Students across the country have been fighting back against job cuts in Higher Education as the government is attempting to offload some of the crisis onto students and education workers. As part of the 'National Wave' organised by the National Campaign Against Fees and Cuts students at the University of Westminster went into occupation for ...
Withdrawal calls reveal lack of strategy, writes James Turley In times of severe economic crisis, the basic living conditions of masses of people are thrown into disarray. Entire states go bankrupt, leaving millions vulnerable to redundancy, poverty and worse. In these conditions, people inevitably fight back - in however disorganised, however haphazard a fashion. In the present ...
Both the media and bourgeois politicians want us to concentrate on personal strengths and weaknesses. But that is not the main issue, argues James Turley The British election season is heating up, in more ways than one. Firstly, and most prominently displayed in the last week, the dirty tricks are getting dirtier. Gordon Brown has become the ...
Reports from England, Wales, and Ireland by Ben Lewis, Dani Thomas, and Anne Mc Shane London Friday February 22 saw a successful gig in Stoke Newington, north London, organised by Hands Off the People of Iran. Boredom Riots, Egg Timer and Technosapien entertained a merry crowd and helped us raise over £110 for Workers Fund Iran. The next ...
Can women ever liberate themselves under capitalism? This public forum will see Mary Partington (Feminist Fightback and LRC, personal capacity), Finn Mackay from the London Feminist Network, and a member of Communist Students speak on the causes of women's oppression and how it can be abolished. All welcome- tell your friends! Wednesday 24th February 7:30pm, Room G52 School of ...
Chris Strafford reports Manchester Hopi action On Saturday February 13 Hands Off the People of Iran’s week of action was kicked off at Manchester University with a day school, followed by a fundraising event. Around 35 people attended for some or all of the day. The first session was opened by Steven Monaghan from the Anarchist Federation ...
Capitalism and sustainability do not mix, says James Turley And it was all looking so rosy for the official green movement. After the low point that followed America’s failure to ratify the Kyoto protocol, and the election in 2000 of president George W Bush, who openly flirted with global warming denial, the tide slowly seemed to ...
Laurie Smith reports on last Saturday’s surprisingly positive conference of leftwing student activists Over 100 student activists gathered on Saturday February 6 for the Convention Against Cuts and Fees. Hosted by University College London Students for Free Education and given the green light by both the Socialist Workers Party’s and Alliance for Workers’ Liberty’s student fronts, ...
The resignation of Oskar Lafontaine is a serious blow to the German left party. Tina Becker reports Since Die Linke shook the German political scene by achieving a tremendous 11.9% in the national election of September 2009 (leading to the election of 76 of its members to parliament), it has been followed keenly by the German ...
International Marxist Tendency has suffered a damaging split. Not a new phenomenon, notes James Turley At the 2007 Barcelona world school of the International Marxist Tendency - a not insubstantial, relatively speaking, Trotskyist ‘international’ led primarily by its British section - spirits were as high as the grandiose title of such an event, held in a ...
The Reesites no longer peddle the line that Iran is a democratic country. But despite Lindsey German’s resignation from the SWP, their support for the ‘green movement’, including the butcher Moussavi, shows that the comrades still have not learned what principled international solidarity is, says Tina Becker On February 3 Campaign Iran organised a meeting in ...
To effectively oppose imperialist wars we must avoid the trap of legalism, argues Ben Lewis "How many more smoking guns do we need before Tony Blair is behindbars?” asks the Stop the War Coalition website. The visceral hatred for Blair and what he represents could not be more apparent. This is perfectly understandable. Many activists in the ...
James Turley looks at Tony Blair’s performance before the Chilcot enquiry and the futile search for a smoking gun. Britain’s alliance with the United States is the real culprit January 29 saw, to much media fanfare, former prime minister Tony Blair face the Chilcot inquiry into the 2003 invasion of Iraq and Britain’s part in it. ...