SWP opposition: Signs of life
Here we collect recent important documents that have come out of the remaining SWP opposition
Communist University 2013 - update
Comrades’ minds are starting to focus on two important annual events for us - our annual school, the Communist University, and Summer Offensive, the two month fund drive that funds it and a great deal of other party work over the year.
Event: May ’68 and its lessons
London Communist Forum with Mike Macnair (CPGB) discusses what the lessons of the 1968 uprisings are, and why they are so important to the left.
Weekly Worker legal appeal: Model letter and motion
An appeal from the editor
What drives capital’s global crises?
Mike Macnair reviews: Guglielmo Carchedi, 'Behind the crisis: Marx’s dialectics of value and knowledge', Haymarket Books, 2012, pp303, £20
This book’s subtitle is a better guide to its contents than the main title: it is primarily about the philosophical underpinnings of Marx’s critique of political economy, and only secondarily - in part of chapter two and in chapter three - about the immediate origins or explanation of the ‘great crisis’ of 2008-09 and the relative stagnation which has followed it in the central imperialist countries. This point is not meant as a criticism - or, rather, at most it is a criticism of its marketing. It is an important work which should be widely read, though not uncritically.
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Letters
Piss and wind; Discussion; Hacked off; Top-down?; Transcend them; UKIP mirror; Pedantry;
SWP: Opposition springs back to life
The fightback must be principled and programmatically armed, urges Peter Manson
Left Unity: Broad party illusions
Ben Lewis offers some critical thoughts on a recent International Socialist Network article
Dissecting the Platypus
Where does “hosting the conversation” on the “death” of the left start and the actual opinions of the leadership begin? Corey Ansel looks at the enigma of the US-based Platypus Affiliated Society
Anti-sectarianism, Polish style
Maciej Zurowski interviews comrades from a Polish Marxist tendency, and finds parallels with left thinking in the UK
Latin America rebels against war on drugs
Communists fight for the real ‘game-changer’, writes Eddie Ford - the legalisation of all drugs
Tories: Return of the repressed
For the first time, this coalition government looks structurally unsound - but its collapse would shift politics to the right, argues Paul Demarty
Iran: Election farce exposes regime’s crisis
The Iranian elections are a travesty that demand a boycott, says Yassamine Mather
Touching distance
Robbie Rix on what could be a close-run Fighting Fund
Appeal from the editor
Editor Peter Manson reports on the WW's legal appeal
