National Demonstration: London Saturday 3 January Four-year-old Lama Hamdan killed by an Israeli missile on 29 December. "Israel is committing a shocking series of atrocities by using modern weaponry against a defenceless population - attacking a population that has been enduring a severe blockade for many months." The UN Human Rights Council Stop Gaza Massacre Hands Off Gaza: Stop ...
Jack Conrad (CPGB), author of Fantastic Reality: Marxism and the Politics of Religion, asks who the real Jesus was. This video was recorded at a recent Communist Students public meeting.
All that was once certain now melts As John Rees launches his long awaited war on the central committee, both factions of the SWP leadership are coming under fire from sections of the membership. Weekly Worker editor Peter Manson reports According to Socialist Workers Party veteran John Molyneux, “a significant democratic upsurge is taking place in the ...
Lindsey German has declared ‘war’ on the SWP central committee majority, as John Rees prepares to fight back. Editor of the Weekly Worker Peter Manson reports on the burgeoning crisis The Socialist Workers Party leadership has continued the process of disempowering its former number one, John Rees, by recommending that he be removed from the central ...
Palestine Lives 2008 Festival of Palestinian Film and Culture Manchester November 22nd and 29th December 6th and 13th This four day festival of Palestinian film and culture aims to celebrate a people dispossessed of their land, their way of life and their foreseeable future. Includes music by Reem Kelani, Films, Talks and an Exhibition. WFA Film Society ...
Communist Students last meeting in London before the Christmas break will be a public debate on the subject of 'Jesus: revolutionary resistance fighter or son of God?' Jack Conrad of the Communist Party of Great Britain, and author of 'Fantastic Reality: Marxism and the politics of religion', will debate a Christian student. All are welcome, and ...
This week's Communist Students meeting in London will start with an examination of chapter 2 of Mike Macnair's book - 'Revolutionary Strategy: Marxism and the challenge of left unity'. You can read a review of the book by CS member James Turley here: http://communiststudents.org.uk/?p=751 As ever, following our discussion of the text, we will go on ...
Hands Off the People of Iran public meeting - 'The threat of war after Obama's victory' Speakers: Torab Saleth (Workers Left Unity Iran) and Nick Rogers (CPGB) Venue: Kings College London, The Strand, London WC2. Time: Wednesday Novemeber 26, 7pm Hosted by Kings College HOPI society. For more information phone Ben on 07522 408 657
CS London meeting - Reading Marx’s Capital. This week we are looking at chapter 3 of Capital volume 1. The relevant chapter can be found here: http://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1867-c1/ch03.htm There are also useful videos by David Harvey on reading Capital at: http://www.davidharvey.org/ As ever, following our discussion of the text, we will go on to discuss recent political events and ...
This report is from London School of Economics student Michael Deas via Indymedia: Police have used unlawful violence to prevent a student demonstration at the London School of Economics. Students gathered outside the opening of the New Academic Building by the Queen to protest against the naming of a lecture theatre after Zayed bin Sultan Al Nahyan, ...
The article below was written for the last edition of Communist Student. Unfortunately we didn't have the space to include it and a number of other articles in the print edition. It is written by a member of Permanent Revolution and author of the blog Infantile and Disorderly. I expect that it will prompt some ...
Iranian worker activist Mahmoud Salehi has released the following statement on the capitalist crisis. While some in Communist Students will disagree with his characterisation of the Paris Commune as a workers' council, his general argument - that this is a crisis of capitalism as a system, and that it necessitates serious strategic thinking about how to ...
Saturday 4th April 2009 - Sunday 5th April 2009 A protest is being organised outside the NATO conference in Strasbourg, France marking the 60th anniversary of NATO. Anti-war groups from across the world will meet to oppose any further expansion of NATO and demand an end to the occupation of Afghanistan. The organisers have just announced that Noam ...