Having brushed Student Respect under the carpet, the SWP launched their new student front on November 1st, on almost identical politics to Education Not for Sale. Dan Read and Dave Isaacson were there. CS proposals to conference- click here Another politics is possible- click here Most of the 150 or so student activists who gathered in London for ...
What lies behind the furore over the Russell Brand radio show? James Turley examines the issues The American populace was about to go to the polls; the financial crisis was grinding ever onwards; the bodies continued to pile up in the Middle East. The British media, then, did the honourable thing and turned over acres of newsprint ...
New SWP student front Another Education is Possible has called an 'emergency protest' for free education in response to the cock-up of the HE budget. Click here for the flyer Friday 14th November, 3pm, outside Westminster Cathedral
Tue 18th Nov 2008 at 17:30 UMSU Meeting Room 2 As the world falls into economic crisis Latin America has blown up with mass movements bringing Left wing governments in Bolivia and Venezuela. Far-right forces in Bolivia are preparing a major assault on the Evo Morales government, with students and trade unionists being ...
Shot at the CS educational on Sunday 2nd: CS member Chris Strafford presents his take on the crisis, and discusses how to understand, explain and agitate around the current crisis of capitalism.
This Saturday will see student activists come together for a conference called 'Another Education is possible' (for some background and analysis see the article 'Another politics is possible'. Here are the proposals we in Communist Students sent off this morning: Amendment: No war on Iran (223 words) The global economic crisis has made world imperialism more belligerent, ...
How should the left react to the financial crisis? Should we, asks James Turley, suspend our polemics against other left groups in order to forge a more effective response? It perhaps says something about the parlous state of today's far left that it takes a catastrophic crisis - either, in boom times, its promise or, currently, ...
Cat Rylance reports on the Hands Off the People of Iran meeting at Manchester University On October 22, after two weeks of building, holding a daily stall, leafleting and publicising, the Manchester branch of Hands Off the People of Iran held a meeting to discuss the situation in Iran. The meeting, held in the University of ...
Marxism 2008 one day special event hosted by the SWP. Sat 6 Dec, 1pm to 7pm at Friends Meeting House, Euston Rd, London NW1 (opp Euston station) Tickets £10/£6 unwaged. More info: www.marxismfestival.org.uk
Ralph Darlington introduces his new book. Thu 13 Nov, 6.30pm at Bookmarks Bookshop, 1 Bloomsbury St, WC1
Free: advance booking recommended. Refreshments provided. Great Hall at Bishopsgate Institute, Bishopsgate, London EC2M 4QH (just across from Liverpool Street Station) Wednesday 26 November 2008, 4.30 - 8.30 pm This event is organised by the Raphael Samuel History Centre (University of East London/Birkbeck College/Bishopsgate Institute), in partnership with ...
This one-day conference will explore the relationship between writing feminist history and the history of feminism. It aims, on the one hand, to generate an historical perspective on the rise of women's, gender and feminist history within the context of the Women's Liberation movement in the 1970s and 80s. On the ...
Our party must be as open and democratic as the society we fight for, argues Dan Macintyre On the left you will hear much about the need for a ‘revolutionary party' or a ‘vanguard party' to organise and strengthen the working class struggle for a socialist society. Indeed, there are many groups on today's left who ...