Defend the NHS Martin Ralph The NHS management and government want nurses in England to accept 4% for last year and 5% for this coming year. It won’t stop staff leaving and will make waiting lists longer. This is a pay cut as RPI is 13.8% and food inflation is 18%, which is on top […]
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International Socialist League In 2022 sexism, violence and abuse continues to rise and blight and control the lives of women without any possibility of going away. And the reality of Black women’s experiences means that they experience oppression, abuse and violence simultaneously through both sexism and racism. Since the pandemic there has been a huge […]
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The tensions that occurred throughout the 18th and 19th remain issues in Stockport today. Stockport is an area of wealth with pockets and areas of poverty – a town where rich and poor co-exist. Today in Stockport while the homeless sleep on the “beach” under Merseyway, a mile away “four-by-fours” disembark pupils at the town’s […]
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The ISL thanks the International Workers League fourth international leaders and members and the contacts and sympathisers who knew Peter for wonderful messages of condolences from three continents. Some comrades only met Peter on zoom because of Covid, as the ISL, during Covid had regular national meetings with our comrades living in five cities. […]
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John Pearson, Secretary, Stockport Fights Austerity – No To Cuts I first met Peter when we were founder members of the Stockport branch of the Socialist Alliance in 2003. I became Secretary and Peter became Treasurer. It soon became apparent that Peter was a highly committed internationalist, revolutionary socialist. In our branch’s political discussions, his […]
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Peter Windeler speaking on behalf of Stockport Trades Council 27 January 2022 As you may be aware, Trades Councils bring together trade unions in particular localities to fight and defend workers’ rights and working conditions. Although I am now a representative on behalf of teachers, in the 1980s I was a representative of bank workers […]
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There are many tributes to Comrade Peter Windeler from the International Socialist League and his union and activist friends With great sadness and pride, I write Peter Windeler’s obituary. We send our condolences to Peter’s wife, son, grandchildren, his two sisters and brother. By Martin Ralph – International Socialist League It was shocking to receive […]
Read MoreFor a unified Ukraine free from Russian oppression! Ukraine out from the clutches of the USA, NATO and the European Union from! Statement by IWL-FI After signing his decree recognising the self-styled republics of Lugansk and Donetsk as independent states, alien to Ukraine, Putin deploys his troops. The massacre of the Ukrainian people is underway. […]
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December 12, 2021 The experience of the Paris Commune, the first instance of proletarian revolution, brought Marx and Engels to a transformative conclusion regarding their understanding of the State. Unlike prior revolutionary processes, the conquest of political power by the revolutionary proletariat should not result in the adoption and application of the state apparatus, but […]
Read MoreBy Martín Hernández Originally published in Spanish in the magazine Correo Internacional no. 17, May 2017, 44-47 Translated from in Spanish by Dolores Underwood from this article When the masses overthrew Stalinist regimes, the bourgeoisie made a simplistic and crude analysis: “the masses defeated socialism, and capitalism has proven itself superior.” However, not even Stalinism was enough to […]
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