Rease Higgs responds to the AWL’s defence of its behaviour over ‘comrade Alpha’ Predictably, my article highlighting the Alliance for Workers’ Liberty’s opportunist and hypocritical behaviour in the National Campaign Against Fees and Cuts last week,1 triggered an immediate response. Ed Maltby, an executive committee member, was told to talk privately to those who appeared troubled by ...
Rather than relying on bureaucratic solutions, argues James Turley, the left needs a dynamic approach to the media (first published in the Weekly Worker) Prior to the outrage in Norway, the news agenda had been dominated by the phone-hacking scandal, and the chaos into which it pitched the entire establishment. The left press was no exception. The ...
Laurie Smith reports on a split in the student anti-cuts movement. (first published in the Weekly Worker) The Alliance for Workers’ Liberty and Workers Power have vied for influence in the National Campaign Against Fees and Cuts (NCAFC) since its formation over a year ago, but their tense marriage of convenience appears to ...
Sinead Rylance surveys the current state of the student left. After nearly a year of National Campaign Against Fees and Cuts (NCAFC), and with a year facing us that will prove to be very relevant to the group’s stated aims, it seems appropriate to look at their future and their effect on the student movement. NCAFC ...
Laurie Smith 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, ...
Dave Isaacson argues for a united revolutionary student organisation On Saturday February 6 student activists from across the country will be attending the National Convention Against Fees and Cuts hosted by University College London Students for Free Education. The organisers have written that the convention “aims to strengthen and broaden the campaigns against cuts, and for ...
James Turley welcomes the declarations supporting the masses in Iran but warns against fake anti-imperialism Hal Draper’s excellent pamphlet, The two souls of socialism, ends with a challenge: “When the demonstrations and boycotts of the southern negroes threatened to embarrass president [Lyndon] Johnson as he faced an election, the question was: which side are you on? ...
by Laurie Smith Alliance for Worker's Liberty members have been trying to smuggle their poisonous pro-imperialist politics into the Sheffield occupation for Gaza. For those not in the know, the AWL are a small Marxist group bureaucratically controlled by the dear leader Sean Matgamna and a close circle around him. Uniquely on the left, they refuse ...
The AWL are pushing for a new student's union now they can no longer play ball in NUS- but could only get 12 people to a meeting. Ben Lewis reports... The Alliance for Workers’ Liberty student group, like the organisation more generally, appears to be somewhat at a loose end. Their chauvinistic rightism on the question ...
Has the Alliance for Workers’ Liberty lost its marbles? Ben Lewis (CS) and Mark Fischer (CPGB) ponder the evidence You may wonder what sort of day people in the Alliance for Workers’ Liberty had on February 27. Was it perhaps a frenetic whirl of buzzing activity, as comrades prepared for a huge new campaigning effort? Did ...
The left's sub-minimum programmes have led to a bureaucrats' victory, writes Boz Cirrik After protracted birth pangs, the National Union of Students has finally passed its governance review under the 'inspirational' presidency of Wes Streeting. The package achieved infamy among student left activists for the comprehensive manner in which it destroyed what remained of NUS democracy. ...
On Thursday the AWL held a public meeting in Sheffield to launch their 'New Workers Plan' in response to the current economic crisis. The meeting was attended by about 15 individuals, 10 of whom were AWL members/supporter, and 5 HOPI members (CS/PR and Mike Martin). Tom Unterrainer presented a 40 minute speech about the current ...
By Nick Jones The emancipation of women has long been of importance and controversy for Marxists. It is necessary to critically examine those attempts on the left to champion an ‘anti-capitalist feminism’ as the solution to this form of oppression, as expressed most recently by the Alliance for Workers’ Liberty’s front organisation, Feminist Fightback. It is crucial ...