Weekly Worker

Communist Party of Great Britain (CPGB)

ENS, "Student Economism", and Communist Students

It sounds like some sort of elaborate practical joke, revolutionary politics as re-imagined by the Bash Street Kids. Communist Students arrive at the Education Not for Sale conference "Reclaim the Campus", and position themselves around the room, pretending to be participating in the event in good...

The Cynical Idealism of the Weekly Worker

Over the last few months every edition of the Weekly Worker has carried at least one article about Workers Liberty. Headlines have included "Pro Imperialists Snubbed", "ENS must Break with AWL Social - Imperialism" and "[AWL] On the Defensive over Iraq". The main purpose of these articles seems to...

Propaganda, activism and politics: a reply to Communist Students

(This is a reply to an article in 'Communist Student', the newspaper of the student group linked to the CPGB/Weekly Worker. It is online here .) ‘Mohsen Sabbagh’’s report on the ultimately fruitless left unity discussions in the build-up to the University of Sheffield Students’ Union elections wilfully mischaracterises the debates and seriously distorts some of the history. Allow me to set the record straight. Sheffield University is a national anomaly in that Communist Students is roughly as big as the other activist left groups (AWL, SWP, SP) put together; it outnumbers each of the other...

The "CPGB" — Gossip or political debate?

By David Broder The minority group of opinion in the AWL which thinks we should call for the withdrawal of troops from Iraq has been courted in recent months by the Communist Party of Great Britain, who, while displaying no interest in building working-class politics in the Middle East, have noticed a superficial similarity between their own slogans and those of our minority. Click here for an examination of the Weekly Worker Group's politics on Afghanistan The CPGB, whose Weekly Worker organ finds nothing more riveting than gossip about other far left organisations (in contrast, for instance...

An open letter to a confused anti-imperialist at the Weekly Worker Group:

Dear Mark Fisher, I’d written the friendly letter that follows this note before we received the CPGB’s refusal to debate the question of Iraq and the slogan “troops out now” with us at your summer school. Mark, plainly you don’t believe in making life easy for those of us in the AWL who are your friends, admirers and advocates! One minute you are publishing blustery little articles in your paper that suggest you are spoiling for a fight, and which accuse us of being “afraid” to debate with you. And what happens when, after a lot of lobbying and arguing, I manage to persuade our office to take...

CPGB: More bluster, no substance

Another pathetic article slandering the AWL over Iraq in the latest Weekly Worker (28 June), notable only for Mark Fischer’s ever more vapid rhetoric.

Nowhere does Fischer address the central point: what would happen if the troops left Iraq tomorrow? The CPGB avoids the question, because given the...

CPGB: Gossip no substitute for politics

More proof that the Weekly Worker is scarcely more than a grubby little gossip sheet (677, June 14 2007). Its flirtation with some AWL comrades over Iraq goes unrequited, so out come the slurs about “imperialist economism”, with neither the majority nor the minority spared.

The CPGB compares the...

Genre classics

The reports in this week's Weekly Worker on the Socialist Youth Network conference were classics of a genre the CPGB is well-practiced in. Factual and political errors are so interlaced in Ben Lewis and James Turley's contributions that comrades will excuse us if we take space to deal with both. Members of far left groups made up between two thirds and three quarters of the conference, James? In fact, of the 80 or so people who took part, not many more than 25 were actually members of a group. But of course exaggeration helps to give an appropriate ring to the a priori line of the article...

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