Endnotes

Contents

INTRODUCTION

1.        See: Liverpool, The City that Dared to Fight

2.        Trotsky, Trotskyism and Trotskyites, The Briefing Room, BBC Radio 4, September 2016

3.        Into the Red Nineties: Decade of Revolution, Militant 974, 19 January 1990

4.        See: The Rise of Militant and Militant’s Real History for a full explanation socialistparty.org.uk

1. END OF THE TORY GOVERNMENT

1.        Editorial Comment, Militant 1249, 20 October 1995

2.        Leveson Inquiry: John Major Reveals Murdoch’s EU  Demand, BBC website, 12 June 2012

3.        Join our Fight in ’95, Militant 1210, 6 January 1995

4.        This Far and No Further, Militant 1214, 3 February 1995

5.        Anger, Anxiety & Dissent, Militant 1223, 31 March 1995

6.        The Day the Tories Dived, Militant 1229, 12 May 1995

7. The Tories’ Civil War, Militant 1236, 30 June 1995

2. BLAIR’S COUNTER-REVOLUTION IN THE LABOUR PARTY

1.        Guardian, 1 January 1996

2.        1996: The year the Tories died?, Militant 1258, 12 January 1996

3.        A Journey, Tony Blair, p.xlix, Random House, 2011

4.        Ibid, p.xlix

5.        Ibid, p13

6.        Ibid, p26

7.        Ibid, p36

8.        Ibid, pp75-76

9.        Ibid, p43

10.      Ibid, p84

11.      Quoted in Labour after Clause Four, Militant 1228, 5 May 1995

12.      Ibid

13.      Ibid

14.      Clause Four: Opposition to Blair grows, Militant 1211, 13 January 1995

15.      Backstage at the Rolling Rose Rally, Militant 1227, 28 April 1995

16.      Sunday Times, 23 April 1995

17.      A Meeting of Minds with Maggie?, Militant 1227, 28 April 1995

18.      Blair Widens the Gap between Labour and the Unions, Militant 1238, 14 July 1995

19.      Militant 35, March 1968

20.      Blair, op cit, p85

21.      Winning Hearts and Minds, Militant 1221, 17 March 1995

22.      Blair’s ‘Modernisers’ Turn Back the Clock, Militant 1228, 5 May 1995

23.      Blair, op cit, p87

3. BLAIR ENCOURAGES THE TORIES

1.        Labour off Tracks on Rail Privatisation, Militant 1212, 20 January 1995

2.        Blair, op cit, p94

3.        Ibid, p96

4.        Ibid, p97

5.        Dear Mr Blair, Militant 1239, 21 July 1995

6.        Blair, op cit, p46

7.        Free At Last: Diaries 1991-2001, Tony Benn, Random House, 2009, p274

8.        Ibid, p272

9.        Ibid, p288

10.      See The Rise of Militant

11.      Tony Blair’s Unfinished Counter-Revolution, Militant 1244, 15 September 1995

4. TIME FOR A NEW PARTY

1.        Time for a Socialist Labour Party?, Militant 1252, 10 November 1995

2.        Can the Labour Party be Reclaimed?, Socialism Today 68, September 2002

3.        Labour after Clause Four, Militant 1228, 5 May 1995

4.        Time for a Socialist Labour Party?

5.        All quotes from Future Strategy for the Left, A Discussion Paper, Arthur Scargill, 4 November 1995

6.        Virtual Unreality: Where has Blair taken Labour? Militant 1248, 13 October 1995

7.        Time for a Socialist Labour Party?

8.        Militant’s Real History

9.        Time for a Socialist Labour Party?

10.      Scargill Calls for Socialist Alternative, Militant 1253, 17 November 1995

11.      Scargill, op cit

12.      Editorial Comment, Militant 1253, 17 November 1995

13.      The British General Election of 1992, D Butler and D Kavanagh, MacMillan Press, October 1992

14.      Scargill, op cit

15.      Editorial Comment, Militant 1253

16.      Quoted in Ibid

17.      Morning Star, quoted in Is the Time Right for a Socialist Party?, Militant 1256, 8 December 1995

18.      What Now for the Left? Militant 1254, 24 November 1995

19.      SLP Threatened by Exclusive Approach, Militant 1257, 15 December 1995

20.      Ibid

5. NEW PARTY, NEW FORMS OF ORGANISATION

1.        Success for New Party Depends on Openness and Democracy, Militant 1257, 15 December 1995 

2.        Editorial Comment, Militant 1262, 9 February 1996

3.        A Workers’ MP on a Worker’s Wage, Militant 1262, 9 February 1996

4.        SLP Conference: Socialism Endorsed but Policies Confused, Militant 1275, 10 May 1996

5.        Scargill Says No Alliances, Militant 1273, 26 April 1996

6.        Scargill Rejects Appeal for Unity, Militant 1280, 14 June 1996

7.        Letter to Arthur Scargill, Militant 1304, 13 December 1996

6. MILITANT LABOUR CAMPAIGNS

1.        Police Take Blame for Riot, Militant 1212, 20 January 1995

2.        Labour Councillor Expelled for Supporting Socialism, Militant 1232, 2 June 1995

3.        Campaign Puts Militant Labour on the Map, Militant 1219, 3 March 1995

4.        Quoted in Blowing the Whistle on BNP Bullies, Militant 1219, 3 March 1995

5.        Southampton Militant bring Council Back to Earth, Militant 1243, 8 September 1995

6.        Results Show Support for Socialism, Militant 1275, 10 May 1996

7.        Labour Haunted by the Ghost of Nellist, Coventry Evening Telegraph, 21 December 1994, quoted in ‘Rottweiler’ Dave Dogs Labour, Militant 1215, 3 February 1995

