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class="site-main"> <div class="clearfix container"> <section id="primary" class="content-area"> <div id="content" class="site-content" role="main"> <header class="page-header"> <h1 class="page-title"> elections </h1> </header> <article id="post-3624" class="clearfix post-3624 post type-post status-publish format-standard has-post-thumbnail hentry category-article tag-elections tag-france tag-front-populaire"> <header class="clearfix entry-header"> <h2 class="entry-title"><a href="https://isj.org.uk/election-campaigns-and-antifascism-in-france-a-response-to-denis-godard/" rel="bookmark">Election campaigns and antifascism in France: a response to Denis Godard</a></h2> <div class="entry-meta"> <span class="posted-on">Posted on <a href="https://isj.org.uk/election-campaigns-and-antifascism-in-france-a-response-to-denis-godard/" title="3:29 pm" rel="bookmark"><time class="entry-date published updated" datetime="2025-01-19T15:29:39+00:00">19th January 2025</time></a></span><span class="byline"> by <span class="author vcard"><a class="url fn n" href="https://isj.org.uk/author/richardthesis70/" title="View all posts by International Socialism">International Socialism</a></span></span> </div> </header> <div class="entry-thumbnail"> <a href="https://isj.org.uk/election-campaigns-and-antifascism-in-france-a-response-to-denis-godard/" title="Election campaigns and antifascism in France: a response to Denis Godard" > <img width="250" height="175" src="https://isj.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/melenchon-insoumis-190617-m-250x175.jpg" class="attachment-thumb-featured size-thumb-featured wp-post-image" alt="" decoding="async" /> </a> </div> <div class="entry-summary"> <p>Denis Godard’s article in International Socialism 184 aims to assess the situation in France today and sketch out the tasks of the left.1 It also presents the history of the Popular Front in France in the 1930s, intending to draw… <a href="https://isj.org.uk/election-campaigns-and-antifascism-in-france-a-response-to-denis-godard/" class="more-link">Continue Reading <span class="meta-nav">→</span></a></p> </div> <footer class="entry-meta entry-footer"> <span class="cat-links"> <i class="ico-folder"></i> <a href="https://isj.org.uk/category/article/" rel="category tag">Article</a> </span> <span class="tags-links"> <i class="ico-tags"></i> <a href="https://isj.org.uk/tag/elections/" rel="tag">elections</a>, <a href="https://isj.org.uk/tag/france/" rel="tag">France</a>, <a href="https://isj.org.uk/tag/front-populaire/" rel="tag">Front Populaire</a> </span> </footer> </article> <article id="post-3511" class="clearfix post-3511 post type-post status-publish format-standard has-post-thumbnail hentry category-analysis tag-elections tag-labour-party tag-palestine"> <header class="clearfix entry-header"> <h2 class="entry-title"><a href="https://isj.org.uk/war-and-resistance/" rel="bookmark">War and resistance—in Palestine and beyond</a></h2> <div class="entry-meta"> <span class="posted-on">Posted on <a href="https://isj.org.uk/war-and-resistance/" title="1:37 am" rel="bookmark"><time class="entry-date published updated" datetime="2024-06-12T01:37:44+01:00">12th June 2024</time></a></span><span class="byline"> by <span class="author vcard"><a class="url fn n" href="https://isj.org.uk/author/richardthesis70/" title="View all posts by International Socialism">International Socialism</a></span></span> </div> </header> <div class="entry-thumbnail"> <a href="https://isj.org.uk/war-and-resistance/" title="War and resistance—in Palestine and beyond" > <img width="250" height="175" src="https://isj.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/cover-183-250x175.jpg" class="attachment-thumb-featured size-thumb-featured wp-post-image" alt="" decoding="async" loading="lazy" /> </a> </div> <div class="entry-summary"> <p>Our previous issue of International Socialism went to press carrying the banner headline, “Globalise the Intifada!”.1 By the time it returned from the printers, student encampments in solidarity with Gaza had sprung up in universities in the United States, a… <a href="https://isj.org.uk/war-and-resistance/" class="more-link">Continue Reading <span class="meta-nav">→</span></a></p> </div> <footer class="entry-meta entry-footer"> <span class="cat-links"> <i class="ico-folder"></i> <a href="https://isj.org.uk/category/analysis/" rel="category tag">Analysis</a> </span> <span class="tags-links"> <i class="ico-tags"></i> <a href="https://isj.org.uk/tag/elections/" rel="tag">elections</a>, <a href="https://isj.org.uk/tag/labour-party/" rel="tag">Labour Party</a>, <a href="https://isj.org.uk/tag/palestine/" rel="tag">Palestine</a> </span> </footer> </article> <article id="post-3477" class="clearfix post-3477 post type-post status-publish format-standard has-post-thumbnail