South Ossetia is a pawn, writes James Turley The conflict between the Russian Federation and the former Soviet republic of Georgia is a reflection of growing divisions in the imperialist order. On August 6 renewed skirmishes took place between Georgian government forces and those of the breakaway province of ...
James Turley reviews Mike Macnair's Revolutionary strategy November publications, 2008, pp204, £7.99 The last two decades have seen momentous and epochal shifts in world politics, taking in the fall of the Stalinist countries, the emergence of China as a serious force on the world market - and the almost total obliteration of the far left. The anti-globalisation ...
Communist Student Carey Davies has written this poem about the defunct cooling towers by the Tinsley Viaduct which greet people arriving in Sheffield. Proposals to turn the towers into an art installation or a theme park have been rejected and they are now scheduled for demolition. the tinsley towers i could watch them for hours magnificent and dour we ...
First published in the Weekly Worker 732 Yassamine Mather demolishes the AWL leader's falsehoods... and CS member Ben Lewis was present when the AWL set up yet another posing front group In Iran there is a saying used when someone makes a comment based on a number of falsehoods, leading to an even sillier conclusion. It ...
First published in the Weekly Worker 732 There should be no place for Sean Matgamna in any principled Marxist organisation, write CS member James Turley and Mark Fischer After his article in Solidarity of July 24, it should be axiomatic that Sean Matgamna - the loose-cannon patriach of the Alliance for Workers' Liberty - be expelled from ...
The furore over The great global warming swindle is about more than climate change denial, argues James Turley After over a year of wrangling, the Office for Communications (Ofcom) media watchdog has found Channel 4 in breach of various sections of the broadcasting code, over the documentary The great global warming swindle. The programme triggered a serious ...
Following the Geneva talks, the threat against Iran is as real as ever, argues Ben Lewis Those concerned about the prospect of Iran being bombed back into the stone age may have been encouraged by the recent attempts at diplomacy and negotiations between the US, Britain, France, Germany, China, Russia and Iran over the weekend of ...
James Turley argues that the left, rather than twisting words, must approach defeatism creatively This article stems from a too brief (as they always are for subjects as gravely important as this) discussion at a meeting addressed by the Hands Off the People of Iran campaign at the Socialist Workers Party's Marxism 2008. Though the meeting, held ...
From the People's Youth Bloc On June 26, at around 10.40pm, comrade Ángel Humberto Martínez Cerón was assassinated just a few metres from his home. He was the General Coordinator of the "January 24" Revolutionary Socialist Students Block (known as BERS-24). The political activity this revolutionary young militant was involved in was the reason why the ...
Davood Bagheri is an Iranian student activist who helped organise the recent wave of student demonstrations. He fled Iran in fear for his life but was arrested by Turkish police trying to cross the border into Greece. Davood has been held for three months in Erdine prison and tortured repeatedly. After a suicide attempt he was ...
This year's Marxism felt rather flat, writes CS executive member Ben Klein. Despite the positive spin that invariably accompanies any Socialist Workers Party event, it was a disappointment, not least in terms of the numbers attending (this was first published in the Weekly Worker 729, which also carries a longer report of Marxism and a report ...
Location: Derbyshire Protest against BNP’s Red, White and Blue festival, Derbyshire. Time and venue to be confirmed. Organised by Notts Stop the BNP: http://nobnpfestival.wordpress.com/
The CPGB's annual school - the Communist University - is different. It features sharp ...