The left > Socialist Resistance
Socialist Organiser to Resisting Socialism
29 Oct 2026
From 1984 till his death, Alan Thornett was involved in almost every broad left front, coalition, alliance and party attempt. All quickly ended in failure, but lessons were never learnt. Mike Macnair concludes his two-part series
From militancy to the swamp
22 Oct 2026
Alan Thornett, June 15 1937-October 9 2026, was one of those genuine rank-and-file leaders, a cadre steeled in the class struggles of Cowley car assembly plant. Having broken with the CPGB, he threw his lot in with Gerry Healy’s increasingly crazy outfit. After that, one failed merger followed another till he found the ‘lovely waters’ of Mandelism. Mike Macnair begins a two-part article
Anti-imperialism of fools?
13 May 2021
Daniel Lazare savages the ‘solidarity with the Syrian people’ petition fronted by disorientated luminaries such as Noam Chomsky, George Monbiot and Ariel Dorfman
The great moving right show
09 Jan 2020
Characterising the Johnson government as ‘fascist’ provides some sections of the left with the excuse they need to collapse into broad frontism and class collaborationism, Mike Macnair presents his case
Total intellectual collapse
27 Apr 2017
Theresa May’s snap election exposes the political bankruptcy of the far left, argues Paul Demarty
How not to course-correct
10 Nov 2016
Socialist Resistance has finally shifted focus to Labour - but on a rotten basis, reckons Jim Grant
Populism, nationalism and racism
21 Apr 2016
Fred Leplat (ed), 'The far right in Europe', Resistance Books and International Institute for Research and Education, London 2015, pp334, £12
Swept along by the moment
16 Apr 2015
In the name of cuddling up to the Greens, Socialist Resistance warns about the dangers of the ‘ultra-left’. Paul Demarty objects
Doing politics the same
27 Nov 2014
Despite its commitment to ‘safe spaces’, Socialist Resistance’s view on the way we should organise is not ‘different’ at all, comments Mike Macnair