Last Saturday's launch of the Anti-Capitalist Initiative provided further evidence of an increasingly fractured, rightward-drifting left. Ben Lewis reports As I reported in last week’s Weekly Worker, bound up with the recent decamping of 15 younger comrades from Workers Power (British Section of the League for a Fifth International) is another far-left unity drive under the ...
The IMT is beginning to grapple with the problems of sectarianism and bureaucratic centralism. The 'Towards a New International Tendency' statement marks a step forward, notes James Turley The International Marxist Tendency - which in 1992 split from the Militant Tendency and its Committee for a Workers’ International over the issue of whether to ...
Dave Isaacson argues for a united revolutionary student organisation On Saturday February 6 student activists from across the country will be attending the National Convention Against Fees and Cuts hosted by University College London Students for Free Education. The organisers have written that the convention “aims to strengthen and broaden the campaigns against cuts, and for ...
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 ...
This year's Marxism felt rather flat, writes CS executive member Ben Klein. Despite the positive spin that invariably accompanies any Socialist Workers Party event, it was a disappointment, not least in terms of the numbers attending (this was first published in the Weekly Worker 729, which also carries a longer report of Marxism and a report ...
In moves to sideline any criticism of the Iranian regime within the anti-war movement, Communist Students and Hands Off the People Of Iran (Hopi) have been barred from the Stop the War Coalition. Benjamin Klein calls for all principled anti-imperialists and democrats to fight this exclusion and to raise the banner of genuine internationalism Andrew Murray, ...
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’ ...
Statement by the CS executive on Jim Padmore's resignation We were puzzled and disappointed to read of Jim Padmore’s decision not to take his place on the Communist Students executive. Puzzled, because his stated reasons do not make much sense. He writes ...
Weekly Worker ‘my favourite’ Tony Benn was one of three Labour Party politicians who addressed conference as guest speakers. His introductory speech was fairly standard, noting the warmongering, anti-working class policies of New Labour. He said New ...
James Padmore, elected unopposed to the executive of Communist Students, has sent this letter: I was unable to attend the Communist Students conference in December but, based on the report in the Weekly Worker, it seems that it ...
Members of the Socialist Workers Party tried to throw CPGB students out of a public meeting. Dave Isaacson reports In the past week, as well as continuing to sign people up at various freshers fairs, Communist Students groups ...