BY ROGER SILVERMAN WORKERS’ INTERNATIONAL NETWORK BLOG The world today is in a more disturbed state than at any time in the last eight decades. The global structure that came into being after the Second World War had divided the world into three sharply defined sectors: the industrially developed capitalist countries (“the West” plus Japan); the Stalinist states (the USSR and its East … [Read more...]
The New Plutocracy – A Response from Raymonde Debord
Raymond Debord, of Militant, A Marxist Review for the Twenty-First Century (France) June 2025, comments on Roger Silverman's article dated April 2025. See the Roger's article HERE About the international situation A few remarks on Roger Silverman's analysis Comrade Silverman's contribution is an excellent way of entering into an essential discussion: understanding the new historical … [Read more...]
May Day 2021 – International Address by Roger Silverman
"I had the honour to participate in an inspiring May Day meeting with comrades from Iran, Iraq, Afghanistan, Turkey, Greece and around the world. My contribution on Zoom is HERE ". … [Read more...]
THE NEW PLUTOCRACY
By Roger Silverman, April 2025 See response from Raymond Debord HERE. The world is reeling with shock and disbelief. Its dominant power has abruptly abandoned eight decades of economic orthodoxy, diplomatic consensus, strategic alliances and liberal pretensions. At home this means the shutdown of entire government agencies, mass redundancies, defiance of judicial rulings, incarceration, … [Read more...]
A NEW ERA HAS BEGUN
by Roger Silverman The return to power of Donald Trump in the USA marks the beginning of a new era in world history. In its former strongholds of North America, western Europe and Japan, capitalism is decaying, prone to periods of stagnation punctuated by slumps and weak recoveries, and dominated by a shrinking elite of super-billionaires indulging in largely parasitic, corrupt and … [Read more...]
Interview with Sri Lankan union activist Swasthika Arulingam: Aragalaya, IMF and what is happening today
On Friday, February 1st 2024, Roger Silverman from WIN and Nikos Anastasiadis from Internationalist Standpoint interviewed Swasthika Arulingam, a trade union activist from Sri Lanka. She described the process behind the huge 2022 uprising that ousted the longstanding authoritarian Gotabaya Rajapaksa, its strengths and weakenesses, and what is the state of consiousness, the Left and the movement … [Read more...]
Jeremy Corbyn – 40 Years as MP for Islington North – Statement by Roger Silverman
Yesterday I had the honour of speaking on behalf of the Socialist Labour Network at the event marking Jeremy Corbyn's 40 years as MP for Islington North. Here's the text of my speech... * * * * Greetings from the Socialist Labour Network and from Newham Socialist Labour. Congratulations, Jeremy, on your lifelong struggle for the cause of socialism – all the more so for the forty years you fought … [Read more...]
Marx and the First International, with Roger Silverman
Speaking at a session of Labour Left Alliance Education Series April 2023 "In the great laboratory of the first world working-class movement, Marx and Engels, concentrating theoretically the whole experience of the working class, pitted the ideas of scientific socialism against all the bogus cranks and eccentrics who had latched on to the movement with their charlatan potions… The … [Read more...]
Sydney Silverman
with Roger Silverman As one in a series 'Lives of the Left' presented by Labour Left Alliance, Roger Silverman tells the moving story of his amazing resilient father and Labour MP Sydney Silverman. Socialist, human rights campaigner, conscientious objector, lawyer, lecturer, Sydney devoted his life to the left; among his many achievements he fought for the admission to the UK of Jewish … [Read more...]
IS LABOUR DEAD?
Roger Silverman: Is Labour Dead? - YouTube At this week's Future of the Left event in Liverpool, Roger Silverman spoke on the question "Is Labour Dead?". That might seem a hard case to argue at a time when, due to the Tory government's gross corruption and ineptitude, Labour is suddenly 33 points ahead in the polls. But, as he says here, this is certainly no party of labour. Here is his opening … [Read more...]