8.        Militant Labour Conference 96, Militant 1260, 26 January 1996

7. WORKERS FORMULATE POLICIES

1.        The Worldwide Struggle for Socialism, Militant 1261, 2 February 1996

2.        Show Racism the Red Card, Militant 1269, 29 March 1996

3.        Really Radical?, Socialism Today 8, May 1996

4.        Stephen Lawrence Inquiry: Corruption and Racism, Socialist 71, 10 July 1998

8. TRADE UNION WORK IN THE MID-1990s

1.        Health Workers Vote for Action: Strike Now! Militant 1231, 26 May 1995

2.        Reject this Rotten Deal: Railworkers Talk to the Militant, Militant 1240, 28 July 1995

3.        A Small Taste of Things to Come, Militant 1237, 7 July 1995

4.        A Great Vote for the Left, Militant 1252, 10 November 1995

9. FRAGMENTATION OF THE TORIES

1.        Tories: Is the Party Over?, Socialism Today 13, November 1996

2.        Ibid

3.        Who Needs Socialism? We Do, Militant 1292, 20 September 1996

4.        The Changing Faces of Labour, Militant 1292, 20 September 1996

5.        What Will Happen… in New Labour Britain?, Socialism Today 17, April 1997

6.        Virtual Unreality: Where has Blair taken Labour?, Militant 1248, 13 October 1995

7.        What Will Happen… in New Labour Britain? Ibid

8.        New Labour or New Liberals?, Militant 1292, 20 September 1996

9.        Hidden Agendas, John Pilger, p538

10.      The State They’re In, Militant 1277, 24 May 1996

11.      Job Seekers’ Allowance: Who Benefits?, Militant 1290, 6 September 1996

10. THE NATIONAL QUESTION IN SCOTLAND AND WALES

1.        John Major, New Year’s Message 1995

2.        Tories Play the Union Card, Militant 1213, 20 January 1995

3.        See The Rise of Militant

4.        Tories Routed: 10,000 Votes for SML, Scottish Militant 1224, 7 April 1995

5.        Scotland: The National Question and the Struggle for Socialism, Militant 1242, 25 August 1995

6.        Will Britain Break Up?, The Socialist 3, 21 February 1997

7.        Ian Bell, The Scotsman, quoted in Scottish Socialist Alliance Launched, Militant 1263, 16 February 1996

8.        Tory Wreckers Boost Support for Devolution, Militant 1217, 17 February 1995

11. OUR NAME CHANGE DEBATE

1.        Statement on the Name of the Organisation, Members Bulletin 17, 19 May 1996

2.        The Third International after Lenin, Leon Trotsky

3.        Statement on the Name of the Organisation

4.        Ibid

5.        Ibid

6.        For the Socialist Party Proposal, Members Bulletin Name Change Debate III, September 1996

7.        Socialists Make the Headlines, Socialist 2, 14 February 1997

12.      GENERAL ELECTION FINALLY CALLED

1.        Give Tories the Red Card, Socialist 7, 21 March 1997

2.        FCB opinion poll, 12 February 1997, quoted in Vote Socialist, Socialist 7, 21 March 1997

3.        Vote Socialist, Ibid

4.        Who Owns Your MP?, Socialist 8, 28 March 1997

5.        Sleazy Tories, Socialist 8, 28 March 1997

6.        Media Bias, Socialist 8, 28 March 1997

7.        The Rich: Kick ’Em into Orbit, Socialist 10, 11 April 1997

8.        Coventry’s Socialist Agenda, Socialist 10, 11 April 1997

9.        Widespread Support for Socialist Ideas, Socialist 10, 11 April 1997

10.      Coventry: New Labour, New Tories, Socialist 11, 18 April 1997

11.      Why You Should Vote Socialist, Socialist 12, 25 April 1997

12.      Observer, quoted in Why You Should Vote Socialist

13.      Tories Wiped Out, Socialist 13, 2 May 1997

14.      May Day Massacre for Tories, Socialist 14, 9 May 1997

15.      Tories Wiped Out, Ibid

16.      Tory Collapse, Socialist 13, 2 May 1997

17.      Radical Change is Not On Offer, Socialist 13, 2 May 1997 

18. Standing for Socialism, Socialist 13, 2 May 1997

13.      LIVERPOOL DOCKERS STRIKE

1.        Liverpool: Dockers Defiant to the End, Socialism Today 26, March 1998

2.        Editorial Comment, Militant 1250, 27 October 1995

3.        Somebody has to Make a Stand, Militant 1250, 27 October 1995

4.        No Going Back to the Dark Ages, Militant 1255, 24 November 1995

5.        Fighting for a Future, Militant 1260, 26 January 1996

6.        Speech to the right-wing HR Nicholls Society, Melbourne Australia, 15 September 1990, quoted in Abolition of the Docks Labour Scheme: Straight from the Horse’s Mouth, Socialist 16, 23 May 1997

