For the first time in English[1], an extract from Karl Kautsky's 'Republic and social democracy in France', translated by Ben Lewis Karl Kautsky: former 'pope' of Marxism The International Congress[2] has had an unexpected aftermath. Following a series of statements they made in Amsterdam, Bebel[3]and Guesde[4] have been accused of indifference to the republic, even of a ...
Commodification is wrecking higher education, argues Yassamine Mather. First printed in the Weekly Worker and republished here for comrades' interest. In October 2010 Lord Browne published his independent review into higher education funding and student finance in England - the latest in a long list of such proposals since 1979. It recommended changes to ...
James Turley replies to critics of the CPGB's project to transform the Labour Party. First published in the Weekly Worker. Two articles appeared in the last Weekly Worker which were sharply critical of the Communist Party of Great Britain's perspectives on work in the Labour Party. Comrade Dave Vincent objects to our reading of Labour's political ...
The defeat of Clare Solomon offers us a snapshot of the student movement, argues Ben Lewis. First published in the Weekly Worker. Elections can be used as a barometer of the class struggle and an insight into the health of our own forces. Notwithstanding the peculiar dynamics within the world of student politics, this ...
Communist Students convened in Manchester for its annual conference on April 2. Greg Compton reports Communist Students was formed on the initiative of student members and supporters of the Communist Party of Great Britain, nearly five years ago. We were, then as now, concerned that the far left was offering very slim pickings to radicals on ...
James Tansey critiques Ian McKay’s Property is Theft! A Pierre-Joseph Proudhon Anthology “...the triumph of opportunism within Italy and the Communist International... show[ed] that the doctrine of self-sufficient factory councils (with their own little self-contained revolutions), was a very dangerous starting point; as indeed was the illusion that communist victory was assured as soon as individual ...
Those who are waiting for a 'pure' opposition will wait forever, writes James Turley (first published in the Weekly Worker) Friends: Tony Blair and Muammar Gaddafi In my last article, I attacked those on the left who imagined that the imperialist intervention in Libya was, or could be, somehow to the profit of the masses of that country.[1] ...
Chris Strafford takes issue with the CPGB's aim of transforming the Labour Party The Labour Party represents a particular challenge for the revolution in Britain. It is to the detriment of any Marxist to ignore the fight to supersede it and replace it with a Communist Party. At present there is no wave of workers ...
On Thursday March 31st the Socialist Workers Party held a public meeting in the Showroom Cinema in Sheffield, to lay out their perspectives for the direction of the workers' movement in the aftermath of the massive TUC-organised protest against cuts in London on March 26th. Around fifty people attended, about half of whom were evidently ...
James Turley reports on a good day in the fight to build resistance to the coalition's austerity (first published in the Weekly Worker) There can be nobody attending Saturday’s mass demonstration against the cuts who left feeling despondent or pessimistic. The official attendance estimate is in the region of 250,000, with Socialist Worker claiming “well over half ...
Tuesday 22nd and Thursday 24th saw a nationwide strike by lecturers from the UCU union protesting attacks on their pensions and higher education. Here at Manchester Metropolitan University members of Communist Students were at the picket lines on Thursday morning, to show solidarity with lecturers in their ongoing struggle against management. The MET, being a ...
As the tenth anniversary of 9.11 and the war in Afghanistan approaches , Stop the War is organising a day event to assess the damage done by the War on Terror, the impact of challenges to US global power and the likelihood of further wars.
Where: Westminster Abbey (map) Description: Baked bean protest at Royal Wedding.