance supporter, as the democratically elected general secretary of the PCSU has brought the need for the left to organise in the unions into sharp relief.
The Socialist Solidarity Network of John Bulaitis, Phil Hearse, Mandy Baker and Sarah Parker have not proffered one red cent to the national coffers, though they do have a member on the executive.
www.redaction.org /wwwboard/msgs5/5953.HTM   (1893 words)

  
 Should the French left have voted Chirac? | Workers' Liberty   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-05)
John Bulaitis (a supporter of the “Socialist Solidarity Network”, now living in France) and Martin Thomas (Alliance for Workers’ Liberty) debate whether socialists should have supported a vote for Chirac in the second round of the French Presidential election.
The Socialist (26 April) claims that “a strong showing of ballot papers rejecting both Chirac and Le Pen would be a warning of opposition to the capitalist policies which both advocate”.
One implication of revolutionary socialists voting Chirac in the second round was to condemn themselves for having dared to stand in the first round.
www.workersliberty.org /node/view/96   (2418 words)

  
 Editorial 2 - Why we are joining the Resistance   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-05)
The growth of the Socialist Alliance is part of the same process that had led to the creation of the Left Block in Portugal, or the Red Green Alliance in Denmark or Rifondazione Comunista in Italy or the Scottish Socialist Party.
These new broad socialist parties are absolutely essential tools in fighting for an alternative to the murderous system in which we live.
The ISG, the SSN, and the many individual socialists who are coming forward to sponsor the new paper agree on this perspective.
www.labournet.org.uk /so/57edit2.htm   (685 words)

  
 [Marxism] Socialist Action & Solidarity in the trade unions   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-05)
Solidarity is much bigger than Socialist Action, and there aren't many workplaces or unions where we both have members working side by side to compare our different apporaches, but the few places where we do I have to say that I haven't been impressed with Solidarity.
Anyway, my goal isn't to nitpick about what some Solidarity members said to an SA member back in 19 whenever, I just want to express that it isn't always the hated "vangaurdists" who are the sectarian ones, and I don't think Solidarity's labor work should be put on an unassailable pedistal.
I don't mean any disrespect to the Solidarity members who have spent a life time fighting the mob in the Teamsters, often at considerable personal risk, but it's out of respect that I say what I say.
lists.econ.utah.edu /pipermail/marxism/2005-January/019828.html   (1193 words)

  
 Socialist Party News (06/03/03) - IOver Ten Thousand School Students Protest Against War
A Socialist Youth member led 200 students in a march to the barred exit where they held a protest against the war and against their imprisonment in the school.
For example, the mother of two students in a school in Holywood, a few miles from Belfast, phoned YAW on the morning of the walkout to say her daughters were leading a walkout and were going to march to the centre of the town at lunchtime.
YAW and Socialist Youth are preparing for mass walkouts from the schools on Day X to build on the successful action on March 5th.
www.socialistparty.net /pub/news/walkoutsnorth.htm   (1330 words)

  
 Network for Working-Class Representation/ Independent Socialist Alliance
At the Socialist Alliance conference on 10 May 2003 the majority adopted a perspective of "relaunching the Socialist Alliance as part of a coalition of broader left wing forces" (as Socialist Worker put it).
We will fight for the socialists to unite in a new socialist party, with ample rights of tendency on the model of Rifondazione Comunista or the Scottish Socialist Party, which can become the leading political force in the fight for a re-born mass workers' party, and within that re-born mass workers' party once formed.
We resolve to argue inside the Socialist Alliance against any bloc with the CPB for the Euro-elections, and in favour of a bloc with forces such as Lutte Ouvriere and the LCR in France, and Rifondazione Comunista in Italy.
www.dlandmj.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk   (1199 words)

  
 Socialist Alliance   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-05)
These were formed by the Socialist Party of England and Wales, Alliance for Workers' Liberty, IndependentLabour Network and independent socialists.
The Welsh Socialist Alliance is closely allied to the SA buthas separate origins.
The Socialist Alliance have been riven by feuds, mostly concerning the behaviour of the Socialist Workers Party, which is byfar the largest group participating in the Alliance, and which many feel dominates it.
www.therfcc.org /socialist-alliance-172697.html   (355 words)

  
 RED GROUPS OF THE UK
Socialist Campaign Group: The SCG is the chief organizational base of the democratic socialist wing of the Labour Party.
Socialist Party of Great Britain: Founded in 1904, the Socialist Party of GB is one of the oldest political parties in the UK, even older than the Labour Party.
Socialist Party: The SP was originally founded by a former member of the Trotskyist Revolutionary Communist Party, Ted Grant, in the 1970’s around the publication Militant.
reds.linefeed.org /ukgroups.html   (3213 words)

  
 Socialist Solidarity Network - About US
The Socialist Solidarity Network (SSN) are socialists from various backgrounds, including former members of the Socialist Party (CWI).
But the votes polled by the Scottish Socialist Party and the Socialist Alliances in England and Wales show that already there is an important minority prepared to support a socialist alternative.
The Socialist Solidarity Network believes that the central task for socialists today is to organise, strengthen and build that support.
www.socialistsolidarity.com /info.htm   (385 words)

  
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This text was drafted by Socialist Democracy’s London branch for distribution as a leaflet at a June 1999 conference on left unity and socialist regroupment.
We need a real left that is based on action and which builds up a stronger active solidarity – not just in the campaigns that the far left initiates and animates, but also in giving space for campaigns that are involving thousands of people finding a way to fight capitalism.
The relaunch of the network of Socialist Alliances in London, on August 1 1999, may be pivotal in London.
members.lycos.co.uk /socialist_dem/scozia.htm   (1025 words)

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