Politics is becoming polarised in austerity Europe. We must empower the working class with a revolutionary perspective, says Callum Williamson The results from the first round of voting in the French presidential elections were another indication of a growing rage against the liberal-capitalist political establishment, a rage which the populist right has been the most successful ...
All that was once certain now melts As John Rees launches his long awaited war on the central committee, both factions of the SWP leadership are coming under fire from sections of the membership. Weekly Worker editor Peter Manson reports According to Socialist Workers Party veteran John Molyneux, “a significant democratic upsurge is taking place in the ...
Lindsey German has declared ‘war’ on the SWP central committee majority, as John Rees prepares to fight back. Editor of the Weekly Worker Peter Manson reports on the burgeoning crisis The Socialist Workers Party leadership has continued the process of disempowering its former number one, John Rees, by recommending that he be removed from the central ...
The current issue of the Weekly Worker, paper of the CPGB, features reports on several left conferences which have taken place recently: Rightist politics and wishful thinking The Socialist Party-sponsored Campaign for a New Workers' Party is just about treading water, writes Peter Manson. But that does not stop the SP from claiming that the fight for a ...
Meetings at the SWP’s Marxism school, organised by CPGB, Campaign for a Marxist Party, and Hands Off the People of Iran: Birkbeck College, Malet Street, London WC1 All meetings start 17:00 Friday July 4 - Room 541 Manifesto of the Campaign for a Marxist Party - pre-launch meeting Hillel Ticktin and Mike Macnair introduce themes to be explored ...
Communist Students member James Turley sees little prospect of future success for Socialist Action and Respect: When the Respect (un)popular front split last autumn, it provided something of a parlour game for the rest of the left - which fragment would collapse first? The Socialist Workers Party was seriously rocked internally by the nakedly apolitical nature of ...
Jim Grant recounts the last few acts of another left tragedy The in-house student organisation of Respect, nattily named Student Respect, turned out to have had a significant role in the terminal crisis within its host body. It’s worth reminding ourselves of SR’s history. Student Respect was formed in summer 2005, essentially by the SWP ‘turning over’ ...
First published in Communist Student no.3- click on pics to go to group's website Student Respect/Socialist Worker Student Society: In all probability the largest student group (although that’s not saying much), you will find them everywhere telling you that things such as war and islamophobia are - get this - really bad. Secretly run by: The Socialist Workers ...
Since issue No1 of this publication members of Communist Students have been involved in a number of events and activities. In November we distributed copies of Communist Student on national demonstrations against top-up fees and climate change. In December we took the message of communism and democracy to the Student Respect national conference. Our comrade Ben Lewis ...
Dave Isaacson reports from the so-called ‘conference’ of Student Respect, which attracted no more than 80 people - a reflection of the state of the organisation nationally On Sunday December 3 Student Respect held its conference at the ...
On his talk on ‘Education in the neoliberal world’, Rob Owen of the SWP gave a good description of the changing nature of university education over the last 20-30 years. He was, however, somewhat optimistic in his ...
Dave Isaacson reports on the forthcoming 'conference' of Student Respect On Sunday December 3 Student Respect holds its conference in London’s School of African and Oriental Studies. The college staff tell us that the main room booked for ...
The left in the student movement needs a cultural revolution. That is what Communist Students is in business to fight for, writes Ellie James The lead-up to the October 29 student demo against fees in central London has seen the NUS left busying itself with the usual sort of petty factional squabbles that discredit it in ...