Communists want to see the Labour Party completely transformed, writes James Turley. Labour’s leadership contest is now properly underway, with the opening of nominations on May 24. Aspiring candidates will have to secure the consent of 33 Labour MPs in order to go to the vote later this year. According to the Labour Party’s website, David Miliband ...
Ben Lewis reports on the campaign to free the outspoken film maker imprisoned by the Iranian regime. Activists in Hands Off the People of Iran have been informed that Jafar Panahi, the internationally acclaimed film maker who has been incarcerated for over two months, has begun a hunger strike in Evin prison. This is the latest brave ...
The crisis in Greece is bound up with the global capitalist downturn. Instead of a nationalist response there could be an international fightback, writes James Turley After eight months of increasingly fervid speculation, the European Union has finalised a bail-out package for struggling Eurozone economies. And for all the strenuous denials from Berlin and Brussels that such ...
Today students held a mass protest at Shahid Beheshti University, Tehran. It ended in clashes with security forces.
Wednesday, May 12, 6pm. Soho Theatre, 21 Dean Street, London W1 With an introduction by John McDonnell MP. The event is co-sponsored by the Labour Representation Committee (click here to read their letter, urging support for the event). For details of screenings in Glasgow and Manchester, click here. Jafar Panahi – the well known Iranian film maker ...
The march organised by Southern and Eastern TUC (Sertuc) to celebrate International Workers’ Day on Saturday May 1 was attended by over 5,000 people. This included the organisations of the British left, trade unionists and pensioners, but, as usual, a very visible majority of Turkish and Kurdish communists and leftwingers belonging ...
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In this session of our educational series on party & programme, James Turley looks firstly at programmes which are ‘broad’, that dilute Marxist politics to try and make quick gains (reading: the programme of TUSC), and then the opposite; those that are ‘fat’, absurdly long and dogmatic (reading: contents page of the ABC’s of communism). Recorded on 17-03-10.
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This is an introduction to Leon Trotsky’s Transitional Programme, given to London branch by CS member Nick Jones as part of our educational programme. Recorded on 10-03-10.
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Creeping censorship must be opposed - even if feelings get hurt, argues James Turley It seems that freedom of speech is once again being quietly undermined. The recent libel case of Simon Singh, the scientist sued by the snake-oil salesmen of the British Chiropractic Association, had the positive effect of outlining the absurdly punitive restrictions on ...
Distributed by members of CS Manchester branch on the 2010 May Day march. Click image to download PDF.
James Turley argues that there is more to the Eyjafjallajökull volcano than disruption to tourists The disruption caused by the gigantic ash column over Iceland is another monument to the idiocy of capitalism. With the skies of western Europe a no-fly zone for a week, a not so remarkable natural event has provoked a very human ...
Ben Lewis reviews Labour Representation Committee’s ‘A people’s agenda: a pamphlet for the general election 2010’* pp12, donation The Labour Representation Committee has been stepping up its activity for the election. A campaign of the Labour left whose most prominent leader is John McDonnell MP, the LRC is unsurprisingly calling for a Labour vote across the ...
Communist Students remains united despite controversial debates, reports Liam Conway The annual conference of Communist Students was held at the University of Manchester student union on April 17. Despite numerous factors preventing comrades from attending (including, yes, the recent volcano eruption in Iceland) it proved a lively day of discussion. Conference began with the usual business of ...