hentry category-article tag-elections tag-international-socialists tag-party"> <header class="clearfix entry-header"> <h2 class="entry-title"><a href="https://isj.org.uk/swimming-waving/" rel="bookmark">Swimming, waving and drowning: a response to Paul Murphy</a></h2> <div class="entry-meta"> <span class="posted-on">Posted on <a href="https://isj.org.uk/swimming-waving/" title="1:57 pm" rel="bookmark"><time class="entry-date published updated" datetime="2024-04-11T13:57:26+01:00">11th April 2024</time></a></span><span class="byline"> by <span class="author vcard"><a class="url fn n" href="https://isj.org.uk/author/richardthesis70/" title="View all posts by International Socialism">International Socialism</a></span></span> </div> </header> <div class="entry-thumbnail"> <a href="https://isj.org.uk/swimming-waving/" title="Swimming, waving and drowning: a response to Paul Murphy" > <img width="250" height="155" src="https://isj.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/votes-250x155.jpg" class="attachment-thumb-featured size-thumb-featured wp-post-image" alt="" decoding="async" loading="lazy" /> </a> </div> <div class="entry-summary"> <p>I welcome Paul Murphy’s response to my recent article on revolutionaries and elections.1 Murphy is a superb socialist member of the Dáil, Ireland’s parliament, where he represents the People Before Profit (PBP) formation, in which members of Socialist Workers Network… <a href="https://isj.org.uk/swimming-waving/" class="more-link">Continue Reading <span class="meta-nav">→</span></a></p> </div> <footer class="entry-meta entry-footer"> <span class="cat-links"> <i class="ico-folder"></i> <a href="https://isj.org.uk/category/article/" rel="category tag">Article</a> </span> <span class="tags-links"> <i class="ico-tags"></i> <a href="https://isj.org.uk/tag/elections/" rel="tag">elections</a>, <a href="https://isj.org.uk/tag/international-socialists/" rel="tag">international socialists</a>, <a href="https://isj.org.uk/tag/party/" rel="tag">party</a> </span> </footer> </article> <article id="post-3415" class="clearfix post-3415 post type-post status-publish format-standard has-post-thumbnail hentry category-uncategorised tag-elections tag-left-reformism tag-reformism"> <header class="clearfix entry-header"> <h2 class="entry-title"><a href="https://isj.org.uk/learning-to-swim/" rel="bookmark">Learning to swim: revolutionaries, broad parties and elections</a></h2> <div class="entry-meta"> <span class="posted-on">Posted on <a href="https://isj.org.uk/learning-to-swim/" title="9:03 pm" rel="bookmark"><time class="entry-date published updated" datetime="2023-12-31T21:03:38+00:00">31st December 2023</time></a></span><span class="byline"> by <span class="author vcard"><a class="url fn n" href="https://isj.org.uk/author/richardthesis70/" title="View all posts by International Socialism">International Socialism</a></span></span> </div> </header> <div class="entry-thumbnail"> <a href="https://isj.org.uk/learning-to-swim/" title="Learning to swim: revolutionaries, broad parties and elections" > <img width="250" height="175" src="https://isj.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/paul-murphy-250x175.jpg" class="attachment-thumb-featured size-thumb-featured wp-post-image" alt="" decoding="async" loading="lazy" /> </a> </div> <div class="entry-summary"> <p>Twenty years ago, amid the seemingly diminishing shadow of Stalinism, qualitative rightward shifts by social-democratic parties and the emergence of new left-wing parties, there was a lively debate about these new formations and how revolutionaries should relate to them.1 History… <a href="https://isj.org.uk/learning-to-swim/" class="more-link">Continue Reading <span class="meta-nav">→</span></a></p> </div> <footer class="entry-meta entry-footer"> <span class="cat-links"> <i class="ico-folder"></i> <a href="https://isj.org.uk/category/uncategorised/" rel="category tag">Uncategorised</a> </span> <span class="tags-links"> <i class="ico-tags"></i> <a href="https://isj.org.uk/tag/elections/" rel="tag">elections</a>, <a href="https://isj.org.uk/tag/left-reformism/" 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href="https://isj.org.uk/revolutionare-und-wahlen/" title="Revolutionäre und parlamentarische Wahlen" > <img width="170" height="175" src="https://isj.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/cover179-170x175.jpg" class="attachment-thumb-featured size-thumb-featured wp-post-image" alt="" decoding="async" loading="lazy" srcset="https://isj.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/cover179-170x175.jpg 170w, https://isj.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/cover179-50x50.jpg 50w" sizes="(max-width: 170px) 100vw, 170px" /> </a> </div> <div class="entry-summary"> <p>Aus dem Englischen von Rosemarie Nünning. 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