Wednesday 25 Free Education Demonstration: Educate, Agitate, Organise! Around 600 students gathered at SOAS University to demand free education and a living grant for all. Although numbers were slightly lower than had been initially expected, it was very encouraging to see students turn out in such numbers in an action that was organised completely independently of ...
The left's sub-minimum programmes have led to a bureaucrats' victory, writes Boz Cirrik After protracted birth pangs, the National Union of Students has finally passed its governance review under the 'inspirational' presidency of Wes Streeting. The package achieved infamy among student left activists for the comprehensive manner in which it destroyed what remained of NUS democracy. ...
At a National Union of Students extraordinary conference yesterday, the NUS leadership got what they have been wanting for some time. They have gutted NUS of the bulk of its already pitifully cramped internal democracy; after the passing of the governance review by a two-thirds majority at a previous extraordinary conference on November 12 2008, ...
As the Socialist Workers Party’s annual conference looms, James Turley urges SWPers to settle accounts with the enemies of democracy and principle The Socialist Workers Party faces its most important annual conference this month. Long-time leading light John Rees and his closest allies, Lindsey German and Chris Nineham, are at loggerheads with the central committee majority ...
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 ...
On 27 November, the much beleaguered Manchester SWP held a meeting titled ‘The Capitalist Crisis; the case for Socialism’ which managed to attract around 40 to 50 people, around a third of whom were their own comrades. A small turnout considering the amount of posters that went up across Manchester. They would have had more ...
This Saturday will see student activists come together for a conference called 'Another Education is possible' (for some background and analysis see the article 'Another politics is possible'. Here are the proposals we in Communist Students sent off this morning: Amendment: No war on Iran (223 words) The global economic crisis has made world imperialism more belligerent, ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Here are some interesting things to read from around the blogosphere: Vicky T of the Hands Off the People of Iran steering committee has recently set up her own blog, 'Infantile and Disorderly,' so check it out. Over at 'The Storm Breaking Upon the University' there is an interesting article on academic freedom and the case of ...
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 ...