7.        TGWU Conference: Dockers Achieve Breakthrough, Socialist 23, 11 July 1997

8.        Union Ranks Secure Dockers’ Vote, Socialist 24, 18 July 1997

9.        Liverpool: Dockers Defiant to the End

10.      United in Struggle, Militant 1293, 27 September 1996

14.      THE DISPUTE WITH THE MERSEYSIDE COMRADES

1.        On Democratic Centralism and the Regime, Leon Trotsky, 1937

2.        Democratic Centralism, Peter Taaffe, Published in Militant Labour Members Bulletin No.16, 18 March 1996

3.        The Political Evolution of the Militant/Socialist Party in the 1990s: Merseyside’s View, p1 para2

4.        New Technology and Globalisation: Can a Capitalist Slump be Avoided?, Peter Taaffe 1999, p2

5.        Ibid p4

6.        Ibid pp4-5

7.        Ibid p5

8.        Ibid p5

9.        In Defence of Marxism, Leon Trotsky, p92, Pioneer Publishers

10.      The Rise of Militant, pp447-448

11.      Addendum on Some Points of Theory, Paul Storey, 1992, p4

12.      New Technology and Globalisation, p8

13.      Ibid, p8

14.      One World Ready or Not, William Greider, quoted in New Technology and Globalisation

15.      New Technology and Globalisation, p15

16.      Ibid, p16

17.      Militant Labour Members Bulletin 25, December 1997

18.      New Technology and Globalisation, p38

19.      Leon Trotsky’s Living Legacy, Socialism Today 201, October 2016

15.      NEW LABOUR IN GOVERNMENT

1.        Blair’s First Month, Socialism Today 19, June 1997

2.        Last Man Standing, Jack Straw, pp504-506

3.        Free At Last, Tony Benn, p408

4.        The Independent, 25 April 1997, quoted in Tony & Bill, Socialism Today, 19 June 1997

5.        Ibid, p402

6.        Ibid, p403

7.        Ibid, p417

8.        Ibid, p421

9.        Blair, op cit, pp115-116

10.      Did You Vote for This? Socialist 20, 20 June 1997

11.      Brown’s Sleight of Hand, Socialist 23, 11 July 1997

12.      Labour Privatises the NHS, Socialist 27, 8 August 1997

16.      THE DEATH OF DIANA

1.        Diana Outpouring: Virtual Protest?, Socialism Today 22, October 1997

2.        The English Constitution, Walter Bagehot, 1867 edition p58

3.        Ibid pp85-86

4.        Diana Outpouring: Virtual Protest?

5.        Observer, 7 September 1997

6.        Diana Outpouring: Virtual Protest?

17.      FIGHTING TUITION FEES

1.        Labour and Liberals Coalition in the Air?, Socialist 32, 26 September 1997

2.        Last Man Standing, p227

3.        Benn, op cit, p450

4.        Ibid, p454

5.        Let Down and Disgusted but… Fighting Back, Socialist 41, 28 November 1997

6.        The late Hugo Young, Guardian, quoted in Labour’s ‘Planet Happiness’! Socialist 35, 10 October 1997

7.        Labour’s ‘Planet Happiness’!

8.        The Blair-Ashdown ‘Lovefest’, Socialist 33, 3 October 1997

9.        Benn op cit p450

10.      A Show of Strength, Socialist 54, 13 March 1998

18.      SECOND YEAR OF GOVERNMENT

1.        Our Socialist Budget: For Need Not Profit, Socialist 54, 13 March 1998

2.        Benn, op cit, p469

3.        Ibid, p466

4.        Ibid, p469

5. Ibid, pp482-483

6.        Quoted in Blair’s Fatal Weakness, Socialist 40, 21 November 1997

7.        Friends in Low Places, Socialist 40, 21 November 1997

8.        New Labour New Sleaze, Socialist 72, 17 July 1998

9.        Who’s Left in Labour?, Socialist 80, 25 September 1998

19.      THE RIGHT REVOLTS AND THE COUNTRYSIDE ALLIANCE

1.        Rural Reaction, Socialism Today 27, April 1998

2.        Daily Telegraph, 28 February 1998

3.        Ibid

4.        Rural Reaction

5.        Who’s Left in Labour?, Socialist 80, 25 September 1998

6.        Rover: Jobs on the Line, Socialist 85, 30 October 1998

7.        Exposed! Slave Labour Bosses, Socialist 73, 24 July 1998

8.        Jobs Gloom Deepens: No Return to the 1930s, Socialist 85, 30 October 1998

9.        My Life, Leon Trotsky, Chapter 45

10.      The Third Way Meets Reality, Socialism Today 33, November 1998 

20. JACK STRAW AND GENERAL PINOCHET

1.        Last Man Standing, pp258-259

2.        A Criminal Claiming Innocence, Socialist 92, 18 February 1998

3.        Last Man Standing, p253 4. Ibid, pp261-262

5.        Ibid, pp265

6.        Ibid, pp264

7.        Ibid, pp267

21. LIVINGSTONE AND THE LEFT

1.        Observer, 28 December 1997

2.        Labour Left: Heading for a Split?, Socialism Today 25, February 1998

3.        Observer, op cit

4.        Quoted in Labour Left: Heading for a Split?

5.        Ibid

6.        Steve Richards interview with Ken Livingstone, New Statesman, 10 October 1997

7.        Champagne Socialists or Campaign Socialists?, Socialist 96, 29 January 1999

8.        Ken’s Cheesy Remarks: The Worker ‘Drones’ Reply, Socialist 96, 29 January 1999

9.        Giving Londoners a Choice, Socialist 97, 29 February 1999

10.      Labour Left: Heading for a Split?, Socialism Today 25, February 1998

22.      CORRUPTION — BOSSES “WORTH FIGHTING FOR”

1.        The Mandelson Affair, Socialism Today 35, February 1999

2.        Ibid

3.        Ibid

4.        Financial Times, 11 January 1999

5.        Quoted in The Mandelson Affair

