“The workers... battle-cry must be: 'The Permanent Revolution.'” — Marx and Engels, 1850
Tue 30, September 2008 @ 22:38
Across the borough and beyond, campaigners and trade unionists are having to confront continuing attacks on both our public services and on our living standards. In Lewisham:
Tue 30, September 2008 @ 20:26
Members of the Marxist Radical Forum, including myself,
were hugely excited at the turn out of our first ever meeting, “Sex
and the Revolution”. 60 people attended with two speakers from the
English Collective of Prostitutes and one from the International
Union of Sex Workers...writes Vicky Thompson....
Tue 30, September 2008 @ 20:12
Wednesday 1st October
University of Manchester Students' Union - Meeting Room 2
Starts at 6pm
Tue 30, September 2008 @ 10:30
The failure of the US Congress to pass the Emergency Economic
Stabilization Act of 2008 has brought the crisis of the western
financial markets into a new and more dangerous phase, says
KeithHarvey
Sun 28, September 2008 @ 13:17
Speakers include: Ian Gibson MP, Jane Loftus (CWU), Mark Serwotka (PCS)
Fri 26, September 2008 @ 20:49
40 people attended the inaugural meeting yesterday (25th September) of Manchester’s new Campaign for Free Public Transport. Participants including members of the Campaign against Climate Change, Friends of the Earth, The Green Party, Respect, The SWP, the Socialist Party and the Community Action Party, together with bus workers, cycling and railway activists, and non-aligned members of the public.
Fri 26, September 2008 @ 19:49
Wednesday, October 8, 2008 - 7:30pm - 9:30pm Indian YMCA, 41 Fitzroy Square, London.
Fri 26, September 2008 @ 17:16
Between
November and December 2006 the bodies of five murdered women were
discovered in Ipswich, Suffolk. All of the women were prostitutes
or sex workers from the local area. In the media furore surrounding
the gruesome discoveries, traditional stereotypes of prostitutes
spread like wild fire....
...
Fri 26, September 2008 @ 12:45
As Washington's financial and political leaders haggle over the terms of a system-wide bail-out of the banks, Keith Harvey says the stakes are high but that a socialist and revolutionary solution offers the most realistic way out of the present chaos
Thu 25, September 2008 @ 17:41
The next meeting of the Campaign against Climate Change Trade Union Group will be at 11am on Sunday 5th October in ULU.
Item 1 will start with a general discussion about what sort of conference we want and will then go on to the specific details such as date, venue, guest speakers etc.
For Item 2, please bring ideas for motions that could be submitted via union branches for the 2009 conference season.
Thu 25, September 2008 @ 17:37
You article in last week’s Weekly Worker declared in
advance that the Convention of the Left (CoL) would be a “talking
shop” aimed at adopting a few “platitudes”. This was a very
negative approach, one which seemed to inform your attitude on the
weekend....writes Stuart King....
Wed 24, September 2008 @ 12:56
After last weekend's demo against racists in Cologne in Germany, the website Marxist.com criticised "a few dozen crazy ultra-lefts [who] have been attacking the police as if they were the enemy!". This marks a new low for the Grantite politics, says Wladek Flakin
Wed 24, September 2008 @ 11:45
Last Sunday, the European Social Forum (ESF) came to a close in the
city of Malmö, southern Sweden. Nearly 10,000 people from across
Europe took part in hundreds of political and cultural events over
four days, reports Wladek Flakin, from the independent youth
organization REVOLUTION.
Mon 22, September 2008 @ 23:08
Join us to dedicate a bench and plant a tree in his memory. Meet in the flower garden, followed by drinks and food in the Black Sheep Cafe Bar at 60 Camberwell New Road. Flags and banner welcome! Sunday, September 28 12:00pm - 3:00pm Flower Garden. Kennington Park
Mon 22, September 2008 @ 22:56
The Convention of the Left (CoL) that took place in Manchester this week brought together more than 300 militants, trade unionists and socialists from many organisations and from none. It was a remarkably successful event reports Stuart King.
Mon 22, September 2008 @ 10:29
It is open season in the media on Wall St financiers and the failings of capitalism. The vices of the free market are now been underscored daily. But it is going a bit far to call these measures "socialist" as some are doing, says Keith Harvey...
