Posted on March 4th 2010 |

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 [...]
Posted on January 28th 2010 |

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 [...]
Posted on January 28th 2010 |

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, [...]
Posted on January 24th 2010 |

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 [...]
Posted on January 14th 2010 |

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 [...]
Posted on January 11th 2010 |

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 [...]
Posted on July 10th 2009 |

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 [...]
Posted on June 22nd 2009 |

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 [...]
Posted on June 19th 2009 |

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 [...]
Posted on June 18th 2009 |

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 [...]
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