6.        New Labour, Rover and the Market, Socialist 98, 12 February 1999

23.      BRITISH ECONOMY

1.        Stop the Jobs Slaughter, Socialist 82, 9 October 1998

2.        Turn Anger into Action, Socialist 83, 16 October 1998

3.        Why Not Bail Out Jobs?, Socialist 83, 16 October 1998

4.        Privatisation: The Route to disaster, Socialist 131, 15 October 1999

5.        Free At Last! Tony Benn, p554

6.        Ibid, p558

7.        Ibid, p559

8.        Ibid, p561 9. Ibid, p568-9

24.      A NEW MILLENNIUM

1.        Observer, 2 January 2000

2.        21st Century Socialism, Socialist 141, 14 January 2000

3.        New Century, Old Attacks, Socialist 141, 14 January 2000

4.        21st Century Socialism

5.        Labour’s Troubles Are only just Beginning, Socialist 143, 28 January 2000

6.        Kinnock’s Poodle Bites Blair, Socialist 145, 11 February 2000

7.        Free At Last, p610

25.      AN AVALANCHE OF REDUNDANCIES

1.        Nationalise Rover, Socialist 151, 31 March 2000

2.        There is an Alternative, Socialist 152, 7 April 2000 

3.        100,000 March with Rover Workers, Socialist 152, 7 April 2000,

4.        Take Over Rover, Socialist 156, 5 May 2000

5.        Labour’s Wobbly Week, Socialist 162, 16 June 2000

6.        Anger at Corus Job Cuts, Socialist 163, 23 June 2000

7.        Peugeot Workers ‘Pushed too Far’: No Choice but to Fight Back, Socialist, 169, 4 August 2000

8.        Socialist Party Support Welcomed, Socialist, 169, 4 August 2000

9.        Listen to the Membership, Socialist 169, 4 August 2000

10.      What About the Workers Mr Blair?, Socialist 169, 4 August 2000

26.      TANKER REVOLT: SEVEN DAYS THAT SHOOK BLAIR

1.        A Turning Point in Britain, Socialist 174, 22 September 2000

2.        Observer, 17 September 2000

3.        A Turning Point in Britain

4.        Blair’s Empty Promises, Socialist 175, 29 September 2000

5.        A Turning Point in Britain

6.        Seven Days that Shook Blair, Socialist 174, 22 September 2000

7.        Financial Times, 14 September 2000

8.        New Labour in Crisis, Socialist 174, 22 September 2000

9.        Profits Put Safety Last, Socialist 179, 27 October 2000

10.      Brown Keeps his Faith in Capitalism, Socialist 182, 17 November 2000

11.      Teflon Tony Comes Unstuck, Socialist 186, 15 December 2000

27.      OPPOSITION FROM THE TRADE UNIONS

1.        Not Just People who Talk a Good Fight, Socialist 17, 30 May 1997

2.        Financial Times, 7 July 1997

3.        Trade Unions in the Epoch of Neoliberalism, Socialism Today 21, September 1997

28.      OUR WORK IN UNISON

1.        Delegates Sceptical of Labour’s Plans, Socialist 19, 13 June 1997

2.        Unison Leaders Wage War on the Left, Socialist 44, 19 December 1997

3.        Defend Simon Cousins, Socialist 37, 31 October 1997

4.        This is the Real World Mr Blair, Socialist 19, 12 September 1997

29.      MORE BATTLES IN THE UNIONS

1.        CPSA Conference: Right’s Election a Setback for Members, Socialist 16, 23 May 1997

2.        Teachers Walk Out over Pay Cuts, Socialist 65, 29 May 1998

3.        Union Rights Now! Socialist 64, 22 May 1998

4.        Union Rights: Labour Gives in to Big Business, Socialist 65, 29 May 1998

5.        Teachers’ Pay: Fight for the 10%, Socialist 80, 25 September 1998

30.      CONTRASTING METHODS OF WORK

1.        Leading the Left’s Challenge in Unison, Socialist 130, 8 October 1999

2.        Build Unity to Stop Hackney Cuts, Socialist 185, 8 December 2000 

3.        Solid Strike against Cuts Threat, Socialist 191, 2 February 2001

4.        Workers Increase the Pressure, Socialist 200, 6 April 2001

5.        Strikers Demand Health and Safety, Socialist 89, 27 November 1998

6.        Tube Strike Shuts Down London, Socialist 200, 6 April 2001

7.        Workers Show their Strength: Get Organised: Strike Back! Socialist 192, 9 February 2001

8.        Stop Privatising our Schools! Socialist 160, 2 June 2000

9.        Article pictured in Teachers Refuse to Cross the Performance Pay Threshold, Socialist 156, 5 May 2000

10.      Railworkers Betrayed by Labour, Socialist 162, 16 June 2000

31.      SCOTLAND, WALES AND THE DEVOLUTION BILLS

1.        See The Rise of Militant

2.        Socialists Campaign for a Double Yes Vote, Socialist 19, 13 June 1997

3.        Scotland’s Turning Point, Socialist 29, 5 September 1997

4.        For a Welsh Parliament with Real Powers, Socialist 30, 12 September 1997

5.        Wales: the Curtain Opens, Socialist 32, 26 September 1997

6.        Quoted in Blair’s Welsh Poodle Scrapes Through, Socialist 100, 26 February 1999

7.        Welsh Socialist Challenge Launched, Socialist 100, 26 February 1999

32.      DIFFERENCES OPEN IN SCOTLAND

1.        How Can Capitalism be Overthrown? Socialism Today 54, March 2001

2.        From the Herald, quoted in Scotland’s Historic Election, Socialism Today 39, June 1999

3.        Tommy Goes to Holyrood, Socialist 112, 21 May 1999

4.        No Confidence in Any of Them, Socialist 146, 18 February 2000

5.        The Scottish Socialist Party: A Statement from the Socialist Party Executive Committee, Socialist 88, 20 November 1998

