Danny Hammill

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New times, new challenges

The first post-lockdown CU saw an in-depth exploration of war and peace. Danny Hammill reports

Secret world of the elite

Access capitalism and mammoth corruption have been laid bare by the Pandora papers, writes Danny Hammill

Spaces for left thinking

Despite witch-hunting attempts, CU saw a full week of open and frank debate, reports Danny Hammill.

From Trump to quantum computing

This year’s CU once again saw lively debate, reports Danny Hammill

Serious and open debate

Danny Hammill reports on the 8-day Communist University, organised jointly by Labour Party Marxists and the CPGB

Debating out differences

Danny Hammill overviews the CPGB’s summer school

Change and flux

Danny Hammill reviews 'Almost like a whale: The origin of species updated' by Steve Jones

Cornered poets society

Danny Hammill reviews ‘More agitation: political satires and other poems’ by Bob Dixon More (Artery Publications 1999, pp60, £3.50)

Neither the pound nor the euro

European Union

Philosophy, history and biology: Towards a critique of science

Danny Hammill reviews ‘Lifelines: biology, freedom, determinism’ by Steven Rose (Penguin 1998, pp334, £8.99)

Bridging the divide

Danny Hammill reports on the CPGB’s weekend school ‘Against economism’

For or against inclusive democracy

Danny Hammill reports on the July 5 London Socialist Alliance general meeting

Pooling our strength

Danny Hammill reports on the May 3 London Socialist Alliance election meeting

Making a mass impact

Danny Hammill reports on the April 7 meeting of the London Socialist Alliance, where it discussed which position to take on Blair’s May 7 rigged referendum

Blair touts for business

The de-Labourisation of Labour continues

Cracks appear in ‘Cool Britannia’

The love-in with New Labour has turned sour - and angry

Blair backs new Gulf slaughter

US air strikes against Baghdad could start within the week

Threat to Iraq grows

As Clinton sinks deeper in the mire, a diversionary strike is on the cards

The universe demystified

Danny Hammill reviews Denis Brian's ‘Einstein: a life’

Seize the moment

Another small left split from New Labour now appears inevitable, giving the revolutionary left a new opportunity

Upholding the banner of Stalin

Scargill comes out of the closet

Fighting fund

Danny Hammill reports on the Weekly Worker fighting fund

Do communists support a ban on fox-hunting or do we defend the ‘democratic rights’ of fox-hunters? Is a campaign to ban fox-hunting a ‘diversion’ from serious politics? Danny Hammill gives his view on some of these issues, debated at a recent CPGB London seminar

‘One day I’ll hav a proper job’

Danny Hammill reviews 'School’s out: poems for school' by Benjamin Zephaniah (AK Press 1997, pp56, £3.95)

Seeds of resistance

Scargill threatens members’ rights

Unity call

Lewisham debates Scargill constitution

Jobs not Job Seekers Allowance

In brief

Movement of the class

Danny Hammill reports on last week’s CPGB aggregate

Open differences

Last Sunday Open Polemic held its conference on communist fragmentation and social democracy. Danny Hammill reports

Failing the test

Heresy and orthodoxy

Danny Hammill reviews 'Reinventing Darwin: The Great Evolutionary Debate' by Niles Eldredge, (Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1995, pp244)

Anarchist arrogance

Danny Hammill reviews ‘I couldn’t paint golden angels: sixty years of commonplace life and anarchist agitation’ by Albert Meltzer (AK Press, 1996, pp386)

The stakes are high

Lewisham socialist alliance

Capitalism wins the day

Humanity denied

Danny Hammill reviews 'Burnt by the Sun' (directed by Nikita Mikalkov, 1994, Russia) and La Haine (directed by Mathieu Kassovitz, 1995, France)

The Darwinian revolution

Danny Hammill reviews 'Darwin’s Dangerous Idea: Evolution and the Meanings of Life' by Daniel Dennett (The Penguin Press 1995, pp586) and 'River out of Eden: A Darwinian View of Life' by Richard Dawkins (Weidenfield & Nicolson 1995, pp172)

Competing revolutionary theories

The CPGB organised a special meeting last Sunday to discuss the recent splits in the League for a Revolutionary Communist International, which is led by the Workers Power group in Britain. The issues that have precipitated these splits are of vital importance to the entire revolutionary movement and thus should be debated openly. The main speaker was José Villa, a leading member of the LRCI’s Bolivian section, Poder Obrero. Danny Hammill reports