The left must organise on the basis of genuine democratic centralism, argues Ben Lewis Readers might be aware that Workers Power, the organisation which heads the League for a Fifth International (LFI), has recently suffered yet another split - its second haemorrhaging of cadre in the last six years. Around 15, predominantly younger comrades departed, reducing ...
Below is a letter which we emailed to both Another Education is Possible and Education Not for Sale on January 29. Dear comrades, we understand that Another Education is Possible and Education Not for Sale are in talks, along with Daf Adley (NUS LGBT Chair) and Bellavia Ribeiro-Addy (NUS Black students Chair), about the possiblity of standing ...
Communist Students will be at this Saturday's 'Another Education is Possible' conference. Dave Isaacson reports on the latest SWP front Since the end of its involvement in the Respect popular front, the Socialist Workers Party has looked rather lost. Without electoralism the SWP has no glue to hold its work together. The organisation's response to the ongoing ...
How should the left react to the financial crisis? Should we, asks James Turley, suspend our polemics against other left groups in order to forge a more effective response? It perhaps says something about the parlous state of today's far left that it takes a catastrophic crisis - either, in boom times, its promise or, currently, ...
John Pringle takes a light-hearted look at the failings of revolutionary groups Communism is a system only achievable by the most profound means, the overthrow of the existing social order and its replacement with another, as unrecognisably different as it is improved. Such an undertaking is vast and awe-inspiring. It is the act of a self-enslaved ...
Dave Isaacson replies to Sofie Buckland of the Alliance for Workers' Liberty It is to be welcomed that Sofie Buckland of the Alliance for Workers' Liberty has written a response to my article on student politics and the ...