Ben Lewis reports from last Friday's demonstration in London to oppose cuts in student grants. "You're lucky you're late, there was hardly anyone here at the time we were meant to start". This is how one member of the Socialist Worker's Party greeted me on arrival at the 'emergency' demonstration called by new SWP student ...
The SWP is touring the meeting 'Capitalism isn’t working- the case for socialism'. CS member Mohsen Sabbagh was there at the Sheffield stop on the 6th November. The number of people at the meeting was a pleasant surprise, the room packed to the rafters with around 70 people. Unfortunately, what they heard from the top table ...
Having brushed Student Respect under the carpet, the SWP launched their new student front on November 1st, on almost identical politics to Education Not for Sale. Dan Read and Dave Isaacson were there. CS proposals to conference- click here Another politics is possible- click here Most of the 150 or so student activists who gathered in London 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 ...
Initiated by the Socialist Worker Student Society, this conference looks to set up a project almost identical to Education Not for Sale. CS members will be there to argue for radical politics and democracy in the student movement- expect a report after the conference. Info from: www.anothereducationispossible.org.uk Building a Democratic Campaigning Student Movement As the impact of the ...
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 ...
James Turley argues that the left, rather than twisting words, must approach defeatism creatively This article stems from a too brief (as they always are for subjects as gravely important as this) discussion at a meeting addressed by the Hands Off the People of Iran campaign at the Socialist Workers Party's Marxism 2008. Though the meeting, held ...
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 ...
Imperialist threats against Iran have been stepped up once again, writes Communist Students member James Turley: Last July, during a Youtube debate, Barack Obama (now de facto official Democrat presidential candidate) promised he would talk to the leaders of what are perceived as anti-American states - Venezuela, Cuba and Iran among them. This rather mild pledge, in ...
Communist Students members Dave Isaacson and Ben Klein reject economism and put forward the case for Marxism: Left unity not on offer This weekend will, farcically, see two separate gatherings to discuss ‘left unity’ in the student movement. Firstly, the ‘Reclaim the Campus’ event on Saturday May 17, called by the Alliance for Workers’ Liberty-run Education Not ...
Vicky Thompson of Hands Off the People of Iran and Chris Strafford of Communist Students report.. 'Socialists' and the lies they tell They never fail to surprise. Every time you think the ‘Socialist’ Workers Party cannot sink any lower into the depths of blatant hypocrisy and opportunism, they somehow manage to dive a little deeper. Last week, we ...
As Israel's brutal blockade of the Gaza Strip continues and Palestinian despair intensifies, what should be the response of the left? By Ken Crisp The desperate suffering of the people of Palestine was again brought to the world's attention on January 23, as thousands of Palestinians broke through the border wall at the Rafah passage and ...