Solidarity 309, 15 January 2014

A call to activists quitting the SWP to discuss seriously with others on the left, including AWL. Dave Renton, one of the well-known figures in the new wave of people who have quit the SWP after its December 2013 conference (NWSQ for short), sets his aim for 2014 as "the regroupment of the best of the Cliffite diaspora, and then (with luck) contributing to that bolder, braver left of which we can be just a constituent part". This version of the article is longer than in the printed paper. The term "Cliffite" comes from the SWP's long-time leader Tony Cliff, who died in 2000. This search to...

On 28 December 2013, West Bromwich Albion strike Nicolas Anelka made an anti-Semitic “quenelle” gesture. Anelka says the gesture was an “anti-establishment” tribute to his friend, the comedian Dieudonné M’bala M’bala. Describing himself primarily as an “anti-Zionist”, Dieudonné has become increasingly politically associated with the fascist far-right. Yves Coleman, a French activist involved in the journal Ni patrie ni frontières (“No Fatherland, No Borders”), offers a contribution to the discussion about the convergence of “anti-Zionism” with the far-right, and the French left’s response...