If a group of people all wanted the same thing, one would expect them to work together in order to achieve their common goal - that is, so long as the differences that existed between them were not sufficient to jeopardise that final goal in the process. One may particularly expect this of the far-left: ...
This handy guide, first published in CS11, will help you distinguish between the various, yet on the surface almost identical student groups likely to be recruiting on your campus. Exactly why the left is so divided is dealt with in this article (link). By Harley Filben. 1. National Campaign Against Fees and Cuts Semi-secret parent organisations: Alliance ...
Manchester CS public meeting 6pm, Thursday 20th October Cameron Committee Room on 3rd floor of MMU **Meeting postponed on 13th October** The Middle East and North Africa have seen a wave of uprisings against decades-old dictatorships which sought to stifle all dissent. Oppression and grinding exploitation at the hands of both local tyrants and Western capital lies behind the ...
Cat Rylance on the tumultuous protests that shook British society last year Around this time last year, school, college and university students were preparing for the opening blow of the Conservative-Liberal Democrat attacks on public services. These attacks were met with a level of resistance not seen for decades. Walkouts, occupations and mass demonstrations mobilised hundreds ...
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What did the classical Marxists actually say on the subject of education? James Tansey has been finding out, and draws some lessons for communist work today. In February 1865, at the age of 24, Paul Lafargue first met Karl Marx in a visit to report on the progress of the International Workingmen’s Association in France. Marx ...
According to the secretary of state for education, Michael Gove, ‘one of the under-appreciated tragedies of our time has been the sundering of our society from its past’1. Unfortunately, he was not referring to the tendency for subjects like politics and economics to be taught in a manner completely torn from all historical context, but ...
On Sunday October 2 over 35,000 workers, students, pensioners and anti-cuts campaigners marched outside the Conservative Party conference. This is a sizeable increase from the 7,000 demonstrators at last year’s conference, underlining the growing, yet still sluggish, moves to resist the austerity measures. The conference itself was ringed by steel walls, barricades and hundreds of ...
As I write, commentary on the ongoing Conservative Party conference is focused not on David Cameron’s ‘can-do optimism’, not on the news that effectively the wheels have fallen off George Osborne’s economic strategy, with the estimate for UK economic growth over April-June cut to 0.1%, and not even on the impending euro zone catastrophe. No, ...
1. What is communism? Communism is a form of society where all production is organised and carried out by the voluntary association of free producers. In today’s society - capitalism - you work because, if you do not, you will starve (or, at best, scrape together enough benefits to keep a leaky roof over your head and ...
Ed Miliband is being attacked from the right, argues James Turley. It is a commonplace these days that politics - like more or less everything else - has been ruined by spin and PR. The roll-call of villains and debacles is well storied: Alastair Campbell, Andy Coulson and even the makers of the dodgy Iraq dossier ...
Manchester CS public meeting 6pm, Thursday 6th October Cameron Committee Room on 3rd floor of MMU Most of the left are calling for a general strike against the cuts. At this meeting we will be examining this tactic and its limitations. An introduction will be given by a CS member, followed by plenty of time for discussion and ...
Manchester CS public meeting 6pm, Thursday 29th September Cameron Committee Room on 3rd floor of MMU What began with a 'few bad apples' in the finance sector has been revealed as a full-blown crisis of global capitalism, and the working class is being made to pay. What are the particular features of this crisis, and how can communists ...