The Labour left is hoping just to maintain its foothold in the party and in parliament, writes Dave McAllister On Saturday November 14 the Labour Representation Committee held its annual general meeting, dubbed ‘Building the resistance’. Over 200 comrades attended and there were stalls for the Morning Star’s Communist Party of Britain, Bookmarks, Socialist Appeal and ...
What does the SWP majority think democracy looks like?, asks James Turley Last year, the dispute between the majority faction of the Socialist Workers Party central committee and John Rees and his allies erupted, and in the aftermath all manner of smaller complaints began to arise; questions about the political basis of Respect, the party regime and ...
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Mark Harrison, member of CS and the Commune, gives an overview of the 1968 uprising in France and discusses its weaknesses and lessons for today.
The Socialist Party's 'Socialism 2009' event had a session on young people. Laurie Smith reports and asks what politics the working class needs In the session on ‘Young people: the fight for a future’, a rather small audience of 10 comrades was addressed by Ben Robinson of SPEW’s Youth Fight for Jobs campaign and Tracy Edwards, ...
James Turley offers an appreciation of the life of Chris Harman, 1942-2009 A prominent figure on the British far left for several decades, Chris Harman, has died aged 66. All that time, he was a member of a single organisation. Perhaps remarkably, that organisation is the Socialist Workers Party - or its antecedents in the shape of ...
“What do I want from this life? What makes you happy is not enough. All the things that satisfy our instincts only satisfy the animal in us. I want to be proud of myself. I want more. I want to look up to myself and when I die, I want to smile ...
Manchester CS has kicked off the ‘Revolutionary France’ series with a discussion on the lessons of the Paris Commune of 1871, after reading chapter 5 of Karl Marx’s ‘Civil War in France’. Around 20 attended and debated the National Question, a programme to win the Peasantry, the revolutionary party and why such history is not ...
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CPGB member Chris Strafford discusses the Lessons of the Paris Commune as part of Manchester Communist Students series on revolutionary France.
Moshe Machover, Emeritus Professor at King's College, Israeli socialist and anti-Zionist, will be speaking. Plenty of time for questions and debate- all welcome. Public meeting hosted by Hands Off the People of Iran 7:30pm, Tuesday November 10th Meeting room K.018, King's College Strand Campus, The Strand, London (tube: Temple)
Building solidarity in Manchester- Chris Brandler reports Students in Manchester have established a campaign in solidarity with postal workers. It involves comrades from the Socialist Workers Party, Communist Students, the Alliance for Workers’ Liberty and Anarchist Federation, as well as non-aligned leftwing individuals. We sent delegations to picket lines last week and will be heading back again ...
James Turley sees SWP politics reduced to ultra-shrill self-parody It has been a busy week for the Socialist Workers Party - the largest and most visible far-left group in Britain today. Its members and periphery formed the biggest part of Saturday’s demo against the Afghanistan war, as well as the bulk of Thursday’s shrill protest at ...
Cat Rylance attended the latest Stop the War demo On Saturday October 24 around 5,000 protestors marched through central London on the Stop the War Coalition-organised demonstration against the war in Afghanistan. Attendance was rather disappointing, especially in view of the fact it seemed virtually to have been promoted by the BBC. The ...
Over 20 people attended the Communist Students day school in Manchester on Saturday October 17. Most were from the city, where our comrades have been working hard to build the event, though there was a good contingent from London and the south. Entitled ‘Fighting for Marxism on campus’, the day school was intended to introduce the ...