Politics is becoming polarised in austerity Europe. We must empower the working class with a revolutionary perspective, says Callum Williamson The results from the first round of voting in the French presidential elections were another indication of a growing rage against the liberal-capitalist political establishment, a rage which the populist right has been the most successful ...
Harley Filben reviews Sean Birchall's 'Beating the fascists: The untold story of Anti-Fascist Action' Freedom Press, London 2010, pp413, £15 (first published in the Weekly Worker) This book appears at an interesting time, given its subject matter. The historical narrative it lays out - the rise of militant anti-fascism from the ...
James Turley sees SWP politics reduced to ultra-shrill self-parody It has been a busy week for the Socialist Workers Party - the largest and most visible far-left group in Britain today. Its members and periphery formed the biggest part of Saturday’s demo against the Afghanistan war, as well as the bulk of Thursday’s shrill protest at ...
James Turley reviews Nigel Copsey’s Contemporary British fascism Palgrave Macmillan, 2007, pp264, £19.99 The rise and rise of the British National Party is a source of much consternation in contemporary Britain, among bourgeois society and the left alike. The BNP is viewed as a fascist interloper, sneaking into ‘mainstream’ politics with murderous intent. Yet there is remarkably ...
Calls for state, local government and BBC censorship and bans will inevitably backfire against the workers’ movement, argues Ben Lewis Doubtless bolstered by the British National Party’s recent electoral success, there has been a rise in far-right street mobilisations, leading to tussles with the police, Muslim youth and left activists, including those from Unite Against Fascism. ...
We feature here two videos of sessions from Communist University where members of Communist Students gave the introductory opening talks. To see which other videos are available, please visit the CPGB's Vimeo video channel at: http://vimeo.com/cpgb 'Capitalism's crisis: how do we organise?' Ben Lewis of Communist Students and the CPGB speaks alongside Hillel Ticktin, Moshe Machover and ...
The continued rise of the British National Party raises key questions about the left’s strategy. Ben Lewis takes a look at the Socialist Workers Party’s analysis and argues for a root-and-branch rethink The election of BNP leader Nick Griffin and acolyte Andrew Brons to the European parliament has been endlessly reported in both the bourgeois media ...
Below is an article by a Liverpool Postal Worker on the growing refusal of CWU members to deliver BNP material for the upcoming European elections. Postal workers across the country are once again refusing to deliver BNP European Election leaflets. The national press are telling readers that this is because staff who deliver to areas ...
Reactionary ideas are the ideas that allow the right to do its job, writes James Turley British voters have before them the first major election since the onset of the economic crisis, when June’s European parliament ballot rolls around. The Labour Party anticipates a drubbing, short of a miracle between now and June, and much has been ...
James Turley asks why the working class should have any confidence in the protection of the bourgeois state It is perhaps the biggest cock-up in the British National Party’s recent history. Britain’s largest far-right group has been damaged by a number of shock documentaries that suggest the party’s core remains more enthusiastic about Hitler than its PR ...
The article below was written for the last edition of Communist Student. Unfortunately we didn't have the space to include it and a number of other articles in the print edition. It is written by a member of Permanent Revolution and author of the blog Infantile and Disorderly. I expect that it will prompt some ...
Here are some interesting things to read from around the blogosphere: Vicky T of the Hands Off the People of Iran steering committee has recently set up her own blog, 'Infantile and Disorderly,' so check it out. Over at 'The Storm Breaking Upon the University' there is an interesting article on academic freedom and the case of ...
A statement from the Communist Student Exec: Communist Students would like to extend our solidarity to the Education Not For Sale (ENS) supporter who was attacked by far right thugs on Friday 30th May in Huddersfield. She was attacked because of her prominent role at the students union and her vocal support of No Platform for ...