Chris Strafford reports on the 'Right to Work' conference The Socialist Workers Party’s Right to Work conference on Saturday January 30 saw over 800 socialists and trade unionists pack into Manchester’s Central Hall. An excellent turnout, with the SWP bussing in comrades from across the country, to be joined by contingents from other left groups, including ...
CS members distributed this leaflet at the 6th February convention at UCL.
Dave Isaacson argues for a united revolutionary student organisation On Saturday February 6 student activists from across the country will be attending the National Convention Against Fees and Cuts hosted by University College London Students for Free Education. The organisers have written that the convention “aims to strengthen and broaden the campaigns against cuts, and for ...
Chris Strafford calls for mobilisation, and reports Campaign Iran's rebranding On February 3 the Socialist Workers Party-backed Campaign Iran is hosting a meeting in London to discuss the recent mass upsurge in Iran and how sanctions and military threats undermine the movement for positive social change. The speakers include Ali Fathollah-Nejad, billed as a "political scientist ...
This was the political platform of Communist Students before being amended at the 2010 conference: 1. Communist Students is an autonomous organisation established by members and supporters of the Communist Party of Great Britain - but you do not have to be a member to join us. It exists to promote the ...
Manchester Communist Students is launching a series on 'A Revolutionary History of Germany' with speakers from across the country and the Left. Everyone is welcome to attend, we always meet every tuesday at 6.30pm at the University of Manchester Students' Union in Meeting room 2 or 3. Below is a provisional list of dates and subjects: 09/02- ...
More than corruption revealed in Northern Ireland, writes James Turley The shaky political regime in Northern Ireland is reeling from political scandal. And what a scandal it is - with inter-generational sex, dirty money and mental illness involved, and at the heart of the rightwing establishment in the province as well. It is the stuff of ...
Below we publish a Karl Kautsky article from April 1917, translated into English for the first time by Ben Lewis. It is introduced by Lars T Lih, a historian based in Canada, who has been at the forefront of re-examining the complex relationship between these two widely misunderstood figures of the 20th century workers’ movement. ...
The executive of Leeds University Union (LUU) has released a statement launching a campaign against any strike action to save jobs. They wrote “It’s time to put your education first” totally forgetting that the only way to save jobs and the education is to take decisive action. If the lecturers fail to take action against ...
James Turley looks at the mixed messages from the media about the Copenhagen demonstrations As is the norm for any major gathering of world leaders, the COP-15 talks in Copenhagen over the global warming crisis have been accompanied by a whole series of protests. First, there were the protests outside Denmark, which saw thousands marching at events ...
As the two wings of the regime continue to squabble, the opposition movement grows in radicalism and confidence, write Chris Strafford of CS and Iranian socialist Yassamine Mather There seems to be no end to the crisis which has erupted after Iranian state television showed protesters tearing down or burning images of ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini following ...
Chris Strafford reports on the annual general meeting of Hands Off the People of Iran, where several members of CS were in attendance On Saturday November 28 around 60 people gathered for Hands Off the People of Iran’s third conference. Motions condemning sanctions and threats of war against Iran and calling for a nuclear-free Middle East ...
James Turley reports on the Historical Materialism conference Hundreds of leftwing academics and students gathered last weekend for the annual Historical Materialism conference. HM is a relatively prominent journal of ‘critical Marxist theory’, principally operated by Socialist Workers Party members and supporters as a complement to their International Socialism, which we may call a journal of ...