6.        Scottish Socialist Party Founding Conference, Socialist 100, 26 February 1999

33.      POLITICAL DIFFERENCES AND DEFECTIONS

1.        Scotland: ISM Leaders Desert CWI, Socialist 189, 19 January 2001

2.        Scotland: An Exchange of Letters, Socialist 190, 26 January 2001

3.        Scottish Socialists Weigh Up Ambitious Plans, Socialist 193, 16 February 2001

34.      STANDING IN ELECTIONS

1.        You Talk My Kind of Language, Socialist 27, 8 August 1997

2.        An Outrageous Ban, Socialist 102, 12 March 1999

3.        Independent, 8 December 1998

4.        Quoted in What the Papers Said, Socialist 111, 14 May 1999

35.      KEN LIVINGSTONE AGAIN

1.        If Voting Changed Anything, They’d Abolish It, Ken Livingstone, HarperCollins 1987, p259 

2. See Liverpool: the City that Dared to Fight and The Rise of Militant

3. Ibid, pp.313-314

4.        Can Ken Deliver? Socialism Today 46, April 2000

5.        Quoted in Why the GLC Caved In, Militant 741, 22 March 1985

6.        Evening Standard, 19 October 1999

7.        Independent, 7 March 2000

8.        Guardian, 8 March 2000

9.        Quoted in Ken Livingstone and a New Workers’ Party, Socialism Today 46, April 2000

10.      Ken Livingstone and a New Workers Party

11.      Independent on Sunday, 7 May 2000

12.      Livingstone after the Elections, Socialism Today 48, June 2000

13.      Evening Standard, quoted in Livingstone Fails End of Year Report, Socialist 215, 20 July 2001

36.      THE SOCIALIST ALLIANCES

1.        Socialist Alliances Build for the Future, Socialist 78, 11 September 1998

2.        Preparing a Socialist Alternative, Socialist 91, 11 December 1998

3.        The Choice for Socialists in the London Elections, Socialist 153, 14 April 2000

37.      2001: ECONOMIC STORM CLOUDS

1.        2001: A Year of Workers’ Reawakening, Socialist 187, 5 January 2001

2.        Stop the Bosses’ Jobs Slaughter, Socialist 189, 19 January 2001

3.        2001: A Year of Workers’ Reawakening

4.        Car Workers: Turn Pressure into Strike Action, Socialist 190, 26 January 2001

5.        When Flunkies Fall Out, Socialist 191, 2 February 2001

6.        Servants of Big Business, Socialist 191, 2 February 2001

7.        The Case for Socialist Nationalisation, Socialist 192, 9 February 2001

8.        It’s their Crisis: Make the Bosses Pay, Socialist 200, 6 April 2001

9.        A Cautious but Cunning Budget, Guardian, 9 March 2001

10.      After the Drought, a Few Drops of Rain, Socialist 197, 16 March 2001

11.      Quoted in After the Drought, a Few Drops of Rain

12.      Well, Did Things get Better? Guardian, 20 February 2001

38.      2001 GENERAL ELECTION

1.        Plain Sailing for Blair? Socialist 195, 2 March 2001

2.        The Opposition to New Labour, Socialist Review 250, March 2001

3.        Socialists and the Election, Socialism Today 55, April 2001

4.        Resolution to Labour Left Briefing 2001 AGM

5.        Britain’s Growing Discontent, Socialism Today 57, June 2001

6.        Independent, 9 June 2001

7.        New Labour Turns Away Liverpool Voters, Socialist 210, 15 June 2001

8.        Scotland’s Election, Socialism Today 57, June 2001

9.        All quoted in Asylum: Tories and Labour Play the Race Card, Socialist 208, 1 June 2001

10.      An Alternative to the Lesser of Two Evils, Socialist 205, 11 May 2001

11.      Independent, quoted in Britain’s Growing Discontent, Socialism Today 57, June 2001

12.      Britain’s Growing Discontent

13.      Both quoted in Labour’s ‘Just in Time’ Election, Socialist 209, 9 June 2001

14.      Both quoted in New Labour’s ‘Ten Year’ Plan, Socialist 206, 18 May 2001

39.      THE CWI’S HISTORY AND WORK IN IRELAND

1.        Crisis in Northern Ireland, Militant International Review, Autumn 1970

2.        A Framework for What? Militant 1220, 10 March 1995

3.        Workers’ Unity the Key to Peace, Militant 1220, 10 March 1995

4.        No Return to the Troubles, Militant 1263, 16 February 1996

5.        The Loyalist Psyche, review in Socialism Today 40, July/August 1999

6.        Should Marches be Banned? Militant 1285, 19 July 1997

7.        Joe Higgins and Clare Daly: Jailed over the Bin Tax, Socialist 317, 4 October 2003

8.        Joe and Clare after their Release from Mountjoy Prison, Socialist 320, 25 October 2003

9.        All that’s left? A Profile of Joe Higgins TD, Sunday Business Post, 17 April 2005

10.      Bosses Low Pay Racket Exposed: Socialist Party Action Uncovers Massive Wage Fraud, Socialist 387, 7 April 2005

40.      THE EFFECTS OF SETBACKS

1.        Asia’s Financial Whirlwind, Socialist 29, 5 September 1997

2.        Who Lost Russia? Socialism Today 32, October 1998

3.        Time, 8 January 2001

4.        Economist, 23 August 2001

41.      THE DOTCOM BUBBLE BURSTS

1.        World Recession Looms, Socialist 221, 14 September 2001

2.        World Economy: Deepest Downturn since the 1930s? Socialist 229, 9 November 2001

3.        See our documents on the Tendency of the Rate of Profit to Fall

4.        2002: Capitalist Crisis – Workers’ Struggles, Socialist 235, 4 January 2002

5.        Enron’s Collapse: Workers Feel Pain of Layoffs and Added Sting of Betrayal, New York Times, 21 January 2002

6.        Daily Mirror, 29 June 2002

7.        Bye Bye American Pie, Observer, 30 June 2002

8.        Behind the Financial Scandals, Socialist 263, 19 July 2002

9.        The Naked Kleptocracy that Leads Britain’s Private Sector, Guardian, 8 December 2004

10.      Fighting a Failing System, Socialist 375, 8 January 2005

11.      Guardian, 26 October 2004

12.      Cabinet Secretary under Thatcher, Major and, briefly, Blair

13.      Fighting a Failing System 

14.      It’s the economy, dammit, Observer, 24 October 2004

15.      Profits Soar, Wages Fall in the Globalised Economy, Socialist 389, 21-27 April 2005

42.      ANTI-CAPITALIST MOVEMENTS

1.        One World, Ready Or Not: The Manic Logic of Global Capitalism, William Greider, Penguin Books, 1998

2.        Activists Trigger Security Scare, Guardian, 30 November 1999

3.        Real Battle for Seattle, Observer, 4 December 1999

4.        The Return of Karl Marx, New Yorker, October 20, 1997

5.        Bosses Threaten all Protesters, Socialist 157, 12 May 2000

6.        Ex-Soldier Admits Defacing Statue of Churchill, Guardian, 8 May 2000

7.        Australian Herald, 28 August 2000

8.        Australian Anti-Capitalist Action, Socialism Today 51, October 2000

9.        World Social Forum, Socialist 194, 23 February 2001

10.      Association pour la Taxation des Transactions financières et pour l’Action Citoyenne (Association for the Taxation of financial Transactions and Citizens Action)

