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Theocracy threatens bloodbath as mass movement grows

Posted on January 11th 2010 | No comments

Iranian workers are on the offensive, reports Chris Strafford
2010 has begun the way 2009 ended in the Islamic Republic of Iran, with millions protesting in cities and towns across the country. But the dangers facing the Iranian people have undoubtedly increased over the last few weeks.
Further sanctions are being put in place, and Obama is [...]

The Socialist Solutions to the Israel-Palestine Conflict by Moshé Machover (voice files)

Posted on December 2nd 2009 | No comments
Moshé Machover

Moshé Machover
On December 1st Manchester Communist Students hosted Israeli socialist and anti-Zionist Moshé Machover at the University of Manchester Students’ Union. This talk focuses on comrade Machover’s understanding that the oppression faced by Palestinians cannot be overcome without a change in the balance of forces on a regional scale. He also discusses his understanding of colonialism, [...]

New vision for Europe wanted

Posted on October 10th 2009 | No comments
eu map

James Turley argues that the bourgeoisie is incapable of uniting Europe on any secure basis
Ireland’s referendum on the European Union’s Lisbon treaty is surely the last major hurdle it will face.
The Irish parliament still needs to formalise ratification, and the presidents of Poland and the Czech Republic have also yet to sign. The latter’s, [...]

Hands Off the People of Iran AGM

Posted on September 27th 2009 | No comments
AGM design flat

[ November 28, 2009; ]
Hopi Annual General Meeting

Come along to the HOPI AGM on November 28 to discuss the current situation in Iran and our plans for the future.

Venue: Somers Town Community Centre, 150 Ossulston Street, London NW1 1EE. More details will be posted soon, so watch this [...]

Polling day quagmire

Posted on August 28th 2009 | No comments
Hamid Karzai

James Turley calls for troops out of Afghanistan now
Hamid Karzai
On August 20, the population of Afghanistan (or some of it, at any rate) went to the polls to elect their president. Hamid Karzai, the incumbent, remains the favourite, as the votes are counted.
The mood in much of the western media, at the outset, was cautiously [...]

Sloganeering and socialism

Posted on May 10th 2009 | No comments

Ted North reviews Martin Smith’s Why ‘British jobs for British workers’ won’t solve the crisis: why we need jobs for all Socialist Workers Party, 2009, pp26, £1.50
To be fair to Martin Smith, his short pamphlet gives some  useful facts [...]

Break with sect ‘broad fronts’

Posted on March 23rd 2009 | No comments

Communist Students is preparing the ground for the kind of student movement we need, writes Ben Lewis
Anybody who watches television or reads the newspapers will have noticed that these are not exactly the best of times for the capitalist class. Stock markets have crashed, the banking system nearly went into meltdown and unemployment, house repossessions [...]

Nations and rights

Posted on March 13th 2009 | No comments

Defending democracy and the principle of self-determination, Stan Keable (CPGB) replies to James Turley (CS and CPGB)

James Turley, in his contribution to the CPGB’s current debate on Israel-Palestine, quite rightly locates democracy and political freedom as being at the core of the CPGB’s conception of working class advance, and at the core of classical Marxism [...]

Carrot and stick

Posted on March 10th 2009 | No comments
Israelis must be forced to abandon Zionism

James Turley, member of CS and the CPGB, takes issue with other Weekly Worker writers on the question of self-determination and the prospects for Arab unity

It became an obvious necessity for the CPGB to tidy up its line on Israel/Palestine as the question of Zionism flowered into a full-scale war between our organisation and the [...]

Lars T. Lih- Lenin and Kautsky: The Final Chapter

Posted on January 22nd 2009 | 1 comment
Karl Kautsky, Pope of Marxism, Renegade, or both?

This is a talk given by Lars T Lih which has been taken from the Socialist Democracy website. In a previous interview with CS back in December Lih stated that ” [Karl]Kautsky’s positive influence on Lenin does not end even in 1914″. This speech explains why he thinks so.
Lenin and Kautsky: The final chapter
By LARS [...]

 
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