On Sunday 12th October there will be a debate between Sean Matgamna (Worker's Liberty) and Moshe Machover (Campaign for a Marxist Party) on 'Israel, the Palestinians, and Iran'. Here we reprint a statement by the Communist Party of Great Britain: CPGBers are distributing this statement in response to an internal AWL background briefing distributed by Martin ...
John Pringle takes a light-hearted look at the failings of revolutionary groups Communism is a system only achievable by the most profound means, the overthrow of the existing social order and its replacement with another, as unrecognisably different as it is improved. Such an undertaking is vast and awe-inspiring. It is the act of a self-enslaved ...
James Turley assesses the politics around Sir Ian Blair's resignation Ian Blair: faux-liberalLast week's resignation of Metropolitan Police commissioner Sir Ian Blair followed a long period of mounting controversies. He had been ‘encouraged' to depart (he was the first commissioner to resign since 1918) by Boris Johnson, the London mayor, who argues that it is time for ...
Transphobia is completely unacceptable, writes Robbie Folkard A furore has erupted at Manchester University after one set of toilets in the student union building was made gender-neutral, the toilets formerly being ‘ladies’ and ‘gents’ now being merely ‘toilets’ and ‘toilets with urinals’. The idea was to provide trans (gender-variant) students with toilet facilities where they would no ...
The threats against Iran are growing, the biggest US fleet since 1992 are now in the Persian Gulf. Israel has set about dry run tests in the Mediterranean practising bombing raids against Iranian nuclear facilities. Inside Iran the threat of war is giving excuses for the regime to crack down on dissent. HOPI Manchester is ...
Public meeting: Solidarity with the students! No to imperialist intervention! October 8, 7pm, Room K4U.12, Kings College, The Strand, London Behrooz Karimizadeh and Kaveh Abbasian are prominent leaders of the student movement in Iran and have recently fled to Britain. Behrooz has only recently been released after enduring over four months of imprisonment and torture at the hands ...
Leaflet concerning the furore over gender-neutral toilets at Manchester University Students' Union. Click image to download PDF.
On Sunday 5th Oct a group of Iranian students gathered in front of the Islamic Majlis (parliament) in Tehran protesting at their expulsion and other restrictions from the university authorities. These students are known as "marked students" - a term used by the Ministry of Higher Education to describe students with no security ...
A new generation of students is coming into politics. Communist Students has been recruiting through the country and, as our three short reports show, it is clear that a new mood exists Manchester Communist Students made a very successful intervention at the University of Manchester’s freshers fair, meeting some interesting new comrades and signing up 80 students ...
The right's criticisms of 'greedy spivs' are a cynical cover to maintain the system of capitalism, reckons James Turley. So why do they find an echo on the left? The world’s financial markets were thrown into turmoil by the House of Representatives’ unexpected rejection of the George Bush-Hank Paulson $700 billion bail-out plan. As I write, ...
Film of Behrooz Karimizadeh and Kaveh Abbasian's Press Conference in London Mark Fischer heard two of Iran's student activists talk of persecution and imprisonment - from WW 739 A well-attended press conference in central London on September 29 saw two student activists from the Equality and Freedom Seeking Students in Iran describe their experiences at ...
From CS Issue 6 The brute facts of student life are rather more harsh than in the past. Grants, not loans. Fixed fees, not free education. Spying on ‘radical’ student groups on campuses. Petty harassment of young people on the streets and authoritarian attempts by the establishment to micro-manage our lives - from our alcohol intake, ...
This edition of our journal is designed to introduce the politics of Communist Students to the new audience attending freshers’ fares around the country. It features themes that are integral to our work as a Marxist group: the decline of capitalism, genuine internationalism and the crisis of the left. Faced with the mess capitalism has made ...