London Socialist Alliance

Articles analysing the LSA and explaining the reasons for Red Action's participation in it.

THE HOPELESS AND THE REST OF US...
Why socialism has been reduced from a mass movement to a sect in little over twenty years, and why what little remains is apparently happy to line up facing entirely the wrong way is complex. The steady distancing from the class is possibly pivotal. Yet snobbism cannot in itself excuse the excess of stupidity the left call politics - Joe Reilly investigates
Reproduced from RA Bulletin Dec '01 / Jan '02

COUNTDOWN TO MAY 2002
If it is to credibly survive the council elections in less than eleven months time, the general election results 'ought to scotch once and for all the notion' that the LSA is set for some kind of 'breakthrough'.What is needed now, says G. O'Halloran, is a period of sober, comprehensive and more than anything honest re-assessment.
Reproduced from RA Bulletin Volume 4, Issue 12, July/Aug '01

SHOULD WE STAY OR SHOULD WE GO?
Shortly before the news that the LSA would not 'on principle confront the BNP at the ballot box for fear it might split the Labour vote' broke, controversies surrounding Red Actions affiliation to the LSA were already surfacing.
Reproduced from RA Bulletin Vol 4, Issue 11, May/June '01

INSIDE THE LSA - WINNING HAND OR BUSTED FLUSH?
The regular RA delegate finding himself double-booked; it was time to blood a couple of "new boys" into the murky world of the LSA steering committee on December 12.
Reproduced from RA Bulletin Vol 4, Issue 10, March/April 2001

A PLAN BUT NOT A CLUE
Supporters of the LSA like to think they are leading the working class, but are in reality more often than not threatening open collision with it. G.O’Halloran explains why.
Reproduced from RA Bulletin Vol 4, Issue 10, March/April 2001

INSIDE THE LSA
Reactions to the RA resolution calling for an urgent review of the LSA's support for current tactics and strategies on race and immigration.
Reproduced from RA Bulletin Volume 4, Issue 9, November/December '00

"AT LEAST WE DIDN'T GET THE RACIST VOTE"
On October 12, the London Socialist Alliance contested a by-election in Hackneys’ Wick ward. John Byrne looks at the result and what it means for the future prospects of the LSA in this east London borough.
Reproduced from RA Vol 4, Issue 9, Nov/Dec '00

EDITORIALS

Red Action And The LSA
On the heels of Red Action’s application to join the London Socialist Alliance, ‘just what are they up to’ has clearly been the question on many lips. More than once the accusation has been made that we are simply jumping on a bandwagon. And a successful one at that.
Editorial from RA bulletin Vol 4, Issue 8, Sept/Oct '00

London Socialist Alliance Election Results For Greater London Assembly
“If you look at the statistics and ignore the emotion this was not such a bad result” - Louis Van Gaal commented after losing in the Champions League semi-final to Valencia on May 10. For the London Socialist Alliance who had contested the Greater London Assembly elections a week earlier, it is the exact opposite. In the LSA case: ‘if you ignore the emotion, and look at the statistics’, calling it ‘not such a good result’ is to be frank, putting a gloss on it.
Editorial from RA bulletin Vol 4, Issue 7, June/July '00