From Protest to Power
Leaflet distributed in Manchester today during the national day of protest against tuition fees and education cuts.
Tag Archives: strategy
Some thoughts on the proposed charter of the Communist Workers of Iran
Ben Lewis welcomes the initiative of Communist Workers of Iran and offers some fraternal criticisms We welcome the political platform of the Communist Workers of Iran (CWI). We have proofed and edited the English text and are publishing it in the hope that, at a time when the Iranian masses are on the move once more, ...
What is the ‘united front’?
Both on the student left and the more generally, the 'united front' is often used as a way of justifying this or that opportunistic turn. We hear it constantly from the Socialist Workers' Party when it discusses setting up and doing work around campaigns like Unite Against Fascism (which in reality are more like popular ...
Mahmoud Salehi on the capitalist crisis
Iranian worker activist Mahmoud Salehi has released the following statement on the capitalist crisis. While some in Communist Students will disagree with his characterisation of the Paris Commune as a workers' council, his general argument - that this is a crisis of capitalism as a system, and that it necessitates serious strategic thinking about how to ...
Return to Marx
James Turley reviews Mike Macnair's Revolutionary strategy November publications, 2008, pp204, £7.99 The last two decades have seen momentous and epochal shifts in world politics, taking in the fall of the Stalinist countries, the emergence of China as a serious force on the world market - and the almost total obliteration of the far left. The anti-globalisation ...