Three CPGB members, two also members of Communist Students attended the Friday June 17th rally organised by the Sheffield Anti-Cuts Alliance (SACA), where rebellious Labour MP John McDonnell was the keynote speaker. Over 150 people turned out, and it was one of those rare occasions when most of the Marxist left in Sheffield could be ...
Are the main players in TUSC really interested in building the biggest left alternative at the election? Dave McAllister of Communist Students and the CPGB wonders what they're afraid of As residents of Walthamstow, myself and two other CPGB comrades were keen to get involved in the election campaign of Nancy Taaffe, member of the Socialist ...
The Socialist Party's 'Socialism 2009' event had a session on young people. Laurie Smith reports and asks what politics the working class needs In the session on ‘Young people: the fight for a future’, a rather small audience of 10 comrades was addressed by Ben Robinson of SPEW’s Youth Fight for Jobs campaign and Tracy Edwards, ...
No straightforward ‘yes’ or ‘no’ to open borders at Sheffield No2EU meeting, reports Mohsen Sabbagh On Thursday May 28 members of the Socialist Party in England and Wales held a public meeting for No2EU’s European election campaign in Sheffield. Heading the No2EU list for Yorkshire and Humberside is Keith Gibson, a GMB militant who was involved in ...
This is the text of a leaflet we issued at the founding conference of Youth Fight for Jobs on Saturday May 9, which was attended by about 100 comrades. A small report will follow in due course. One manifestation of the capitalist crisis is in the jobs market. According to the government's own statistic the claimant ...
After the victory of the wildcat strike at the Lindsey refinery, James Turley draws some lessons Let us begin with the story so far. On January 28, 800 workers at Lindsey oil refinery in Killingholme walked out illegally. They were protesting against the ‘dumping’ of 200 workers of Italian and Portuguese origin in order to fulfil ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...