Dani Thomas reviews Rodchenko and Popova: defining constructivism, at Tate Modern until May 17 Standing in front of one of Liubov Popova’s astonishing works in her 1918 ‘Painterly architectonics’ series, you get the impression that you are witnessing before your eyes the formation of a brand new aesthetic. The smashed shards of the old order are ...
The G20 will not agree on anything substantial, reckons James Turley, but the left has problems too As most on the left will be aware, the G20 - an inter-governmental group comprising representatives of 19 economically powerful countries, with an extra slot for the European Union - meets on April 1. This is a routine meeting, but ...
by Laurie Smith Alliance for Worker's Liberty members have been trying to smuggle their poisonous pro-imperialist politics into the Sheffield occupation for Gaza. For those not in the know, the AWL are a small Marxist group bureaucratically controlled by the dear leader Sean Matgamna and a close circle around him. Uniquely on the left, they refuse ...
Called by Manchester Hands Off the People of Iran Hands Off the Students of Iran - 25 March Day of Action Manchester 1pm University of Manchester Students' Union Manchester HOPI along with our friends in Manchester's Iranian community are calling a day of action on the 25 March at the University of Manchester Students' Union (UMSU) ...
Afghanistan is not the only campaign to be escalated under Obama, writes Ted North Barack Obama conveniently found god at the time he entered politics. Similarly, as he has risen in politics, his attitude to drugs has become ever more reactionary and opportunist. He was lucky the police did not kick down the door when as ...
The AWL are pushing for a new student's union now they can no longer play ball in NUS- but could only get 12 people to a meeting. Ben Lewis reports... The Alliance for Workers’ Liberty student group, like the organisation more generally, appears to be somewhat at a loose end. Their chauvinistic rightism on the question ...
James Turley writes that we need an internationalist response to the capitalist crisis When the present economic crisis first began to bite, the bourgeois press - and the left - used up a lot of ink discussing how deep it would turn out to be. Would it be as bad as the 1997 Asian financial collapse, ...
Chris Strafford reports on a struggle that brought many new activists into the movement On Friday March 6 the long-running student occupation at the University of Manchester ended. After 31 days of pro-Gaza solidarity in three different buildings students left after forcing the vice-chancellor into negotiations. The whole episode has re-energised the student movement - ...
Defending democracy and the principle of self-determination, Stan Keable (CPGB) replies to James Turley (CS and CPGB) James Turley, in his contribution to the CPGB’s current debate on Israel-Palestine, quite rightly locates democracy and political freedom as being at the core of the CPGB’s conception of working class advance, and at the core of classical Marxism ...
The annual conference of Communist Students is our highest decision-making body and the only one which can change our platform and constitution. The executive have set the date of April 26th (Sunday) for this year's conference, which will be in London. Exact time and place will be confirmed nearer the date. The provisional agenda drafted ...
All that the SWP’s membership has been offered is a sop, argues James Turley Read the internal documents This year’s Socialist Workers Party conference, held in January, was dramatic. The disagreements at the top of the organisation, which had come to a head with the catastrophic blow-out for the SWP’s Left List in the London assembly elections, ...
Has the Alliance for Workers’ Liberty lost its marbles? Ben Lewis (CS) and Mark Fischer (CPGB) ponder the evidence You may wonder what sort of day people in the Alliance for Workers’ Liberty had on February 27. Was it perhaps a frenetic whirl of buzzing activity, as comrades prepared for a huge new campaigning effort? Did ...
James Turley, member of CS and the CPGB, takes issue with other Weekly Worker writers on the question of self-determination and the prospects for Arab unity It became an obvious necessity for the CPGB to tidy up its line on Israel/Palestine as the question of Zionism flowered into a full-scale war between our organisation and the ...