Happy birthday! SII turns one today
It all began with a discussion, which then turned into a manifesto, before becoming a website.
The enemy of my enemy - notes on not having really shit politics
For what seems like forever, the Julian Assange saga has been everywhere. On TV, in the papers, on Facebook and Twitter, it's been impossible to avoid it and all the horrific misogyny and rape apologism that comes with it. Underlying all of which is a cliché - at that a fallacious one - which defines pretty much all of the worst in leftist politics: the enemy of my enemy is my friend.
The history of the federalist IWMA - Vadim Damier
After Zimmerwald - Radical Chains
The modern left, bolshevism included, are all children of Zimmerwald. It was at the Zimmerwald conference in 1915 that the revolutionary left thrashed out the issues of its relation to the centrist and reformist wings of the movement and its orientation towards national self-determination... Lenin may have been well in advance of anyone in his call for revolutionary defeatism, but... Lenin's defence of the right of nations to self-determination was no more than a reiteration of orthodoxy and... in their assessment of the real consequences of support for nationalism the European left proved to be more perspicacious than Lenin.
The perplexities of the Middle Eastern conflict - Communicating Vessels
Essay looking at the concepts of nation and national identity, especially in relation to the Israel/Palestine conflict.
We won't pay for the bosses' war - No War But The Class War
Leaflet from 1991, looking at the logic behind the impending Gulf War, and its meaning for the working class, both in the UK and internationally.










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