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Occupations, Police Violence and Student Resistance

Resistance
Students across the country have been fighting back against job cuts in Higher Education as the government is attempting to offload some of the crisis onto students and education workers.  As part of the ‘National Wave’ organised by the National Campaign Against Fees and Cuts students at the University of Westminster went into occupation for [...]

Obamalaise hits home

James Turley looks at the first year of the Obama presidency

Last Wednesday was January 20 – not a particularly important date most years, except to astrologers. On that date last year, however, Barack Obama became the 44th president of the United States of America – to a rapturous reception from a war-weary and crisis-ravaged US [...]

Some thoughts on the proposed charter of the Communist Workers of Iran

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Ben Lewis welcomes the initiative of Communist Workers of Iran and offers some fraternal criticisms

We welcome the political platform of the Communist Workers of Iran (CWI). We have proofed and edited the English text and are publishing it in the hope that, at a time when the Iranian masses are on the move once more, [...]

Ecology and economism

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Ben Lewis reviews Martin Empson’s Marxism and ecology: capitalism, socialism and the future of the planet Bookmarks, pp32, £1.50

In some ways, this Socialist Workers Party pamphlet is a useful read. Although it hardly presents a thoroughgoing critique of capitalism and its plundering of nature, it carries arguments, backed up by numerous figures and statistics, that [...]

Leeds University Union undermines resistance to job cuts

LUU Scabs.

LUU Scabs
The executive of Leeds University Union (LUU) has released a statement launching a campaign against any strike action to save jobs. They wrote “It’s time to put your education first” totally forgetting that the only way to save jobs and the education is to take decisive action. If the lecturers fail to take action [...]

Coming out for Wales

In 2010 we might jsut see a sporting world where homosexuality is at least less of a taboo, and for this we must thank Alfie Thomas, writes Ben Lewis
It is rare that you read or see something in the news that cheers you up. The far left press’s eternal Panglossianism – occasionally tantamount to [...]

Society’s fear of youth

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In today’s society there is a growing fear of the youth, one does not have to look too hard in the bourgeois press to find periodic waves of anti-youth hysteria. The bourgeoisie play on the fears of the elderly and middle England, promising to get tough on ‘anti-social behaviour’ and tough on the causes [...]

Eviction notice on Lewisham Bridge occupation Weds 10.30am

Bailiffs are arriving at 10.30 on Wednesday morning.
Hands Off Lewisham Bridge are asking for your support in resisting the eviction. We need as many people as possible to stay overnight on Tuesday. If you can’t stay overnight then please come down as early as possible on Wednesday morning to support the occupation.
We want to let [...]

Details of Protests in Iran – Saturday

To carry on our attempt to help aid our comrades and friends in Iran we are posting up the details of the next major rallies.
Saturday 4.00pm Revolution Square
Rahpeymaiye baadi Shanbe 4:00 pm Meidan Enghelab
Next rally Sat 4:00 pm Enghelab [...]

Ahmadinejad fakes mass demonstration

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Comrades the below picture shows the front cover of the newspaper Keyhan, where it shows that the Ahmadinejad demonstration on Sunday was put through photoshop to replicate parts of the crowd. The same method was used to produce photos of a rocket launch where one of the rockets failed to get off the ground.
This furthers [...]