There is no ahistorical code of 'press ethics' which can come out of this farrago, writes James Turley (first published here) Talk about a hostage to fortune - as soon as this writer detects a “momentary let-up” in the phone-hacking saga,[1] we get a new crop of developments. Another senior News International figure, former News of the ...
Maciej Zurowski spoke to Donnacha DeLong, anarchist and NUJ President (first published here) “Any information relating to anarchists should be reported to the local police” - that is what the good citizens of Westminster were being urged in a notice recently issued by the Metropolitan Police. After all, they are told, “anarchism is a political philosophy ...
With the RMT and TSSA moving towards a merger, Chris Strafford calls for democratic unity from below in the workers' movement (first published here) “While the railway companies are thus combining their forces, and consolidating their interests, railwaymen have allowed their forces to be split into innumerable sections ...”[1] This warning comes from the May 1911 ...
We have no problem with self-defence, writes Michael Copestake (first published in the Weekly Worker) One can almost hear the sound of knees jerking, as calls are heard from sections of the left for the state to take action against the far right following the massacre in Norway. Of course, we on the left feel particular ...
Rather than relying on bureaucratic solutions, argues James Turley, the left needs a dynamic approach to the media (first published in the Weekly Worker) Prior to the outrage in Norway, the news agenda had been dominated by the phone-hacking scandal, and the chaos into which it pitched the entire establishment. The left press was no exception. The ...
Michael Copestake demands the break up of Murdoch's media empire (first published in the Weekly Worker) The continuing turmoil around News International and the phone-hacking scandal has brought into sharp relief the attitudes of the different sections of the labour movement to the media - as things stand, they are machines for making money, tools for ...
The scandal at News International reveals a few home truths about the corrupt establishment, writes James Turley (first published in the Weekly Worker) Some starry-eyed commentators have, of late, begun comparing the implosion of Rupert Murdoch’s media empire with another spectacular collapse: the Berlin wall. This is, obviously enough, overstating the case by some considerable margin. Anybody ...
The News of the World scandal has revealed the true relationship between the media and politicians, writes James Turley (first published in the Weekly Worker) It has probed, at best semi-legally, into the private affairs of well-heeled celebrities, politicians and royals major and minor; yet Rupert Murdoch’s media empire has suffered its first major body-blow in decades ...
Miliband is just as responsible as Cameron for News International corruption, writes Michael Copestake (first published in the Weekly Worker) It was six weeks before the 1997 general election that The Sun newspaper - at the behest of its proprietor, chief executive and chair of the News Corporation monopoly Rupert Murdoch - lent its support to Tony ...
Dave Isaacson reports on the July 9 conference of COR and the limits of the anti-cuts campaigns (first published in the Weekly Worker) Following on just after a week from the impressive strikes by the PCS, NUT, ATL and UCU unions on June 30, you would have thought that the Coalition of Resistance’s second national conference was ...
Ben Lewis attended a workshop on 'Unions and the anti-cuts movement' (first published in the Weekly Worker) It is a shame that the discussion at the workshop on ‘Unions and the anti-cuts movement’ was so brief. Following interesting openings from Joe Malone (Fire Brigades Union), Cat Boyd (Public and Commercial Services Young Members) and Jon Duveen ...
Ben Lewis found the SWP a lot less hostile than in previous years At each and every Marxism there are places where attendees are politely warned not to go by Socialist Workers Party full-timers and more narrow-minded members. The left groups, armed only with pasting tables, books, pamphlets and leaflets (which just might have the odd ...
Harley Filben heard a debate initially consisting of filling in blanks As part of its (often basically nominal) commitment to revolution, the SWP arranged a bloc of three Marxism sessions devoted to that subject. The first saw SWP veteran Colin Barker give some answers to a fundamentally important question - what is a revolutionary situation? His ...