Archives

Kautsky, Lenin and the ‘April theses’

Posted on January 15th 2010 | No comments

Below we publish a Karl Kautsky article from April 1917, translated into English for the first time by Ben Lewis. It is introduced by Lars T Lih, a historian based in Canada, who has been at the forefront of re-examining the complex relationship between these two widely misunderstood figures of the 20th century workers’ movement. [...]

We need militancy in the Workers and Students movements

Posted on November 28th 2009 | 3 comments

Callum Williamson looks at the need for militancy in the Workers and Students movements
It is an inevitability that this economic downturn will lead to a heightened state of class conflict across the globe. In past weeks 250,000 Irish public sector workers went on strike against wage cuts. In Turkey there have been walk outs [...]

Manchester CS: Marx and the Lessons of the Paris Commune

Posted on November 12th 2009 | No comments
Communists in the French Resistance

Communists in the French Resistance
Manchester CS has kicked off the ‘Revolutionary France’ series with a discussion on the lessons of the Paris Commune of 1871, after reading chapter 5 of Karl Marx’s ‘Civil War in France’. Around 20 attended and debated the National Question, a programme to win the Peasantry, the revolutionary party and why [...]

National event: Fighting For Marxism On Campus

Posted on September 3rd 2009 | No comments
Karl Marx: News of the Coming Revolt

[ October 17, 2009; 10:00 am to 5:00 pm. 10:00 am to 5:00 pm. 10:00 am to 5:00 pm. ] Saturday October 17 2009
Manchester University Student Union, Oxford Road
Meeting Room 1, 10am – 6pm
Capitalism is in its deepest crisis since the 1930s. The world is at an historic turning point. The crisis comes at an enormous human cost – soaring unemployment, house repossessions, wage cuts and attacks on basic services and social security provision. The [...]

Islam and Rushdie

Posted on August 4th 2009 | No comments
From Fatwa to Jihad

James Turley reviews Kenan Malik’s From fatwa to jihad: the Rushdie affair and its legacy Atlantic, 2009, pp266, £16.99
The year 2009 is the anniversary of many things – the 20th of the collapse of the eastern bloc countries that instigated the final death of a decrepit Stalinism; the 25th of the Miners’ Great Strike; and [...]

For Recallable MPs on a Worker’s Wage

Posted on May 23rd 2009 | No comments

James Turley brings down some false hares raised during the crisis over MPs’ scams

If any MP had entertained the naive hope that the expenses crisis was going to blow over with a few well chosen platitudes, they have now been decisively disappointed.
On May 19, the speaker of the House of Commons, Michael Martin, announced his [...]

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 [...]

Politics of swine flu

Posted on May 10th 2009 | No comments

Nationalise drug companies under democratic control, says James Turley
The British media has managed to get itself into yet another incredible panic over a viral contagion.
Having stubbornly failed to be devastated by severe acute respiratory [...]

What is the ‘united front’?

Posted on April 23rd 2009 | No comments
images

Both on the student left and the more generally, the ‘united front’ is often used as a way of justifying this or that opportunistic turn. We hear it constantly from the Socialist Workers’ Party when it discusses setting up and doing work around campaigns like Unite Against Fascism (which in reality are more like popular [...]

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 [...]

 
  Older Entries »