Nicholas Jones reports on the February 7 meeting of student activists called by the Stop the War Coalition The STWC meeting took place in the context of a wave of occupations in educational institutions across the UK, triggered by opposition to the Israeli state’s attacks on the people of Gaza. The first occupation started at the ...
Special report from Frances Grahl, a student in Tours, on the general strike and growing student unrest in France France came together for a day on Thursday 29th January as public and private sector unions came out in a general strike. Between 11 and 2.52 million people marched to protest against a series of government reforms ...
Since Wednesday Manchester students have occupied buildings across campus, causing massive disruption. Students have moved the occupation three times with students occupying two building yesterday including the central sorting office for the entire University, causing chaos. The police trie dto use threats to get us out of the postal office only retreating after they could ...
The last in our series of previously untranslated works by Rosa Luxemburg shows a different side of her output. It was first published in Die Neue Zeit 1912-13, Vol 2, pp97-100. CS member Ben Lewis has been assisting with these translations Tolstoy’s literary estate, which has been published in German in three volumes by Ladyschnikow in ...
James Turley constrasts different left approaches to the 'British jobs' dispute Protests against the effects of the economic downturn are becoming more and more widespread. The Greek youth rebellion, the sweeping away of the neoconservative government in Iceland, rallies across Russia, the 24-hour general strike in France, mass demonstrations in Latvia and Lithuania and now, Britain: ...
The left's sub-minimum programmes have led to a bureaucrats' victory, writes Boz Cirrik After protracted birth pangs, the National Union of Students has finally passed its governance review under the 'inspirational' presidency of Wes Streeting. The package achieved infamy among student left activists for the comprehensive manner in which it destroyed what remained of NUS democracy. ...
CS will have a large presence at this demo, to push the idea of a marxist and united youth movement. Unfortunately it has been the subject of infighting between the youth fronts of the SWP (AEP) and AWL (ENS), who have both tried to claim exclusive ownership of the demo. The info below is culled ...
What does the election of Barack Obama mean for US foreign policy towards Iran? What are the effect of the sanctions on the Iranian people and what are the US and its allies looking to achieve by them? What is the relationship between sanctions and war, particularly in the context of a new US administration ...
Pro-Zionist agenda is exposed for all to see, writes John-Jo Sidwell Another week and another excellent protest in solidarity with the people of Gaza. However, with the ceasefire and the withdrawal of Israeli troops on January 18, there was bound to be a certain ebbing. The January 24 demonstration in London - beginning outside the BBC in ...
Discussions of programme or party were cut off in mid-flow. Chris Strafford reports on the Convention of the Left The Convention of the Left was launched with much fanfare on September 20 2008. The hope was that local left forums would spring into action up and down the country to help coordinate united front campaigns ...
No applause for John Rees, a possible reconciliation with George Galloway and behind-the-scenes attempts to wrest control of the Stop the War Coalition away from the Rees-German SWP minority … despite its dull title, the January 24 STWC ‘national activists meeting’ was not without interest, report Tina Becker and Simon Wells Around 60 people attended the ...
This previously untranslated article, ‘After the Jena congress’, by Rosa Luxemburg is of particular interest. A cool analytical summation of the Jena congress of German Social Democracy in September 1913, it sounds a warning against the new alignment of the party’s centre and right against the left. In a sign of things to come, the ...
‘Blanquism and social democracy’ is a June 1906 polemic against Georgi Plekhanov, ‘father of Russian Marxism’ and Menshevik leader, taken from Czerwony Sztandar, paper of the Social Democracy of the Kingdom of Poland and Lithuania. It continues our series of Rosa Luxemburg’s previously untranslated writings, translated by CS member Ben Lewis Comrade Plekhanov has published an ...