Alfred Stevens throws his two pence into the Callinicos / Penny debate. Think about the most popular chants that you heard on the student marches over the last year. Which ones rung out the loudest? If you were walking anywhere near myself on the 10th, 24th and 30th of November or 8th and 9th of December then ...
The long-awaited debate between Worker's Liberty patriarch Sean Matgamna, professed Zionist and opponent of troops out now, and Israeli socialist Moshe Machover (HOPI and CMP) finally happened on 12th October. The subject was 'Israel, the Palestinians, and Iran', though Matgamna studiously avoids any mention of Iran. The outrage caused by his recent article excusing an ...
On Sunday 12th October there will be a debate between Sean Matgamna (Worker's Liberty) and Moshe Machover (Campaign for a Marxist Party) on 'Israel, the Palestinians, and Iran'. Here we reprint a statement by the Communist Party of Great Britain: CPGBers are distributing this statement in response to an internal AWL background briefing distributed by Martin ...
James Turley argues that the left, rather than twisting words, must approach defeatism creatively This article stems from a too brief (as they always are for subjects as gravely important as this) discussion at a meeting addressed by the Hands Off the People of Iran campaign at the Socialist Workers Party's Marxism 2008. Though the meeting, held ...
Communist Students members have continued to be at the forefront of a debate over the nature of fascism; whether the BNP is fascist; and which anti-fascist tactics are most applicable in this period. This debate was recently one of the main topics for discussion at a CPGB members aggregate, and has continued to be fought ...
Is 'no platforming' an unshakable principle or a tactic? Ted North reports on the discussion among Communist Students The February 16 conference of Communist Students featured a debate on fascism and the tactics needed to defeat it. It was introduced by Ben Klein, who argued that we must start from the premise of independent working class politics ...
One of the most controversial debates in the run-up to the founding conference of Communist Students was on the question of fascism and the British National Party, and what the response of revolutionaries should be. The conference adopted a resolution highlighting the necessity of basing any anti-fascist fight on the "mobilisation of the working class ...
At the founding conference of Communist Students in Sheffield on Saturday December 9, some 20 comrades, most of them not members of the CPGB, were present. Ted North reports Tina Becker began the conference with a speech addressing ...