11.      The politics of anti-capitalism, Socialism Today 56, May 2001

12.      Independent, 23 April 2001

13.      Global Capitalism: A System Under Siege, Socialist 204, 4 May 2001

14.      Hackney Workers Strike on May Day, Socialist 204, 4 May 2001

15.      Storm in Quebec, Socialism Today 57, June 2001

16.      Gothenburg’s Police State, Socialist 211, 22 June 2001

17.      After Gothenburg… AntiCapitalist Resistance Continues, Socialist 211, 22 June 2001

18.      ATTAC! Socialism Today 58, July/August 2001

19.      Soros: May Day Protesters do have a Point, Observer 6 May 2001

20.      Genoa and the Future of the Anti-Capitalist Movement, Socialism Today 59, September 2001

21.      Summit for Nothing, Socialist 216, 27 July 2001

22.      The Aftermath of Genoa, Socialist 217, 10 August 2001

43.      SOCIALIST ALLIANCE SPLITS

1.        The Future of the Socialist Alliance, Socialist 217, 10 August 2001

2.        What Future for the Socialist Alliance? Socialist 229, 9 November 2001

3.        A Critical Conference for the Socialist Alliance, Socialist 230, 16 November 2001

4.        From Judy Beishon’s own notes

5.        Liz Davies, 21 October 2002

6.        Open Letter from Socialist Party Wales to the Welsh Socialist Alliance National Council, October 2002

44.      AL QA’IDA AND 9/11

1.        Attacks on the US – Aftershocks Rock the Globe, Socialist 222, 21 September 2001

2.        Stratfor (strategic forecasters) website, 11 September 2001 

3.        Attacks on the US – Aftershocks Rock the Globe

4.        September 11 – Political and Economic Aftershocks, a Socialist Analysis, CWI statement, 14 September 2001

5.        Ibid

6.        American Muslims Fear Reprisals amid Calls for Swift Revenge, Guardian, 12 September, 2001

7.        September 11, 2001, Washington Post, 12 September 2001

8.        Attack System of Terrorism, International Herald Tribune, 13 September 2001

9.        September 11 – Political and Economic Aftershocks, a Socialist Analysis

10.      A Journey: My Political Life, Tony Blair, p342

11.      Ibid, p347

12.      Ibid, p355

13.      Ibid, p358

14.      Ibid, p351

15.      Ibid, p358

45. WAR IN AFGHANISTAN

1.        A Journey, Blair p360

2.        Ibid, p361

3.        Ibid, p364

4.        Ibid, p362

5.        Ibid, p369

6.        Military Action No Solution, Socialist 222, 21 September 2001

7.        Iraq: Clinton’s Deadly Endgame, Socialist 88, 20 November 1998

8.        Afghanistan, Islam and the Revolutionary Left, socialistworld. net

9.        War is No Solution, Socialist 224, 5 October 2001, Just who are our Allies in Afghanistan? Independent, 2 October 2001

11.      Mirror, 18 September, 2001

12.      A New World for the Last Superpower, Socialism Today 60, October 2001

13.      Images of Past Wars may not Fit Present Foe, Washington Post, 16 September 2001

14.      Better to be Silent than Out of Step when Bush Bangs the Drum, Independent, 18 September 2001

15.      Fear and Loathing, Guardian, 19 September 2001

16.      A New World for the Last Superpower

17.      New York Times service, quoted in International Herald Tribune, 14 September 2001

18.      Quoted in A New World for the Last Superpower

19.      Financial Times, 18 September 2001

20.      The Clash of Fundamentalisms: Crusades, Jihads and Modernity, Tariq Ali, Verso 2003, p197

21.      A New World for the Last Superpower

46.      PREPARATIONS FOR THE IRAQ INVASION

1.        War Disturbs the Most Dangerous Political Tectonic Plate in the World, Independent, 7 October 2001

2.        Hansard, 10 April 2002

3.        Blair, op cit, p463

4.        Mail on Sunday, 21 October 2001

5.        Building a Mass Anti-War Movement, Socialist 283, 17 January 2003

6.        Last Man Standing: Memoirs of a Political Survivor, Jack Straw, Pan MacMillan 2012, p361

7.        War on Iraq: The Pressures Grow, Socialist 283, 17 January 2003

8.        Benn, Diaries 2001-2007; More Time for Politics, p8

9.        Ibid, p10

10.      Ibid, p12

11.      US Begins Secret Talks to Secure Iraq’s Oilfields, Guardian, 23 January 2003

12.      Hans Blix: From the Hell of Iraq, Hope for an Era of Peace, Independent on Sunday, 16 February 2014

13.      Build solidarity action with the firefighters, Socialist 285, 31 January 2003

47.      MASSIVE WORLDWIDE RESISTANCE TO IRAQ WAR

1.        Global Resistance to the War – Massive Protest in Bush’s Backyard. Socialist 284, 24 January 2003

2.        Daily Mirror, 6 February 2003

3.        Anti-War Demonstration, February 15 2003: The Day that Made History, Socialist 288, 21 February 2003

4.        Socialism on the March, Socialist 288, 21 February 2003

5.        Cheers for System Change, Socialist 288, 21 February 2003

6.        The World Turned Upside Down, Socialist 288, 21 February 2003

7.        A Top General’s Thoughts on Iraq, Christian Science Monitor, 5 March 2003

8.        Financial Times, 25 March 2003

9.        Step Up Action against this Bloody War, Socialist 293, 28 March 2003

10.      The Rising of the Youth, Socialist 293, 28 March 2003

48.      AFTER IRAQ, WHO NEXT?

1.        War and the ‘New World Disorder’, Socialist 293, 28 March 2003

2.        The Chaotic Aftermath of War, Socialist 296, 19 April 2003

3.        Ibid

4.        FE lecturers: Vote ‘No’ to Miserable Pay Offer, Socialist 291, 14 March 2003

5.        Paul Mackney Replies, Socialist 293, 28 March 2003

6.        Hansard, 30 April 2003

7.        Kelly Death Deepens Blair’s Crisis, Socialist 320, 26 July 2003

8.        Hutton Inquiry: a Can of Worms for Blair, Socialist 23 August 2003

9.        Saddam’s Capture – Not the ‘Beginning of the End’ in Iraq, Socialist 328, 20 December 2003

49.      THE WAR AT HOME

1.        War on the Home Front, Socialism Today 61, November 2001

2.        Guardian, 11 October 2001

3.        ‘A Stimulating Debate, Economist, 25 October 2001

4.        War on the Home Front

5.        Strike Back at School Sell-Offs, Socialist 213, 6 July 2001

6.        Workers Strike as Labour does the Dirty Deed, Socialist 216, 27 July 2001

7.        Anti-Privatisation Conference: ‘We’re Determined to Fight Back and Win’, Socialist 232, 30 November 2001 

8.        Railtrack – New Labour’s U-Turn, Socialist 225, 12 October 2001

9.        Son of Railtrack: Nationalisation – But not as we Know it, Socialist 227, 26 October 2001

10.      Why Labour Climbed Down on Tuition Fees, Socialist 225, 26 October 2001

11.      Solidarity and a Bold Leadership Needed, Socialist 239, 1 February 2002

12.      Militant Tendency Shows the Way, Socialist 240, 8 February 2002

50.      OPPOSITION ON ALL FRONTS

1.        Coventry Socialist Party Councillor making a Difference, Socialist 295, 12 April 2003

2.        Coventry Socialists Launch Election Drive, Socialist 245, 15 March 2002

3.        Politics is Dull and Boring, Socialist 249, 12 April 2002

4.        Winning Benefits for Local People, Socialist 250, 19 April 2002

5.        Step up the Fight for Socialism, Socialist 253, 10 May 2002

6.        Vote for Real Change: Vote Socialist, Socialist 323, 15 November 2003

7.        A New Movement Emerging, Socialism Today 73, March 2003

51.      GEORGE GALLOWAY AND RESPECT

1.        A New Movement Emerging, Socialism Today 73, March 2003

2.        A New Alternative to New Labour?, Socialist 290, 7 March 2003

3.        Where Now After Galloway’s Expulsion? Socialist 321, 1 November 2003

4.        Apparently it’s all my Fault…, Socialist 319, 18 October 2003

5.        Respect Unity Coalition – What we Think, Socialist 330, 17 January 2004

6.        Socialism and Left Unity, Peter Taaffe, p46

7.        I’m Not the Only One, George Galloway, Allen Lane, 2004, p41

8.        Ibid, p40

9. Ibid, pp135-137

10. Respect and the June Elections, Socialist 353, 26 June 2004

52.      EUROPEAN UNION AND THE EURO

1.        The Europe of the Workers, Militant 1303, 6 December 1996

2.        The CWI’s Belgian comrades became Linkse Socialistiche Partij in 2001. The Francophone comrades were organised as Mouvement pour une Alternative Socialiste (MAS) from 1999 and they became the Parti Socialiste de Lutte (PSL) in 2009

