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Left-wing publications in the UK

Pilgrim said:
It's essentially the voice of the SWP, largely to the exclusion of much else.

It isn't all bad, but it usually reads like a party political broadcast.
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Mmmm...they have lots of articles by non-SWPers though, don't they?
 
mattkidd12 said:
Mmmm...they have lots of articles by non-SWPers though, don't they?
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Really? I wouldn't have thought they'd have had many articles from people non-SWP are differing significantly from their party line, not that that's really an issue, every organisation does it. It's just that the SWP's got really shit politics.

:)
 
They will carry material from favoured reformists, greens, and anti-capitalists.

But they never carry any material that mounts an attack from the left, or socialists prepared to counter their current line.
 
I think that in spite of the usual venom, Socialist Worker is equal to any other in terms of weekly up to date coverage of workers struggles.

A number of the other publications are also quite clearly very firmly tied to some party or political tendency. People are being fairly disingenuous frankly.

The reason i started reading it is because at the tail end of the miners strike it was the only paper saying that the strike was in BIG trouble, and could identify reasons why and a way forward. Been addicted ever since.

A number of other papers at the time were vitriolic about how 'pessimistic' we were, and then denied that the miners had been defeated.
 
Some of the coverage in Socialist Worker isn't bad, especially the facts and figures (usually about workers' salaries, how much bosses earn etc), and it was from SW that I first learnt Robert Mugabe initially was favoured by the West after he gained power.
 
jimmer said:
Really? I wouldn't have thought they'd have had many articles from people non-SWP are differing significantly from their party line, not that that's really an issue, every organisation does it. It's just that the SWP's got really shit politics.

:)
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They have non-SWP voices from the 'movements'.
 
MatthewEdwards said:
I haven't read it much, and it still seems worth a perusal, but I'm not sure about "New Statesman" in the John Kampfner era. Post-Peter Wilby it seems to have contracted the epidemic of rightwards shift.
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That's when I stopped reading it. It used to be good. Now it's all Blairite and 'reasonable.'
 
Roadkill said:
"Originally Posted by MatthewEdwards
I haven't read it much, and it still seems worth a perusal, but I'm not sure about "New Statesman" in the John Kampfner era. Post-Peter Wilby it seems to have contracted the epidemic of rightwards shift."

That's when I stopped reading it. It used to be good. Now it's all Blairite and 'reasonable.'
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The few times I read it I thought it was a rag. There was no informative content.. just a load of stereotyped liberal punditry. If that's you want it's cheaper to get the Guardian.
 
There is RETRO,the paper for an independent revolutionary socialist grouping for the over 55s , available at the usual outlets.

The external faction of Workers Power have a theoretical quarterly publication called 'Putsch' which has some good diagrams and formulas in, and there is their e-bulletin 'The Revolution Betrothed' which reports on the struggle form the front line.
 
Chuck Wilson said:
There is RETRO,the paper for an independent revolutionary socialist grouping for the over 55s , available at the usual outlets.

The external faction of Workers Power have a theoretical quarterly publication called 'Putsch' which has some good diagrams and formulas in, and there is their e-bulletin 'The Revolution Betrothed' which reports on the struggle form the front line.
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:D :D
 
treelover said:
Red Pepper magazine, an independent diverse, green left, feminist anti-capitalist (sometimes)good read with in depth articles, news and views...

http://www.redpepper.org.uk/
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I've just subscribed to Red Pepper - £20 for the year and you get three back issues too. Not had chance to actually read any of them yet of course :rolleyes:
 
OK, here are the websites that I would recommend personally. Most of them, I must confess, are British based - but internationalist in outlook! I really hope you (and anyone else who decides to look) find them useful. Not all of them I agree with politically - but I do find them useful reading matter (and they save me a fuck of a lot of money/storage space) I personally have archives of stuff dating back to the 19th century. Thank god for the internet - my floorboards would have had it by now. NB Remember - these are the recommendations of an SWP hack; so most of you won’t even bother looking I expect….

Anti War -
http://www.stopwar.org.uk/

Broader Left Formations
http://www.respectcoalition.org/
http://www.scottishsocialistparty.org/

Other leftish journals/websites of interest -
http://www.revolutionary-history.co.uk/
http://www.redpepper.org.uk/
http://www.marxists.org/
http://www.zmag.org/intro_to_znet.htm
http://www.ukwatch.net/
http://www.resistancemp3.lpi.org.uk/
http://www.marxists.de/index.htm
http://www.bookmarks.uk.com/cgi/store/bookmark.cgi
http://historybooksuk.blogspot.com/
http://www.newleftreview.org/
http://www.dkrenton.co.uk/
http://www.planetmagazine.org.uk/html/splash.htm


Socialist worker and related -
http://www.swp.org.uk/
http://www.socialistworker.co.uk/
http://www.socialistreview.org.uk/
http://www.isj.org.uk/
http://www.istendency.net/
http://www.swp.org.uk/archive.php
 
www.labourstart.org is great, it's mainly a repository of links to articles elsewhere, because of that it manages to have some of the most comprehensive news of labour struggles and union news around the world from a wide variety of sources.

www.libcom.org/news (disclaimer: I help run it. but we're only two months into a major relaunch and we're doing our best to make it as good as we can!)

www.corporatewatch.org - usually very high quality, and often some in-depth articles covering things you won't see elsewhere - different from, and better than, the American one.

www.ukwatch.org - don't use this that much, but it has a fairly broad cross-section of analysis from various groups and individuals
 
MatthewEdwards said:
How about green politics as well?

I've dabbled here and there with "New Internationalist" and heard good things about "The Apple". Any ideas?
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The Ecologist... owned by multi-millionaire neo-fascist Zach Goldsmith.
 
MatthewEdwards said:
Thanks for all of that.

Is the Morning Star the only left-wing daily newspaper available?



Medialens has some good critiques on the media - http://www.medialens.org/
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NEWS LINE is still going, if you consider the Pro Healey Wing of the WRP a left wing organisation.

I thought that they had died a death, but they are still around. Doing much work around Gate Gourmet.

The best working class, grass root paper THE SOCIALIST.
Much stuff about the Health Service and Public Sector.

SOCIALIST WORKER is good for anti war war stuff and makes good toilet paper.
:eek:
 
Nigel said:
NEWS LINE is still going, if you consider the Pro Healey Wing of the WRP a left wing organisation.

I thought that they had died a death, but they are still around. Doing much work around Gate Gourmet.

The best working class, grass root paper THE SOCIALIST.
Much stuff about the Health Service and Public Sector.

SOCIALIST WORKER is good for anti war war stuff and makes good toilet paper.
:eek:
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The Socialist. A bit thin ,could be much much better.
Most of the left wing press I check out on the net.
Marxist.com, CPGB, Socialist etc.
 
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