The Communist Party and the General Election

There has been some speculation in the blogosphere on the role of the Communist Party of Britain in the successor initiative to NO2EU and standing candidates in the general election.
The article below is a report on last weekend’s meeting of the CPB Executive Commitee.
It appeared in today’s Morning Star. It also appears on the [...]

Christine Bucholz: Revolutionary in the Bundestag

One of the newly elected members of the Bundestag for Die Linke is Christine Buchholz.
She is a Die Linke acitivist in Hesse and is a supporter of Marx21, a network that was formerly the Linksruck orgasnisation, connected to the SWP in this country.
The success of Die Linke in the recent elections was stunning, but the [...]

“Make Capitalism History” dielinke.SDS

This weekend DieLinke.SDS, the student organisation of Die Linke is having a conference “Make Capitalsim History”. I thought the video was rather nicely done.
For the Make Capitalism History site click here
For the Die Linke.SDS click here
For their Youtube channel click here

Indefinite Strike at Tower Hamlets College

Teaching staff at Tower Hamlets College have gone on all-out indefinite strike against 13 compulsory redundancies in the English as a Second Language Department.
This will also mean the cutting of the number of places on ESOL courses from 3,000 to 2,000. Tower Hamlets has got one of the highest proportions of speakers [...]

Refinery workers set to strike again

Refinery workers organised by the GMB and Unite have been balloting for industrail action and look set to strike. Obviously the militancy displayed  earlier in the yet is continuing.
To find out more check out the article in today’s Guardian here

Rob Griffiths “Seizing the left initiative”

An interesting article by Rob Griffiths, General Secretary of the Communist Party of Britian, recently appeared in the Morning Star discussing how the left should respond to the crisis. Of particular interest are his thoughts on the forthcoming general election and the Labour Party.
The British ruling class is preparing a massive, wide-scale and co-ordinated offensive [...]

Whitey on the Moon

Today the first men on the Moon met America’s first black President at the White House.

Irish Greens vote to back Lisbon Treaty

Contrary to how it may seem at the moment this blog was not created to attack the Greens, though there have been a number of articles critical of them on it recently.
We will be posting other material, but this one just popped up in the Morning Star today, and just couldn’t be ignored: The Irish [...]

“The Iran upheaval – what do socialists say?” Ian Donovan

Below is the text for a talk that Ian Donovan gave at a meeting in Birmingham and for Southwark Respect.

Originally when I was asked to do this presentation, I was planning to speak about the history of the Iranian revolution and the Islamic republic, where it came from, to help people understand where it [...]

“Left unity and Class Politics” by Ian Donovan

This is a contribution to the debate about the results of the European and local elections by Ian Donovan.
The analysis of the Euro Elections by Salma Yaqoob (Statement on the euro-election results, 8th June), makes a number of pertinent observations about the reasons for the disaster of the BNP’s winning two seats in the European [...]