Fri 19, September 2008 @ 05:19
After nearly two months of talks between opposition MDC leader Morgan Tsvangirai and President Robert Mugabe of the ruling Zanu-PF, a new Zimbabwe government power-sharing deal was announced in mid-September. What prospects lie ahead? asks Jason Travis
Thu 18, September 2008 @ 11:30
Does the current crisis of the financial markets presage a “new paradigm” of the whole capitalist system? This is a topic of debate fast emerging in online and print discussions as the most recent turmoil claims more titans of the US and British banking industry, says Keith Harvey
Thu 18, September 2008 @ 09:24
The campaign to prevent the deportation of artist Babi Badalov to Azerbaijan is rapidly picking up steam, with a militant picket of the Cardiff Border Agency today (Weds 17) and AMs pledging their support.
Tue 16, September 2008 @ 20:58
· Programme of events at
Labour Party conference / Convention of the Left
· LRC Conference 2008 –
Register online now
· John McDonnell (LRC Chair) on
the Labour leadership
· New LEAP pamphlet: Building
the new common sense
Tue 16, September 2008 @ 19:37
Celebrated Azerbaijani artist Babi Badalov, whose asylum claim was rejected by the Home Office, was seized when reporting to the Border Agency office in Cardiff today. He was taken to Rhymney police station but his current whereabouts are unknown.
An openly gay man, critical of his homophobic government, Babi has already suffered physical and mental attacks as well as death threats which have left him psychologically fragile.
Tue 16, September 2008 @ 18:40
The programme sets out a series of 21 classes designed to educate new activists and especially young people in the basics of revolutionary Marxism and to prepare them for subsequent - more detailed - study.
Tue 16, September 2008 @ 15:34
At
the start of the summer break a leadership challenge to Gordon
Brown seemed very likely. Defeat by the SNP in Glasgow East,
appalling opinion poll ratings following the abolition of the 10%
tax band and a clear statement of intent to be a contender by David
Miliband, all added up to a serious threat to Brown....writes Andy
Smith...
Mon 15, September 2008 @ 23:08
The last 10 years offered plenty of opportunities for the socialist left to make a significant step forward. The brutality of globalisation, the betrayals by New Labour, the war on Iraq and Afghanistan and now the economic turmoil of the credit crunch have led to anger and organised protest. The anti-capitalist protests brought many thousands on to the streets, the anti-war movement mobilised millions....write PR....(CotL leaflet.pdf)
Mon 15, September 2008 @ 21:40
Our autumn journal not surprisingly deals with the ongoing financial crisis and its implications for the British and world economy. Our lead article looks at Britain, while we interview Costas Lapavitsas on the financial crisis and its implications for Marxist theory. Two reviews continue the analysis, one a polemic with our former comrades in the LFI who dismiss the idea of long waves in capitalism.
A major article looks at the new leadership in Cuba other pieces give an impression of the new working class in China and the history of the US working class. Trying to explain why the USA has never built a workers’ party is very relevant in a US election year where the voters again are faced with a choice between two bourgeois parties.
Mon 15, September 2008 @ 20:14
Child "M" (who can’t be named for legal reasons) is aged 8. He is here in the UK with his mum, brother and sister. They face persecution if they are returned to Iran - they are accused of circulating Salman Rushdie's book ‘The Satanic Verses’.
Mon 15, September 2008 @ 11:20
The USA's fourth largest investment bank finally gave up the search for some one to inject funds into the failing finance house at the weekend. Keith Harvey assess the implications
Sun 14, September 2008 @ 19:39
We are pleased to announce that the comments facility has been restored on PR web. We were being hit by numerous spam bots, but have now developed a new technical solution, which we hope works. Commentors will have to leave an e-mail and fill in a short captcha. Sorry for any inconvenience and let us know any problems. And thanks to Andrew for managing to work it all out.
PR webby
Sun 14, September 2008 @ 10:25
Wednesday, September 17
Picket of the US embassy
Grosvenor Sq
4 to 6 pm
Sat 13, September 2008 @ 18:03
On Thursday, protestors from the so-called “civic movements” of the east of Bolivia launched violent attacks on government buildings … writes Dave Esterson. The offices of the state-run telecommunications company, the tax agency, the land reform institute and the local branch of the state television network in the city of Santa Cruz were raided, trashed and burned.
Fri 12, September 2008 @ 17:08
The world's largest pipe-laying vessel, The Solitaire, arrived
off the coast of Mayo, Ireland, yesterday evening.
The Solitaire is installing the offshore section of the Corrib Gas
pipeline for Shell. The ship is supported by a number of Shell
support craft, the Irish Police Water Unit and part of the Irish
Navy. Stiff opposition has begun, with a local school teacher
already on hunger strike.
