The Workers' International Network sends solidarity greetings to the workers and oppressed people of eSwatini in their current heroic struggle. We are deeply moved by the democratic struggle in eSwatini. This small country was a colony of Britain which reinforced monarchical rule before independence in 1964. Mswati III now personally manages the nations budget and lives like a … [Read more...]
Roger Silverman Speaks on the Crisis in the Labour Party
Roger Silverman speaks on the crisis in the Labour Party to an audience of nearly 200 at the conference of the Labour In Exile Network, 27th February 2021. … [Read more...]
WIN’s Tasks Today
I am posting here an edited version of the contribution I made to yesterday’s session of the Workers’ International Network conference. All comments are welcome! Roger Silverman * * * * This discussion today is of vital importance. At our previous sessions we have drawn attention to what is rapidly looking like a worldwide uprising taking place across all the continents. Every day we see … [Read more...]
WIN Newsletter 3: January 2021
The latest Newsletter from the Workers International Network, can be downloaded below … [Read more...]
Roger Silverman and Labour Party NEC Elections
Roger Silverman speaks about being a candidate for the Labour Party National Executive Committe elections … [Read more...]
WHY I AM STANDING FOR THE NEC
by Roger Silverman As an NEC member, I would campaign vigorously to restore the supremacy of party conference, uphold the democratic right of open selection of candidates for office, end arbitrary suspensions, and put forward radical socialist policies along the lines of the 2019 election manifesto. I was born into a Labour family and have been a lifelong party activist. My father was a … [Read more...]
Editorial for Covid-19 Crisis
We're living in extraordinary times. The flimsy tissue of capitalist “civilisation” stands exposed. For this pandemic is not an “act of God”; it is a crime of capitalism. Mercenary mass factory farming was long known to breed viral diseases which all too easily spread from animals to humans; and the crisis has exposed the effect of savage cuts in state expenditure – sabotage of the health service … [Read more...]
Lal Khan’s memory will be honoured
The untimely death of Lal Khan (Tanvir Gondal, as I knew him) has struck a bitter blow, not only to the ongoing struggle and future hopes of the working class in Pakistan and internationally, but also to me personally. Ever since we first met almost forty years ago, I counted him an ally and a comrade, and also a loyal friend. As often in Tanvir’s life, his personal circumstances were … [Read more...]
Editorial: On the Brink Spring 2020
This is no time for glib slogans. December’s election result is a serious setback. It clears the way for the most brutal Tory attacks yet seen on our living standards and our democratic rights, destroying the last remaining vestiges of the welfare state and plunging into despair a generation of youth desperate for the chance of a future. It also puts at risk the advances made in the last four … [Read more...]
New World Perspective Document Launched
Read 2020 VISION – the new World Perspectives document We’re living now in the early stages of what could reasonably be called the most disturbed period in human history… The roller coaster of history is shaking the world with stomach-churning lurches… On top of its rapidly developing environmental catastrophe and an exceptionally precarious economic outlook, the stability of the world is … [Read more...]