3.        The Anger Behind the ‘March in White’, Militant 1296, 25 October 1996

53.      BUILDING SOCIALISM IN THE US

1.        Union Fighters Form Labor Party, Militant 1281, 21 June 1996

2.        More War Years? Socialism Today 88, December/January 2004-05

54.      VISITING RUSSIA

1. Referred to in Socialist 63, 15 May 1998 

55.      LATIN AMERICA

1.        Brazil’s Left-Wing Launch, Socialism Today 85, July/August 2004

2.        Venezuela: a New Phase in the Struggle, Socialism Today 90, March 2005

3.        Followers of the Latin American Trotskyist leader Nahuel Moreno (1924-87)

4.        Huge Crowd Cheers Chavez’s Radical Speech, Socialist 380, 12 February 2005

56.      SOCIALIST PARTY ACTIVITIES

1.        Socialism 2004: ‘A Really Brilliant Weekend’, Socialist 354, 3 July 2004

2.        Forty Years of Fighting For Socialism, Socialist 365, 9 October 2004

57.      LOOKING FORWARD: LABOUR GOVERNMENT

1.        Guardian, 8 December 2003

2.        2004: A New Year of Political Struggle, Socialist 329, 10 January 2004

3.        Prudence with Balls? Socialism Today 81, March 2004

4.        The Prudence of Mr Gordon Brown, William Keegan, John Wiley & Sons, 2003

5.        Thatcherite Policies x 3, Socialist 338, 13 March 2004

6.        Financial Times, 7 May 2004

7.        Daily Mirror, 17 May 2004

8.        What is the Alternative to Blair? Socialist 348, 22 May 2004

9.        Behind New Labour’s Power Struggle, Socialist 362, 18 September 2004

58.      BALANCE SHEET OF TRADE UNIONS

1.        After the NUT General Secretary Election: What are the Lessons for the Left? Socialist 355, 10 July 2004

2.        NUT General Secretary Election: For a Fighting Leadership of the Teachers’ Union, Socialist 331, 24 January 2004

3.        Council Workers Enjoy the Fruits of Victory! Socialist 341, 3 April 2004

4.        Lessons of the UNISON General Secretary Election, Socialism Today 91, April 2005

5.        PCS Executive Passes First-Year Test, Socialist 352, 19 June 2004

6.        Nursery Nurses End 14-Week Strike, socialistworld.net , 18 June 2004

7.        Strike Against Jobs Carnage, Socialist 356, 17 July 2004

8.        Action Needed Across the Public Sector, Socialist 359, 21 August 2004

9.        Delegates Give Thumbs Down to Blair, Socialist 362, 18 September 2004

10.      Uniting to Fight New Labour’s Cuts, Socialist 363, 25 September 2004

11.      Reject Agenda for Change! Socialist 365, 9 October 2004

12.      All Out to Defend Pensions, Socialist 379, 5 February 2005

13.      NUT Leadership Wriggle over Pension Action, Socialist 380, 12 February 2005

14.      Blair’s Pensions Climbdown, Special Supplement of the Socialist, 22 March 2005

59.      WORKERS FIGHT BACK

1.  New Labour – It’s Big ‘Business as Usual’, Socialist 363, 25 September 2004

2.        Union Leaders’ Rebellion Fizzles Out, Socialist 365, 9 October 2004

3.        New Labour – Guilty of Destroying Democratic Rights, Socialist 383, 5 March 2005

4.        An Historic Break with New Labour, Socialist 334, 14 February 2004

5.        Firefighters Break with Labour – Time for a new workers’ party, Socialist 353, 26 June 2004

6.        Labour and the Unions: Heading for a Split, Socialist 356, 17 July 2004

7.        How the Labour Party was Formed, Socialist 414, 3 November 2005, with quotes from GDH Cole, The Second International

60.      SPLIT IN THE SCOTTISH SOCIALIST PARTY

1.        SSP Conference, Socialist 290, 7 March 2003

2.        Spectacular Gains for Scottish Socialist Party, Socialist 299, 10 May 2003

3.        Herald, 30 April 2003

4.        After the Scottish Elections: How is Socialism to be Won? Socialist 302, 31 May 2003

5.        Scottish Socialist Party Conference, Socialist 341, 3 April 2004

6.        Tommy Sheridan Resigns as SSP Convenor, Socialist 372, 27 November 2004

7.        Political Questioning at SSP Conference, Socialist 381, 19 February 2005

61. OUTCOME OF THE 2005 GENERAL ELECTION

1.        The Bittersweet Victory, Andrew Rawnsley, Observer 8 May 2005

2.        Blair’s Last Election, Socialist 391, 6 May 2005

62.      CLIMATE CHANGE AND ‘NATURAL DISASTERS’

1.        Capital Vol III Part VI, Transformation of Surplus-Profit into Ground-Rent, Chapter 46. Building Site Rent. Rent in Mining. Price of Land

