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SANTA CRUZ DE TENERIFE, Thursday November 11 2010 Demonstrators marched in Santa Cruz on Thursday night against the week-long assault on a protest camp in Moroccan-occupied Western Sahara. by JAMES TWEEDIE Over one thousand people, many Sahrawis but the majority Spanish Canarians, marched through the city centre to a rally at Plaza Candelaria to demand an end to the police and military operation. The streets were filled with fluttering Sahrawi flags, while demonstrators chanted: “Free Sahara” and: “The crime is Morocco's, the responsibility is Spain's”. Others protested outside the Moroccan consulate on the neighbouring island of Gran Canaria, on what was the 92 nd  anniversary of the end of the First World War. Further protests were planned in the towns of La Oratava on Friday and Playa de Las Americas on Saturday, when there will also be a major demonstration in Spain's capital Madrid. More than 20,000 people had been camped outside Western Sahara's largest city El Aa

 Lucy and Miles on the demo, photograph by Betty Hall By Lucy Hall Blasting out dub step, noisy young people are singing and dancing around big speakers. Others try to make phone calls over the noise, attempting to meet up with friends. Some have painted faces,some are dressed up in costume- they look ridiculous. Notting Hill Carnival?  A party on Clapham Common? No, actually. it’s a 50,000 strong demonstration, and most of us are youngsters.  Since the cuts were announced I’ve protested outside the Tory conference in Birmingham. I've protested here, I've protested there. The marches are always enjoyable. The feeling of standing up for what you believe in is the best kind of feeling, and you are among like-minded people. It is refreshing and inspiring.  But Wednesday’s march against the rise in tuition fees and the cuts was like nothing anything our generation has ever done before; our apathetic, apolitical generation suddenly stepped up, and gave everyone a shock.

Students at the Mill Bank, photograph by Alexandra Santarelli Article by Alexandra Santarelli 10th of November 2010 is a date to remember, because it marks the first fightback against the ConLibs and their policies.  The demonstration for the increase of tuition fees started off near Embankment and then carried on with the students walking through Parliament Square with drums going to the beat of shouts, music and chants, saying  “No if, no buts, no education cuts.” I was walking and joining in with the singing and you could feel the adrenaline rising, growing stronger; but no one was as powerful, as shocking as the people outside number 30 MILL BANK where the Conservatives have their HQ.  At the start the situation outside the MILL BANK building seemed controlled. Later on though, I realised that at that point there were already people inside the building shouting, singing and inviting others on the demonstration to come inside.  But this mea

The Classics, New Century , Part 7 Rosa Luxemburg, 1871-1919 Reform or Revolution? Rosa Luxemburg’s “ Reform or Revolution? ” is a great classic. In the first place it is a thorough polemical rejection of Eduard Bernstein’s 1899 “ Evolutionary Socialism ”, which book Luxemburg deals with comprehensively, to the point where she concludes: “It was enough for opportunism to speak out to prove it had nothing to say. In the history of our party that is the only importance of Bernstein’s book.” This was true. The reformists have never made any advance on Bernstein; but they keep coming. “Reform or Revolution?” then at once becomes the beginning of an even more crucial polemic, this time between Luxemburg and Vladimir Lenin, which generated further “classics”, and which we will follow in this part of our course on the classics. Luxemburg demolishes Bernstein but then contradicts Lenin and is in turn corrected by Lenin’s final reply. In the process of these two successive polemics, the

African Revolutionary Writers, Part 10a Walter Rodney 1942 - 1980 Walter Rodney was a revolutionary intellectual born in Guyana who is also indelibly and eternally associated with the Dar-es-Salaam University school of African Revolutionary Writers. This downloadable text linked below is a much longer text than usual and in this first edition of the Communist University African Revolutionary Writers Series it is the last. It is the 44-page Chapter Six of Walter Rodney’s “ How Europe Underdeveloped Africa ”. The entire book can be downloaded in PDF format by clicking here (1069 KB). Walter Rodney was assassinated in the middle of his birthplace of Georgetown, Guyana, on 13 June 1980. There is another biography of Walter Rodney here . Rodney is famous as one of the illustrious Dar Campus, of which we have already featured two others, namely Issa Shivji and Mahmood Mamdani. “How Europe Underdeveloped Africa” made a huge impact when it was first published and still continues to h