Fri 12, September 2008 @ 17:04
Join the march for peace - Sat 20th Sept. Manchester. M15 6BH
Thu 11, September 2008 @ 18:54
Celia Hart, along with her brother, were killed in a traffic
accident in Cuba in early September. She was known on the European
and international left as a critical thinker and sympathiser of
Trotsky – a rarity on the Cuban left....writes Stuart King...
Thu 11, September 2008 @ 07:45
Wed 10, September 2008 @ 15:02
Sex and the Revolution The first meeting of the Marxist Radical Forum is in conjunction with the UMSU Womens' group the Riveters
Speaking we have Catherine an activist from the International Union of Sex Workers
Vicky Thompson from Permanent Revolution and Jennie Killip UMSU Womens' Officer,
Monday, September 29, 2008, 5:30pm - 7:30pm Meeting Room 4 (Basement of Students' Union) Oxford Road
Wed 10, September 2008 @ 14:54
Anoosheh Azadbar a student at Tehran University, and a recently elected Honorary Vice President of the National Union of Students, has been charged with ‘plotting against the Islamic regime’ and acting against ‘national interests with a left wing group’.
Wed 10, September 2008 @ 10:51
In a statement issued today by Public Services International, it was reported that Meryem's union -- SES -- "thanked the international community for its support and solidarity via the LabourStart campaign as well as PSI affiliates" and others.
Wed 10, September 2008 @ 10:49
Campaign leafleting and petitioning will start this weekend - 12.00 on Saturday 13th September at Longsight Market (corner of Dickenson Road and Stockport Road) - please join in if you can, or come to the next campaign meeting at the school on Tuesday 16th, and let people know.
Tue 09, September 2008 @ 14:50
Over the weekend of September 6/7th the US Treasury engineered
the takeover of two mortgage giants to reassure markets and
forestall a collapse of the whole financial system. Bill Jefferies
looks at what led up to and what the implications are likely to
be...
Tue 09, September 2008 @ 11:57
The fourth meeting of the Cardiff Radical Socialist Forum last Wednesday attracted over twenty activists to discuss issues around immigration. Teresa Hayter of No-one Is Illegal, introducing...
Mon 08, September 2008 @ 18:17
Sun 07, September 2008 @ 23:12
Labour Party conference takes place from Saturday 20th to Tuesday 23rd September in Manchester. Although last year's conference voted to abolish contemporary resolutions, constitutional amendments are still permitted.
Sun 07, September 2008 @ 18:23
Thanks for all leafleting carried out since last time and for further publicising. This is just a reminder that the next (and final pre-convention) organising group meeting is on
Thursday 11th September - different venue - Britons Protection (corner of Gt Bridgwater St and Lower Mosley St) - 7.00pm.
Sun 07, September 2008 @ 18:18
Over a hundred supporters gathered at Parsonage Gardens in Manchester this morning, where the Employment Tribunal had originally been scheduled to hear Karen Reissmann’s case for full reinstatement. Report by Greg Dropkin www.labournet.net
Sun 07, September 2008 @ 18:06
How should revolutionary socialists act in parliament? Should we risk legitimising powerless legislative bodies? And how do we stop the workers’ MPs from being corrupted in the bosses’ parliaments? These were some of the problems faced by the Bolsheviks before the First World War.
Thu 04, September 2008 @ 18:58
On September 4 at 11am, Anooshe Azadbar - overwhelming voted one of its honorary vice presidents by the British student union at its annual conference in April - was brought before a court in Iran. She faced multiple charges...write HOPI...
Thu 04, September 2008 @ 16:01
7.30PM MONDAY 8TH SEPTEMBER
FRIENDS MEETING HOUSE, Mount Street, Off Albert Sq, Behind
Central Library.
Wed 03, September 2008 @ 17:07
On August 24, 2008 the General Federation of Workers Councils and Unions in Iraq (GFWCUI) called for a mass demonstration against the recent decree issued by the Minister of Finance in which he ordered a significant reduction in the wages and benefits for workers.
Mon 01, September 2008 @ 19:45
Remember Hussein Ali and Muhammed Hussein
Thursday 11th September 2008 - 12:30pm - 14:30pm
International Federation of Iraqi Refugees and Coalition to stop Deportations to Iraq are holding a joint lobby to protest at the UK Home Office's continuing policy of forcible deportation to Iraq.
