Ed Miliband is being attacked from the right, argues James Turley. It is a commonplace these days that politics - like more or less everything else - has been ruined by spin and PR. The roll-call of villains and debacles is well storied: Alastair Campbell, Andy Coulson and even the makers of the dodgy Iraq dossier ...
James Turley replies to critics of the CPGB's project to transform the Labour Party. First published in the Weekly Worker. Two articles appeared in the last Weekly Worker which were sharply critical of the Communist Party of Great Britain's perspectives on work in the Labour Party. Comrade Dave Vincent objects to our reading of Labour's political ...
James Turley calls for a powerful workers’ movement needs to offer a real political lead in challenging the power of the capitalists As the last party conference season before the general election gets into full swing, all corners of bourgeois politics are singing from the same hymn sheet. And the music is troubling to the ears ...
James Turley agrees with offering No2EU conditional support but criticises the PCC’s call to vote Labour On June 4, the CPGB advised the world to vote Labour in the elections to the European parliament. That day’s Weekly Worker carried a lengthy article from Mike Macnair, extending the argument for this voting advice greatly beyond what we ...
Some 250 people packed into Conway Hall for the November 15 annual conference of the Labour Representation Committee. Ben Lewis looks at the key questions facing the Labour left Despite, for the most part, not getting much younger, those attending the LRC conference were certainly optimistic about the coming period. Talk was very upbeat about the ...
This month has seen the implementation of Home Office plans to make foreign students carry biometric ID cards and force lecturers to keep registers of their attendance. This has been framed as a response to the scandal over the 'bogus colleges', almost 300 of which were uncovered last year, through which applicants could obtain a ...
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 ...
Recognising a “crisis” in the NUS, last year’s annual NUS conference decided to conduct a “far ranging review of NUS’ governance”. Items that were supposed to be tackled included the lack of involvement of students in the NUS, the lack of any political culture and the financial viability of the organisation. The way in which this ...
John McDonnell campaign meeting 30th Oct, Victoria Hall, Sheffield, about 50 present The meeting was introduced by John Campbell, Labour councillor, chairman of Sheffield Trades Union Council and Sheffield UAF. The first speaker was Martin Mayer of the TGWU general council. He gave an unsurprising intro, telling us there was much anger at New Labour (really?), ...