Communist Students were stirring things up at this year's conference of the National Union of Students Members and supporters of Communist Students made a stand for principled Marxist politics at the 2014 conference of the National Union of Students, where CS member Robert Hayes was standing for the ‘block of 15’ individually elected members of the executive. The ...
Paul Demarty examines the legacy of a tireless champion of the Labour left Tony Benn: from centre to left The death of Tony Benn, after a long illness, was announced on March 14, to cap off a cruel week for the British left: Bob Crow of the Rail, Maritime and Transport union had died earlier last week, ...
Chris Strafford and James Turley, members of CS and the CPGB, return to the question of the Labour Party in the Weekly Worker. For older articles in this continuing debate, see our Labour party category. Labour debate: diversionary and doomed to fail Labour is not moving to the left or opening up, says Chris Strafford. We need ...
Miliband is just as responsible as Cameron for News International corruption, writes Michael Copestake (first published in the Weekly Worker) It was six weeks before the 1997 general election that The Sun newspaper - at the behest of its proprietor, chief executive and chair of the News Corporation monopoly Rupert Murdoch - lent its support to Tony ...
Rank and file pressure must be brought to bear not only within the unions, writes Michael Copestake, but on the Labour leadership too The June 30 strikes involving up to 750,000 public sector workers may only have been for one day, and may only have involved unaffiliated unions, but they gave the Labour tops much pain ...
Unions must reject the terms of debate established by government, media, and Labour opposition, argues Michael Copestake So the June 30 strikes are upon us, with four teaching and civil service trade unions out on strike against the vicious class-war cuts programme of the coalition government. Although this initial action should be seen as more of ...
'Blue Labour' is the latest fad to enrapture the leadership of the Labour Party. James Turley probes into its appeal for 'Red' Ed (first published in the Weekly Worker) Edited by Maurice Glasman, Jonathan Rutherford, Marc Stears and Stuart White, the e-book The Labour tradition and the politics of paradox (2011) is introduced by Ed ...
James Turley replies to critics of the CPGB's project to transform the Labour Party. First published in the Weekly Worker. Two articles appeared in the last Weekly Worker which were sharply critical of the Communist Party of Great Britain's perspectives on work in the Labour Party. Comrade Dave Vincent objects to our reading of Labour's political ...
Chris Strafford takes issue with the CPGB's aim of transforming the Labour Party The Labour Party represents a particular challenge for the revolution in Britain. It is to the detriment of any Marxist to ignore the fight to supersede it and replace it with a Communist Party. At present there is no wave of workers ...
Below is a statement in response to the article by James Turley 'Against the politics of purity' and the statement by Manchester comrades 'No support for Labour - No support for the LRC'. This is part of the debate in the lead up to our conference in March that will decide our perspectives for the ...
James Turley takes issue with comrades who oppose our affiliation to the LRC A number of comrades – including some self-identified left-communists – have raised objections to the decision of the Communist Students executive to affiliate CS to the Labour Representation Committee, a grouping of leftists operating in the Labour Party, but open to affiliates and ...
At a Communist Students’ Exec meeting on the 13th of December, a decision was made to affiliate to the Labour Representation Committee (LRC). The driving force behind this was Ben Lewis of the Provisional Central Committee of the CPGB, which has recently adopted a set of theses on the Labour Party.[1] Some points of which ...
Communists want to see the Labour Party completely transformed, writes James Turley. Labour’s leadership contest is now properly underway, with the opening of nominations on May 24. Aspiring candidates will have to secure the consent of 33 Labour MPs in order to go to the vote later this year. According to the Labour Party’s website, David Miliband ...