Hopi Annual General Meeting Come along to the HOPI AGM on November 28 to discuss the current situation in Iran and our plans for the future. Venue: Somers Town Community Centre, 150 Ossulston Street, London NW1 1EE. More details will be posted soon, so watch this space!
The one state solution: principled solidarity or cul-de-sac? London Communist Forum on Israel-Palestine and the tasks of the left Date: Sunday, October 11, 2009 Time: 6:30pm - 9:30pm Location: Lucas Arms Street: 245a Grays Inn Road City/Town: London, United Kingdom View Map Phone: 07950416922 Email: office@cpgb.org.uk Description Debate between Tony Greenstein (Alliance for Green Socialism); Moshe Machover (Matzpen co-founder) and Jack Conrad (CPGB). All welcome. Plenty of time for questions, discussion and ...
James Turley calls for a powerful workers’ movement needs to offer a real political lead in challenging the power of the capitalists As the last party conference season before the general election gets into full swing, all corners of bourgeois politics are singing from the same hymn sheet. And the music is troubling to the ears ...
Calls for state, local government and BBC censorship and bans will inevitably backfire against the workers’ movement, argues Ben Lewis Doubtless bolstered by the British National Party’s recent electoral success, there has been a rise in far-right street mobilisations, leading to tussles with the police, Muslim youth and left activists, including those from Unite Against Fascism. ...
Glasgow Caledonian University - Iran: reform or revolution? Wednesday September 23, 17.15 Location: Room M142 , George Moore Building Glasgow Caledonian University email: office@hopoi.info Hands Off the People of Iran's campaign demands are: ** No to any imperialist intervention. The immediate and unconditional end to sanctions on Iran. ** No to the theocratic regime! ** Opposition to Israeli expansionism and aggression ** Support to all ...
Farcical and reactionary Even by the standards of ‘paedo panic’ hysteria, writes James Turley, plans to vet 11 million adults who come into regular contact with children are absurd On September 14, New Labour architect and business secretary Peter Mandelson gave a speech at the London School of Economics on the future course of public spending. Labour, ...
Simon Wells reports on the rally in support of striking Tower Hamlets College workers At Tower Hamlets College in East London, for over a three weeks now, 250 members of staff have been on indefinite strike. The strike is against education cuts at the college affecting places for people who want to study ESOL (English for ...
Hands Off the People of Iran meeting in Leeds Date: Tuesday, September 22, 2009 Time: 7:30pm - 9:30pm Location: Leeds Uni, Woodhouse Lane, Parkinson SR, B.22 City/Town: Leeds, United Kingdom Phone: 01132759762 Email: hopileeds@gmail.com In the last few months, Iranian society has been gripped by political crisis, sparked by the nakedly fraudulent outcome of its recent elections We must consider serious questions such as what vehicle can the Iranian ...
Running out of road James Turley looks at the G20 and continued US-UK domination Over the weekend, finance ministers and officials from the G20 group of industrialised states met in London, ahead of a summit of G20 leaders in Pittsburgh later this month. The result of the meeting is, to say the least, very telling. The main talking ...
Beyond the limits Huw Sheridan reviews Steve Jones’s Darwin’s island: The Galapagos in the garden of England Little, Brown, 2009, pp307, £20 The anniversarial hype surrounding Charles Darwin continues unabated. The BBC alone broadcast a seemingly endless flow of programmes as part of its Darwin season. Jones’s book is essentially a polemic against the parody of Darwin’s life ...
James Turley asks who is the real threat to the world’s masses The release of Abdelbaset Ali Mohmed Al-Megrahi - the ‘Lockerbie bomber’ - has triggered a huge, seemingly disproportionate explosion. As most readers will know, at 6.25pm on December 21 1988, Pan Am flight 103 departed Heathrow airport for New York. Less than an hour later, ...
Saturday October 17 2009 Manchester University Student Union, Oxford Road Meeting Room 1, 10am - 6pm Capitalism is in its deepest crisis since the 1930s. The world is at an historic turning point. The crisis comes at an enormous human cost – soaring unemployment, house repossessions, wage cuts and attacks on basic services and social security provision. The ...
Hands Off the People of Iran Iran: reform or revolution? Wednesday September 23, 17.00 : Discussion with Iranian exiles and a showing of the film Persepolis. University of Manchester University Students Union, Oxford Road, M13. Organised by Manchester Hopi: hopimanchester@googlemail.com w: www.hopoi.org e: office@hopoi.info