James Turley reports on a good day in the fight to build resistance to the coalition's austerity (first published in the Weekly Worker) There can be nobody attending Saturday’s mass demonstration against the cuts who left feeling despondent or pessimistic. The official attendance estimate is in the region of 250,000, with Socialist Worker claiming “well over half ...
Tuesday 22nd and Thursday 24th saw a nationwide strike by lecturers from the UCU union protesting attacks on their pensions and higher education. Here at Manchester Metropolitan University members of Communist Students were at the picket lines on Thursday morning, to show solidarity with lecturers in their ongoing struggle against management. The MET, being a ...
As the tenth anniversary of 9.11 and the war in Afghanistan approaches , Stop the War is organising a day event to assess the damage done by the War on Terror, the impact of challenges to US global power and the likelihood of further wars.
Where: Westminster Abbey (map) Description: Baked bean protest at Royal Wedding.
Where: The Mall and Parliament Square, London (map) Callout below; The British establishment want us to celebrate the grotesque extravagance of the marriage of a 'prince' to a 'princess'. This medieval theatre is an insult to millions of people living in poverty and suffering from Tory cuts. Help to make the 'fairytale ...
Supported by: o Black Triangle Anti-Defamation Campaign o Brighton Benefits Campaign o Cardiff’s Unemployed Daytime Disco o Carer Watch o Carer Watch fb page o Crippen – Disabled Cartoonist o Diary of a Benefit Scrounger o Disabled People Against Cuts o Dundee Unemployed Workers o Free London Listings o Goldsmiths in Occupation o Haringey ...
Ben Lewis wonders why some still consider China a model for socialist development If ever there was a story that pithily summarises China’s transition from a ‘bloc of the four classes’ (National Liberation Army, national bourgeoisie, peasantry and workers) under Mao Zedong to a Stalinist sweatshop ‘big player’ in the global imperialist world ...
Technology is not socially neutral, declares James Turley (first published in the Weekly Worker) When they were not on Libya this week, the world’s eyes have been on Japan, following its most severe earthquake on record and the resultant tsunami. However, the focus soon shifted from the thousands who died to the effect ...
Police and Glasgow University management were left embarassed yesterday by a remarkable turn of events. After bosses called in the police to forcibly evict students from a seven week long occupation, the evictees marched a few hundred metres up the road, took over the university's main building and, after refusing to back down in negotiations, ...
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Cracks are emerging in the state apparatus- but we have to face the full social role of the police squarely, writes James Turley first published in the Weekly Worker The mass student protests mobilised a wide variety of young people (and their teachers, parents and lecturers) from different backgrounds - geographical, social and political. Yet, in ...
The following article was written last year by CS member James Turley and was in response to Mark Harrison of CS and The Commune who wrote an article expressing an abstentionist attitude towards parliament and moved a motion at our conference holding these sentiments. In the last century, something unprecedented in the whole of human history ...
Callout below: 2010 saw an unprecedented wave of student protest, this was followed in 2011 by a series of mass protest in the Middle East. The student movement has been a breath of fresh air. Now, in order to ensure that this energy is harnessed and not frittered away, we now have to ensure that we ...