Posts Tagged ‘cpgb’
Uncritical Stalinists?
This poster was plastered on the walls of Manchester University by a group called Communist Students last week, inviting to a “debate and discussion on Stalinism, what it is, and why we oppose it”. What does it say in huge letters? “Stalinism is anti-communism”. A clear enough statement, right?
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Following an incident at the SWP’s Marxism 2010 festival (reported here) Claire Fisher and myself sent a readers’ letter to the SWP paper, Socialist Worker. We had the faint hope that honesty and solidarity would prevail over apparatchik attitudes and our letter would get printed. Initially, one Socialist Worker journalist expressed (feigned?) interest in our [...]
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Report from the 1234 Festival, Sat 24th July 2010 in Shoreditch Park, also published in Weekly Worker. From Greenpeace to Amnesty International, from the Metropolitan Police to Lucky Strike and the Socialist Workers Party, everybody was testing their credentials with those trendy young things at the July 24 1234 music festival in Shoreditch Park. “You [...]
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