The central committee brushed differences under the carpet at the Socialist Workers Party annual conference. James Turley reports If Ed Miliband were to be pressed into stepping down from the Labour leadership and the shadow cabinet announced that the top job should go to Alan Johnson, one would expect Labour Party members to ...
Please see the motion which is being put forward for debate at the last session of the conference. 1. After “our task is to build this resistance”, insert: “We must rally our forces to combat the cuts and the ideology that promotes them. At all times we must articulate our ...
Laurie Smith sees the question of unity being further depoliticised. The May 22 Right to Work campaign meeting at Friends Meeting House in central London was a big success organisationally. Over 600 attended. They were, however, in the main, members of the Socialist Workers Party, although ex-SWPers Chris Nineham and Lindsey German, who are now part ...
Saturday October 17 2009 Manchester University Student Union, Oxford Road Meeting Room 1, 10am - 6pm Capitalism is in its deepest crisis since the 1930s. The world is at an historic turning point. The crisis comes at an enormous human cost – soaring unemployment, house repossessions, wage cuts and attacks on basic services and social security provision. The ...
Saturday 4th April 2009 - Sunday 5th April 2009 A protest is being organised outside the NATO conference in Strasbourg, France marking the 60th anniversary of NATO. Anti-war groups from across the world will meet to oppose any further expansion of NATO and demand an end to the occupation of Afghanistan. The organisers have just announced that Noam ...
Delegates at the recent PCS union's annual conference voted overwhelmingly to affiliate to the Hands Off the People of Iran campaign. This is fantastic news for the campaign and will hopefully open up opportunities for the campaign to win further serious support from the working class movement. There is a similar motion supporting HOPI which ...
James Turley looks at the prospects for Education Not for Sale's 'Reclaim the Campus' event: Unlike the forced good cheer emanating from the Socialist Workers Party, the response of Education Not for Sale to the narrow defeat of the National Union of Students governance review has at least had a touch of sobriety: “The left should ...
by Nick Jones The Socialist Youth Network (SYN), the Labour Representation Committee’s (LRC) youth organisation, met at the University of London Union on the 29th March for its annual conference. It has been over a year since the last SYN conference. Readers may remember that Owen Jones, Co-Chair of SYN conference last year, had perused ...
Delegates at the National Union of Teachers' conference voted yesterday to "support teachers and schools in opposing Ministry of Defence recruitment activities that are based upon misleading propaganda". The motion also called for the immediate withdrawal of troops from Iraq and Afghanistan, and for protests if there is any attack on Iran. Check out these ...