Elementary workplace struggles demand to be generalised, writes James Turley The British Airways dispute is the most recent of a whole series of strikes in which workers have been forced to resist attacks on their wages, conditions and indeed their jobs. The three-day walkout by BA cabin crew over March 20-22 took place despite the agreement ...
A meeting to discuss the ongoing economic crisis, capitalism in decline and the necessity of socialism. Leading trade union militants will be outlining the fights going on within the trade unions to ensure the fightback against cuts, unemployment and poverty pay is effective. Location: University of Manchester Students' Union, Oxford Road Speakers include: Lee Rock (National Secretary, PCS Independent Left) Peter ...
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 bailout package for the big three car manufacturers in the US is stalled -for now, writes James Turley The economic crisis continues to deepen, particularly in the country at its epicentre, the USA. On December 12, the US Senate failed to pass an emergency bail-out fund of $14 billion, billed as a “bridging loan” to ...
Behrooz Karimizadeh, one of the prominent leaders of the student movement in Iran, who has recently been released after enduring over four months of imprisonment and torture at the hands of the Iranian security forces; Kaveh Abbasian, the spokesperson for the Freedom and Equality Seeking Students in Iran, who was subjected to months of persecution, ...
Ben Lewis reports on a successful intervention At last week’s Trade Union Congress in Brighton, a small group of activists handed out Hands Off the People of Iran leaflets and other material, spoke to delegates and visitors, and all in all highlighted the current drive to war against Iran and the tasks of the solidarity movement ...
Ben Lewis reports on the launch of a new trade union coordinating group at a fringe meeting at last week’s Trades Union Congress One of the most interesting fringe meetings I attended at last week’s TUC was undoubtedly the launch of a new group in order to “coordinate the campaigning activities of our trade unions on ...
Serious rethink needed - not platitudes, writes Chris Strafford The forthcoming Convention of the Left (CL) - organised in Manchester as a ‘counter-conference’ to the Labour Party’s annual gathering from September 20-24 - has been touted by some as the first step towards yet another halfway house unity project. Unfortunately, we all know that principled unity has ...
Ben Lewis spoke to a leading member of Iranian Students for Freedom and Equality Could you tell us about your organisation’s history and political aims? Iranian Students for Freedom and Equality was first established about five years ago, after it was clear that the Iranian reformists around people like Khatami had been unsuccessful in their aims and ...
First published in the Weekly Worker 732 Yassamine Mather demolishes the AWL leader's falsehoods... and CS member Ben Lewis was present when the AWL set up yet another posing front group In Iran there is a saying used when someone makes a comment based on a number of falsehoods, leading to an even sillier conclusion. It ...
First published in the Weekly Worker 732 There should be no place for Sean Matgamna in any principled Marxist organisation, write CS member James Turley and Mark Fischer After his article in Solidarity of July 24, it should be axiomatic that Sean Matgamna - the loose-cannon patriach of the Alliance for Workers' Liberty - be expelled from ...
Iran and imperialism Yassamine Mather from Hands Off The People Of Iran speaks on Iran and imperialism at Communist University North on May 3 2008. What is the Marxist programme? A debate between Mike Macnair of the Communist Party of Great Britain and Mark Hoskisson of Permanent Revolution. Mike opens the discussion and is then followed by Mark. ...
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 ...