HOPI's Chris Strafford on shady manoeuvres by Manchester SWSS. As a supporter of HOPI I have always expected hostility from those who peddle apologist politics. Its not a big surprise to see John Rees from the SWP speaking to Iranian television as activists of social movements in Iran are being tortured and killed. Its not a ...
A sit-in protest last Thursday (November 1) at Morton West High School in Illinois has ended disgracefully with 37 students on the expulsion chopping block. For "gross disobedience and mob activity", it says here. While in the grand scheme of the vile crimes perpetrated by the American State on dissidents, expulsion counts somewhat ...
Exeter University was aflame with controversy this past Friday night, as a Debating Society...er...debate took place amid an ever thicker fug of controversy. The topic is an old DebSoc standard - "this house believes that the BNP should be allowed to speak on campus" or some equivalent wording - but it is now clear that, ...
Among the many groups on the youth left, REVOLUTION (the allied youth group to the League for the Fifth International) has managed to issue a message of support to Hands Off the People Of Iran and Communist Students in the wake of their shoddy exclusion in the run-up to Stop The War conference. In that message, ...
by Elizabeth Clements Not being a member of any left (or right for that matter) political groups, upon being thrown into a large gang of communists, I very quickly realised religious people were treated sceptically, if not incredulously, as if it isn’t possible for someone living in these modern times to still be taken with the ...
A response to Andrew Murray's latest nonsense by Dave Isaacson In response to the emails protesting the exclusion of Communist Students (CS) and the Hands Off the People of Iran campaign (Hopi) from the Stop the War Coalition (StWC) Andrew Murray, who sent us the original email informing us of our exclusion, has been replying with ...
This is a reply, of sorts, to an article posted by Ted North of Communist Students in the latest Communist Student paper. Given that that paper is dedicated to more explicitly political interventions in serious areas of controversy in the student Left (and its limitations in terms of space and frequency), I have decided ...
In a breach of movement democracy nothing short of criminal, the bureaucrats who (mis)lead the Stop the War Coalition have, at the 11th hour before Conference, denied the affiliation of Communist Students (along with the Hands Off the People of Iran campaign). Said bureaucrats sent out two near-identical, curt e-mails to us and Hopi (text ...
posted by James Turley It seems our brothers and sisters around the world have been awfully busy these last couple of days. And not without good reason - in the Indian province of Uttar Pradesh, the most populous region in India (and, indeed, most populous of all its analogues - US states, etc - in ...
Posted by James Turley Good to see this Reuters report confirming the simmering ferment on Iranian campuses is still very much alive. Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, conversely, is wanted by "pro-reform" (oh aye?) students very much dead. Those interested in following these ongoing struggles should keep an eye on the Hopi (Hands Off the People of Iran) website ...
by James Turley As most comrades will be aware, the small British group Workers Power and its network of clone-parties the League For the Fifth International (LFI) has recently fallen on hard times. Last summer, a minority consisting largely of the group's most experienced and talented activists were ejected, forming around a new and impressively ...
by James Turley There is a perfectly fascinating experience to be had on your way to Tate Modern's current Turbine Hall exhibition, Global Cities. First, one emerges from Southwark tube station, and is immediately confronted with the brand new Palestra building at 197 Blackfriars Road, a glass office monolith with a wonky top (ker-azee!) and a ...
by James Turley Another year, another Communist University - and what have we learned, kiddies? Nights of profligate alcohol consumption do not altogether mix with mornings of the labour theory of value. The Russian government's attempts to can the former public holiday marking the October Revolution border on the farcical... ...but not so much as what shall hopefully ...