CS member Ben Lewis was invited to the Durham Union Debating Society to debate the above motion with various establishment thinkers (and the Stalinist Harpal Brar). These are the edited notes for his speech1. Even a cursory glance around our world is enough to see it is in serious trouble. Many of the tensions and contradictions ...
Manchester CS public meeting 6pm, Thursday 29th September Cameron Committee Room on 3rd floor of MMU What began with a 'few bad apples' in the finance sector has been revealed as a full-blown crisis of global capitalism, and the working class is being made to pay. What are the particular features of this crisis, and how can communists ...
No candidate to replace the USA exists or looks likely to arise, writes James Turley. First published in the Weekly Worker. In recent years, there have been no end of occasions for military strategists to wonder what, exactly, the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation is actually for. It used to be pretty obvious: with the Soviet ...
James Tansey critiques Ian McKay’s Property is Theft! A Pierre-Joseph Proudhon Anthology “...the triumph of opportunism within Italy and the Communist International... show[ed] that the doctrine of self-sufficient factory councils (with their own little self-contained revolutions), was a very dangerous starting point; as indeed was the illusion that communist victory was assured as soon as individual ...
Shot at the CS educational on Sunday 2nd: CS member Chris Strafford presents his take on the crisis, and discusses how to understand, explain and agitate around the current crisis of capitalism.
What are the causes of the current crisis, and how should communists respond? CS member Chris Strafford will be presenting his take on the depression, and we will be discussing how to understand, explain and agitate around the current crisis of capitalism. All welcome. Starts 10:30am, Sunday 2nd November. Central London. Venue TBC. Contact Ben for more info: ...
Richard Wolff a professor of economics at UMass Amherst talks on the current "financial" crisis and capitialism in general. A form of socialism is presented as a possible alternative. This talk was presented by the Asociation for Economic and Social Analysis and the journal Rethinking Marxism.
James Turley looks at Iceland, a country flirting with bankruptcy Of all the myriad narratives thrown up by the credit crisis, one stands out: a tale of entire countries going bust, Russian loans and even - bizarrely - British ‘anti-terrorism’ legislation. That story is the peculiar downfall of a nation at the periphery of the European financial ...
At our meeting on Wednesday October 15 the London Communist Students branch decided to embark on a study of volume 1 of Marx's classic text on political economy: Capital. We will be be dedicating the main part of London Communist Students meetings every second week to this study. The first of these meetings will be ...
CS spoke to Hillel Ticktin, editor of Critique, about the ‘credit crunch’ and what it tells us about the dynamics of capitalism today You have described the latest capitalist downturn as a “turning point” for capitalism as a whole, which is in some ways similar to 1929. Can you expand on this? In fact, one can read ...