Harley Filben reviews Sean Birchall's 'Beating the fascists: The untold story of Anti-Fascist Action' Freedom Press, London 2010, pp413, £15 (first published in the Weekly Worker) This book appears at an interesting time, given its subject matter. The historical narrative it lays out - the rise of militant anti-fascism from the ...
Collective discipline is absolutely fundamental to majoritarian politics, writes CS member James Turley (first published in the Weekly Worker) There is a need for sober analysis of the strengths and weaknesses of the Real Democracy Now! movement in Spain. Clearly, the inspiration provided by the Arab Spring is both its great strength and weakness. ...
'Blue Labour' is the latest fad to enrapture the leadership of the Labour Party. James Turley probes into its appeal for 'Red' Ed (first published in the Weekly Worker) Edited by Maurice Glasman, Jonathan Rutherford, Marc Stears and Stuart White, the e-book The Labour tradition and the politics of paradox (2011) is introduced by Ed ...
Ben Lewis looks forward to a bold show of mass opposition to austerity on June 30 (first published in the Weekly Worker) On Tuesday May 24 the consultancy firm, MM&K, and the electronic voting agency, Manifest, published a report which exposed the harsh reality and twisted logic of capitalism in crisis. At a time ...
From our own correspondent. While travelling around Germany, CS member Alfred Stevens chanced upon a student demonstration with remarkably similar demands to those of the protests in Britain last year On Wednesday 25 May around 1,500 mainly student protesters gathered outside Hamburg town hall, many clad in T-Shirts bearing the slogan ‘Studiengebühren wegtanzen’ or ‘Dancing Tuition ...
At the 2011 conference of Communist Students a debate was held on the attitude of communists to the Labour Party. This was in response to criticism of the CS executive's decision to affiliate to the LRC, which led to a lot of discussion online- see below for the articles which started the debate. James Turley argued ...
What is the Marxist stance on violence? Is a peaceful revolution against capitalism possible, or must all political power come from the ‘barrel of a gun’? And what do we make of the left-wing terrorists in the 1970’s, or today’s Black Block? Join Communist Students at our next public meeting to discuss these questions. Public Meeting ...
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Commodification is wrecking higher education, argues Yassamine Mather. First printed in the Weekly Worker and republished here for comrades' interest. In October 2010 Lord Browne published his independent review into higher education funding and student finance in England - the latest in a long list of such proposals since 1979. It recommended changes to ...
James Turley replies to critics of the CPGB's project to transform the Labour Party. First published in the Weekly Worker. Two articles appeared in the last Weekly Worker which were sharply critical of the Communist Party of Great Britain's perspectives on work in the Labour Party. Comrade Dave Vincent objects to our reading of Labour's political ...
The defeat of Clare Solomon offers us a snapshot of the student movement, argues Ben Lewis. First published in the Weekly Worker. Elections can be used as a barometer of the class struggle and an insight into the health of our own forces. Notwithstanding the peculiar dynamics within the world of student politics, this ...
Chris Strafford takes issue with the CPGB's aim of transforming the Labour Party The Labour Party represents a particular challenge for the revolution in Britain. It is to the detriment of any Marxist to ignore the fight to supersede it and replace it with a Communist Party. At present there is no wave of workers ...
On Thursday March 31st the Socialist Workers Party held a public meeting in the Showroom Cinema in Sheffield, to lay out their perspectives for the direction of the workers' movement in the aftermath of the massive TUC-organised protest against cuts in London on March 26th. Around fifty people attended, about half of whom were evidently ...