James Turley and Ben Lewis argue that there can be no short cuts to building the mass, Marxist student movement we need We would like to express our concern at the drift of some Communist Students comrades towards the highly ambiguous Anti-Capitalist Initiative project. We are both veterans of, and also members of the Communist Party ...
Last Saturday's launch of the Anti-Capitalist Initiative provided further evidence of an increasingly fractured, rightward-drifting left. Ben Lewis reports As I reported in last week’s Weekly Worker, bound up with the recent decamping of 15 younger comrades from Workers Power (British Section of the League for a Fifth International) is another far-left unity drive under the ...
Communist Students is preparing the ground for the kind of student movement we need, writes Ben Lewis Anybody who watches television or reads the newspapers will have noticed that these are not exactly the best of times for the capitalist class. Stock markets have crashed, the banking system nearly went into meltdown and unemployment, house repossessions ...