The public sector strike victory has been won despite, not because of, the SACP, writes Peter Manson As I write, the two-week South African public sector strike that has particularly hit schools and hospitals is on the verge of being settled. Over a million workers belonging to unions affiliated to the Congress ...
James Turley brings down some false hares raised during the crisis over MPs' scams If any MP had entertained the naive hope that the expenses crisis was going to blow over with a few well chosen platitudes, they have now been decisively disappointed. On May 19, the speaker of the House of Commons, Michael Martin, announced his ...
Darya Homan slates Povey's Shah Abbas encomium Writing in The Guardian on May 13, the Socialist Workers Party’s favourite Iranian, Elaheh Rostami Povey, described a blood-drenched 16th century ruler of Persia as “inspirational”. Cooing over Shah Abbas I (1571-1629) as a “visionary”, Povey says that “under his rule Iran became a great political power, transforming international trade and ...
Ted North reviews Martin Smith's Why ‘British jobs for British workers’ won’t solve the crisis: why we need jobs for all Socialist Workers Party, 2009, pp26, £1.50 To be fair to Martin Smith, his short pamphlet gives some useful facts ...
Nationalise drug companies under democratic control, says James Turley The British media has managed to get itself into yet another incredible panic over a viral contagion. Having stubbornly failed to be devastated by severe acute respiratory ...
Police thugs randomly searched and brutalised G20 protesters. Chris Strafford reports The G20 summit saw thousands of people protest outside the Bank of England on April 1. The demonstration was called by a variety of groups under the banner of G20 Meltdown. From early on the police had protesters hemmed in a ‘kettle’, which restricted access, compacted the ...
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 ...
Film of Behrooz Karimizadeh and Kaveh Abbasian's Press Conference in London Mark Fischer heard two of Iran's student activists talk of persecution and imprisonment - from WW 739 A well-attended press conference in central London on September 29 saw two student activists from the Equality and Freedom Seeking Students in Iran describe their experiences at ...
Here we republish two letters concerning Communist Students attitude towards the 'Reclaim the Campus' conference which re-launched the Education Not for Sale front of the Alliance for Workers Liberty. These letters appeared first in the Weekly Worker. Absurd I write in astonishment at the absurdity of Ben Klein’s article, ‘Rebranding exercise flops’ (May 22). As part of ...
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 ...
Dave Isaacson reports on the January 13 launch conference of Socialist Youth Network, the Labour Representation Committee’s youth organisation, at the University of London Union The conference started with an opening speech from John McDonnell. He ...