2.        Marxism in Today’s World, p22

3.        Save Jobs, Save the Planet, Socialist 42, 5 December 1997

4.        Financial Times, 29 December 2004

5.        It was No ‘Act of God’, Socialist 375, 8 January 2005

6.        Sri Lanka Appeal, Socialist 375, 8 January 2005

7.        Tsunami Relief – the Failure of Capitalism, Socialist 383, 5 March 2005

8.        Three Months after the Tsunami, Government Inaction Fuels the Flame of Protest, Socialist 388, 14 April 2005

9.        Sri Lanka after the Tsunami – Opportunities and Tensions, Socialist 376, 15 January 2005

10.      Worst Disaster for Sweden since World War One, Socialist 375, 8 January 2005

11.      India: A Disaster made Worse by Poverty, Socialist 375, 8 January 2005

12.      Big Gains for United Socialist Party, Socialist 417, 24 November 2005

13.      War or Peace? Socialist 417, 24 November 2005

14.      Pakistan – A Powder Keg Ready to Explode, Socialist 387, 7 April 2005

15.      Hurricane Katrina: A Disaster Made Worse by Capitalism, Socialist 406, 25 August 2005

16.      Class, Race and Katrina, Socialism Today 95, October 2005

17.      Bush Presidency Goes into Freefall, Socialist 414, 3 November 2005

63.      MASS MOVEMENT AGAINST WORLD POVERTY

1.        Front cover of Special G8 issue of the Socialist and International Socialist (Scotland), 30 June 2005

2.        Fight for a Socialist Plan, Socialist 399, 30 June 2005

3.        ‘Fantastic’ CWI meeting, Socialist 400, 7 July 2005

64.      LONDON AND MADRID BOMBINGS

1.        Quoted in Blair’s Blowback, Guardian, 11 July 2005

2.        London Bombings and Iraq, Socialist 401, 14 July 2005

3.        Horror on our Doorstep, Socialist 401, 14 July 2005

4.        A London Bus Driver’s View, Socialist 401, 14 July 2005

5.        Stop Fire Service Cuts, Socialist 401, 14 July 2005

6.        Blair Plea to Muslim Leaders at No 10 Meeting, Guardian, 20 July 2005

7.        No to Terror, Guardian Letters, 22 July 2005

8.        Workers Maintain Class Unity, Socialist 402, 21 July 2005

9.        ‘Blair Vows to Root out Extremism’, Guardian 6 August 2005

65.      “LABOUR A SHAM”: STEPS TOWARDS A NEW PARTY

1.        Engels to H Schlüter, 11 January, 1890

2.        Towards a New Workers’ Party, Socialism Today 96, November 2005

3.        Daily Mirror, 29 September 2005

4.        New Mass Workers’ Party: Conference for Action Needed, Socialist 413, 27 October 2005

5.        This Strangulation of Dreams is Creating a Phantom Party, Guardian, 30 September 2005

6.        New Labour? More like Neutered Labour, Daily Mirror, 29 September 2005

7.        New Mass Workers’ Party: Conference for Action Needed

8.        Sunday Times, 25 September 2005

9.        Labour Will Spend this Week Avoiding the Key Questions, Guardian, 26 September 2005

10.      Why I’m Tearing up my Labour Party Card, Observer, 2 October 2005

11.      Towards a New Workers’ Party

12.      New Mass Workers’ Party: Conference for Action Needed

13.      Successful Launch Conference, Socialist 432, 23 March 2006

14.      Hope and Desperation, Socialist 450, 27 July 2006

15.      John McDonnell’s Leadership Bid, Socialist 450, 27 July 2006

16.      More Time for Politics, Diaries 2001-2007, Tony Benn, p143

17.      Ibid, p141

18.      Ibid p145

19.      Ibid p299 

20.      More Time for Politics Review, Socialist 516, 17 January 2008

21.      How can an Alternative to the Main Political Parties be Developed? Socialist 519, 6 February 2008

22.      Socialist Party Welcomes Debate, Socialist 519, 6 February 2008

66.      PARTY ACTIVITY

1.        Rattling the Bars, Guardian 18 November 2003

2.        Fighting for Socialism, Socialism Today 100, April-May2006

3.        Socialist Party Councillors Make a Difference, Socialist 434, 6 April 2006

4.        Victory for NHS  Campaign, Socialist 439, 11 May 2006

5.        ‘Kidderminster Factor’ Visits Huddersfield, Socialist 439, 11 May 2006

6.        Faces of Labour: the Inside Story, Andy McSmith, Verso Books 1996, p116. The error was corrected in a later edition.

7.        Militant Pioneer Dies, Socialist 450, 27 July 2006

8.        Campaign Brings Victory Against Cuts, Socialist 489, 31 May 2007

9.        Local Campaign Successes Show Effective Leadership in Action, Socialist 489, 31 May 2007

67.      POST-2005 GENERAL ELECTION

1.        Amid all the Doom and Gloom, There are Signs of a Way Out of this Mess, Independent 15 November 2005

2.        Blair’s Reign Unravels, Socialism Today 97, Dec-Jan 2005-06

3.        Fatal Loss of UK Nerve on Pensions, Financial Times, October 20, 2005

4.        Blair’s Reign Unravels

5.        Growing Class Struggles will Increase Tensions, Socialist 396, 9-15 June 2005

6.        Defend Workers’ Rights, Socialist 405, 25 August 2005

7.        Gate Gourmet – Solidarity Action is Vital, Socialist 405, 25 August 2005

8.        Victory for Andy Beadle as he Wins his Job Back, Socialist 419, 8 December 2005

9.        Hands Off our Pensions, Socialist 408, 22 September 2005

10.      Pensions Battle Not Over – but Labour in Retreat, Socialist 413, 27 October 2005

68. DEMISE OF BLAIR

1.        Tony Benn, More Time for Politics: Diaries 2001-2007, p203

2.        Left Victory in Firefighters’ Union, Socialist 392, 12 May 2005

3.        The Socialist 432, 23 March 2006

4.        Nine Years is Long Enough, Guardian 20 March 2006

5.        Benn, op cit, pp304-305

6.        Ibid, p309

7.        The Last Throw of the Dice, Observer, 7 May 2006

8.        Blair’s Election Defeat, Socialism Today 101, June 2006

9.        Dangers in Respect’s Development, Socialist 439, 11 May 2006

10.      Servants of the People: The Inside Story of New Labour, Andrew Rawnsley, Penguin UK, 2001

11.      Dangers in Respect’s Development

12.      Blair’s Long Goodbye, Socialist 456, 28 September 2006

13.      Good Riddance to Blair! Socialist 487, 17 May 2007

14.      Blair’s Departure: Curtain Falls on Disastrous Reign, Socialist 486, 15 May 2007

15.      Corbyn’s Progress, Tariq Ali, London Review of Books, 3 March 2016

16.      The Coronation of Gordon Brown, Socialism Today 110, June 2007

17.      Financial Times, 2 May 2007

18.      The Coronation of Gordon Brown