Posted on February 15th 2010 |
Laurie McCauley reports on last Saturday’s surprisingly positive conference of leftwing student activists
Over 100 student activists gathered on Saturday February 6 for the Convention Against Cuts and Fees. Hosted by University College London Students for Free Education and given the green light by both the Socialist Workers Party’s and Alliance for Workers’ Liberty’s student fronts, [...]
Posted on February 15th 2010 |
International Marxist Tendency has suffered a damaging split. Not a new phenomenon, notes James Turley
At the 2007 Barcelona world school of the International Marxist Tendency – a not insubstantial, relatively speaking, Trotskyist ‘international’ led primarily by its British section – spirits were as high as the grandiose title of such an event, held in a [...]
Posted on February 15th 2010 |
Moussavi: no friend of socialists
The Reesites no longer peddle the line that Iran is a democratic country. But despite Lindsey German’s resignation from the SWP, their support for the ‘green movement’, including the butcher Moussavi, shows that the comrades still have not learned what principled international solidarity is, says Tina Becker
On February 3 Campaign Iran [...]
Posted on February 11th 2010 |
Chris Strafford reports on the ‘Right to Work’ conference
The Socialist Workers Party’s Right to Work conference on Saturday January 30 saw over 800 socialists and trade unionists pack into Manchester’s Central Hall. An excellent turnout, with the SWP bussing in comrades from across the country, to be joined by contingents from other left groups, including [...]
Posted on February 3rd 2010 |
Below is a letter which we emailed to both Another Education is Possible and Education Not for Sale on January 29.
Dear comrades,
we understand that Another Education is Possible and Education Not for Sale are in talks, along with Daf Adley (NUS LGBT Chair) and Bellavia Ribeiro-Addy (NUS Black students Chair), about the possiblity of standing [...]
Posted on January 24th 2010 |
The Labour Representation Committee has just published a list of Labour candidates that it will be actively supporting in the coming general election. It is a starting point, argues Ben Lewis
The Labour Representation Committee’s January 13 press release on the general election highlights the weak position the Labour left currently finds itself in. This in [...]
Posted on December 17th 2009 |
James Turley reports on the Historical Materialism conference
Hundreds of leftwing academics and students gathered last weekend for the annual Historical Materialism conference. HM is a relatively prominent journal of ‘critical Marxist theory’, principally operated by Socialist Workers Party members and supporters as a complement to their International Socialism, which we may call a journal of [...]
Posted on November 21st 2009 |
Dave Isaacson condemns leading SWP members who continually undermine and sabotage attempts to forge rank and file organisation
There was one significant omission in Jim Moody’s article on the sell-out of the postal strike by the Communication Workers Union leadership, which allowed CWU president Jane Loftus to come out of it looking rather good, when actually [...]
Posted on November 21st 2009 |
The Labour left is hoping just to maintain its foothold in the party and in parliament, writes Dave McAllister
On Saturday November 14 the Labour Representation Committee held its annual general meeting, dubbed ‘Building the resistance’. Over 200 comrades attended and there were stalls for the Morning Star’s Communist Party of Britain, Bookmarks, Socialist Appeal and [...]
Posted on November 21st 2009 |
What does the SWP majority think democracy looks like?, asks
James Turley
Last year, the dispute between the majority faction of the Socialist Workers Party central committee and John Rees and his allies erupted, and in the aftermath all manner of smaller complaints began to arise; questions about the political basis of Respect, the party regime and [...]
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