Communist Students held its annual conference at the University of Westminster at the weekend, with a focus on gathering and galvanising our forces for the year ahead. Following a difficult couple of years for the organisation in the wake of an acrimonious yet largely apolitical split in the Summer of 2012, the organisation has been just ...
After months of infighting the Socialist Party in England and Wales pulled out of the NCAFC. But the fallout exposes the hypocrisy and cynicism of the Alliance for Workers’ Liberty, writes Rease Higgs Anyone familiar with student politics and the National Campaign Against Fees and Cuts will not be surprised that it has descended into turmoil ...
The Socialist Platform’s claim to the mantle of principled politics is entirely bogus, says Daniel Harvey Some may recall that on September 14 2013 the drafters of Left Unity’s Socialist Platform in Left Unity and their supporters found themselves voting against basic principles like extreme democracy, opposition to the bourgeois constitution, working class formations being organised ...
Tom Munday on the turning over of an SWP stall and the burning of their papers at Sussex university Hurrah for the autonomists! Hurrah for the comrades bringing revolution to the campuses of Sussex last week, felling the dastardly Socialist Workers Party and purging its bilious propaganda with fire! Also there was some kind of political ...
IS Network is in trouble again. Daniel Harvey looks at the regroupment efforts by the marsh For those pulling out of the Socialist Worker’s Party into an uncertain political future, an unedifying prospect greets them in the shape of the previous split from earlier this year, now calling itself the International Socialist Network. Women’s liberation has ...
Robert Hayes reports back on the 2013 NCAFC National Conference which was held at the University of Birmingham from on November 23rd-24th The National Campaign Against Fees & Cuts (NCAFC) is a federation of students, education workers, and campus campaigns, founded by far left student groups and allies in 2010. It organises radical direct action against ...
Last week saw an outbreak of student protest. Daniel Harvey reports The sudden re-ignition of student protest on campuses began on December 5, when students from the University of London began an occupation of Senate House Library in Bloomsbury. A set of demands blasted the “undemocratic and unaccountable” university management, and announced the solidarity of the ...
Callum Williamson looks at the latest assaults on the student movement University managements are clearly attempting to tighten the parameters of what is deemed as acceptable protest on campus. In collaboration with the police they have set about to intimidate dissenting students taking part in protests over the last three weeks through arrests, physical coercion, suspensions ...
Syriza has been held up as a party that should be emulated. Daniel Harvey examines the reality Since the general election last year, Syriza, a coalition of left organisations, has been the main opposition in the Greek parliament. This achievement seems likely to be followed up by Die Linke in the German Bundestag, where it is ...
The latest developments in German politics should serve as a reality check for the ‘broad party’ advocates in this country, argues Ben Lewis For all the talk of the recent German elections being the most boring in memory, having been met with huge levels of apathy and indifference on the part of the population, the results ...
Daniel Harvey examines the politics underlying recent regroupment efforts The International Socialist Network’s October 26-27 ‘politics conference’ saw a left ‘grouping’ (actually too disorganised to be a faction in the proper sense) around Tim Nelson and Paris Thomson narrowly winning votes against the right (led loosely by Richard Seymour) on rank-and-file strategy and on any immediate ...
Daniel Harvey looks at developments in the political regroupment project centred on the International Socialist Network following its weekend conference In the last six months or so there has been a slowly developing regroupment project underway between various Trotskyist splinters. Some of the roadblocks in this process became clearer at the October 19-20 ‘politics conference’ of ...
Callum Williamson on the offensive against university workers and students The strike action taking place in universities across the UK this week follows the refusal of the University and Colleges Employers Association (UCEA) to resume national negotiations with Unite, Unison, the University and College Union, the Educational Institute of Scotland and the GMB (the last two ...