Keir Starmer has resigned as PM. In the 1980s he believed in something (recording of seminar on his Socialist Alternatives period)
As Prime Minister its often suggested that he has no particular political beliefs. Views on that may vary but in the 1980s he saw himself as a red-green socialist as part of the Socialist Alternatives project. On 20th May 2024 the London Socialist Historians Group held a seminar with the Editor of Socialist Alternatives Benjamin Schoendorff
Benjamin Schoendorff The Socialist Alternatives experiment: an 1980s attempt to search for a new revolutionary subject
Recording of the seminar
The then Editor of Socialist Alternatives Benjamin Schoendorff looks at what the 1980s project was trying to achieve and reflects on the input of one of its most well-known contributors, Keir Starmer
Keir Starmer, Socialist Alternatives July/August 1986
Trade Unions in a Wapping World
The struggle for workers control means.. effective defense of the unions, supporting national and local pickets and a principled advocacy of solidarity action.
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