Posts Tagged ‘cpgb’
Irrational and brittle
There has been some debate following the Weekly Worker’s series of articles on feminism, including on Labour Representation Committee member Louise Whittle’s blog, Harpymarx. It’s regrettable that a lot of it has been conducted in a less than sober manner
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Tags: anarchists, AWL, cpgb, feminism, Harpymarx, weekly worker
Class consciousness and partyism
A report of a joint event between the CPGB and the Assoziation Dämmerung in Hamburg, including my talk on the proletariat past and present, has been published in the electronic magazine Schattenblick. You can read the German language text here. Assoziation Dämmerung have published an audio recording of the event here.
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Tags: Assoziation Dämmerung, class consciousness, cpgb, proletariat, Schattenblick
Published in Weekly Worker, 14 November 2013 It’s class war! For a revolutionary perspective!” screamed the flyer in graffiti-styled letters set against a mural background, promoting a joint event between the Assoziation Dämmerung and our CPGB delegation to Hamburg. As the aesthetic sense suggests, the Assoziation Dämmerung emerged from what is known as Germany’slinke Szene, the […]
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Tags: cpgb, Autonome, Assoziation Dämmerung, DKP, Die Linke, proletariat, animal liberation, critical theory, autonomism
Kernel of truth
Jack Conrad regrets in the CPGB podcast on ‘SWP rebellion and feminism’ that he has “not heard of any feminist movement raising radical demands for working class women”. If that is true, how thorough was his research? There exist socialist and Marxists feminisms, to name but two schools which speak of class almost incessantly. Even […]
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Tags: cpgb, feminism, jack conrad, marxism, swp
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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Tags: communism, communist party of great britain, communist students, cpgb, socialism, socialist worker, socialist workers party, stalinism, swp
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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Tags: communism, communist party of great britain, cpgb, marxism, socialism, socialist workers party, stalinism, swp, the left
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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Tags: 1234 festival, communism, communist party of great britain, cpgb, socialism, socialist workers party, subway sect, swp, weekly worker
