Youtube presentation 15 March 2023 Roger Silverman: Ukraine and the drive to World War III - YouTube Roger Silverman presents a socialist internationalist case. “Russia, hands off Ukraine. Immediate withdrawal of occupation forces. No trust in NATO. Oppose all sanctions, arms supplies and escalation of the war. Solidarity with the people of Ukraine in defence of their democratic rights. … [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...]
The Twilight of the Monarchy
by Roger Silverman The royal family are often dismissed as a pantomime sideshow. This is a mistake; the role of the monarchy is crucial. Prime ministers are appointed and subject to arbitrary dismissal by the monarch – as seen for instance in the peremptory dismissal of Australia’s mildly left-reformist prime minister Gough Whitlam in 1973. The British prime minister is obliged to report once … [Read more...]
A Turning Point
The death of a monarch who had reigned for 70 years, and the early defenestration of a prime minister less than three years after winning a landslide election victory, both mark a significant turning point in British history. The following extract from a recent editorial in our journal ON THE BRINK (published by the Workers' International Network) is relevant... * * * * What we are witnessing … [Read more...]
Workers Arise! The Fightback has Begun!
by Roger Silverman We’re witnessing the return of nightmares that we’d always been told had been relegated to ancient history. There had been no pandemics since the flu of 1918; no major slump since the great depression in the 1930s; no threat of world war since 1945; no fear of nuclear annihilation since the 1962 Cuban crisis; no trace of inflation since the 1970s. Just look now: plague; … [Read more...]