John Sidwell recalls a well intentioned and honest young man On Saturday August 15, my good friend Richard Hunt became the 200th British casualty since the initial invasion and subsequent occupation of Afghanistan. Inevitably a shock to all his friends and family, his death brought home to me the fragility of thousands of working class lives ...
James Turley calls for troops out of Afghanistan now On August 20, the population of Afghanistan (or some of it, at any rate) went to the polls to elect their president. Hamid Karzai, the incumbent, remains the favourite, as the votes are counted. The mood in much of the western media, at the outset, was cautiously optimistic. ...
Was Karl Marx right? Thursday September 24, 17.00 : Public meeting, University of Manchester Students Union, Oxford Road, M13. Organised by UMSU Communist Students: manchestercommuniststudents@googlemail.com
Speakers: Ilan Pappe Israeli anti-zionist historian Shamiul Joarder Friends of Al Aqsa Lindsey German Convenor Stop the War Coalition Lowkey Musician and MC Sabah Jawad Iraqi Democrats Against Occupation Guy Smallman Photo-journalist recently returned from Afghanistan The National Student Conference on 19 September will bring together students and young people from across the country. There will be discussions on strategy and tactics, ...
National Demonstration: London Troops Out of Afghanistan Now Saturday 24 October Central London Called by Stop the War Coalition, CND and BMI. Details tba. 10 reasons to get the troops out of Afghanistan... The majority of people in Britain want the troops out of Afghanistan now. They know this war is unwinnable and unjustifiable. The demonstration on Saturday 24 ...
James Turley salutes a courageous act of rebellion Lance corporal Joe Glenton has made a kind of history, by becoming the first enlisted soldier in the British army to openly rebel against the war in Afghanistan. He now faces a court martial, having had his first preliminary hearing on August 3. His next is in a month, ...
Afshin is a student at Tehran University who was involved in the protests following the presidential elections. He spoke to the Weekly Worker ... Can you explain what happened and the reaction from the authorities? The protest at Tehran University was one of the first post-election movements. Students started to gather near the main gate chanting slogans such ...
James Turley reviews Kenan Malik’s From fatwa to jihad: the Rushdie affair and its legacy Atlantic, 2009, pp266, £16.99 The year 2009 is the anniversary of many things - the 20th of the collapse of the eastern bloc countries that instigated the final death of a decrepit Stalinism; the 25th of the Miners’ Great Strike; and ...
Solidarity vid
Sundays, 17.00. Study topic, plus weekly political report from Provisional Central Committee. Ring 07950 416922 for details. August 23 : August H Nimzt Jr Marx, Tocqueville and race in America. Subject: ‘Explaining the civil war: revolutionary practice’.
Sex education must be comprehensive, clear, and compulsory, writes James Turley Nothing gets up the back of hard-line reactionaries like sex - and, more importantly, under-18s getting anywhere near it without asking their mothers. One particularly well known point of contention in all this is sex education - who should get it, what they should get and ...
The continued rise of the British National Party raises key questions about the left’s strategy. Ben Lewis takes a look at the Socialist Workers Party’s analysis and argues for a root-and-branch rethink The election of BNP leader Nick Griffin and acolyte Andrew Brons to the European parliament has been endlessly reported in both the bourgeois media ...
James Turley looks at the role of new media in politics One of the more curious features of the western media coverage of the recent events in Iran has been the prominence given to social networking websites. In particular, Twitter - which allows users to easily distribute short and typically frivolous messages to those who sign up ...