Communist Students were stirring things up at this year's conference of the National Union of Students Members and supporters of Communist Students made a stand for principled Marxist politics at the 2014 conference of the National Union of Students, where CS member Robert Hayes was standing for the ‘block of 15’ individually elected members of the executive. The ...
Author of Capitalist Realism (Zero Books), Mark Fisher is the speaker at this meeting jointly organised by the CPGB and Communist Students. All are welcome, and there will be plenty of time for discussion. Mark sent us this intro, which gives a taster of his talk. Recent changes in the funding of higher education in the UK have ...
Manchester CS public meeting 6pm, Thursday 20th October Cameron Committee Room on 3rd floor of MMU **Meeting postponed on 13th October** The Middle East and North Africa have seen a wave of uprisings against decades-old dictatorships which sought to stifle all dissent. Oppression and grinding exploitation at the hands of both local tyrants and Western capital lies behind the ...
Manchester CS public meeting 6pm, Thursday 6th October Cameron Committee Room on 3rd floor of MMU Most of the left are calling for a general strike against the cuts. At this meeting we will be examining this tactic and its limitations. An introduction will be given by a CS member, followed by plenty of time for discussion and ...
Manchester CS public meeting 6pm, Thursday 29th September Cameron Committee Room on 3rd floor of MMU What began with a 'few bad apples' in the finance sector has been revealed as a full-blown crisis of global capitalism, and the working class is being made to pay. What are the particular features of this crisis, and how can communists ...
Manchester CS public meeting 6pm, Thursday 22nd Sept Cameron Committee Room on 3rd floor of MMU An introduction will be given by a CS member heavily involved in the student movement of last year and we are hoping a good debate and discussion will follow the initial talk. Contact us for more info: manchestercommuniststudents@googlemail.com
What is the Marxist stance on violence? Is a peaceful revolution against capitalism possible, or must all political power come from the ‘barrel of a gun’? And what do we make of the left-wing terrorists in the 1970’s, or today’s Black Block? Join Communist Students at our next public meeting to discuss these questions. Public Meeting ...
As the tenth anniversary of 9.11 and the war in Afghanistan approaches , Stop the War is organising a day event to assess the damage done by the War on Terror, the impact of challenges to US global power and the likelihood of further wars.
Where: Westminster Abbey (map) Description: Baked bean protest at Royal Wedding.
Where: The Mall and Parliament Square, London (map) Callout below; The British establishment want us to celebrate the grotesque extravagance of the marriage of a 'prince' to a 'princess'. This medieval theatre is an insult to millions of people living in poverty and suffering from Tory cuts. Help to make the 'fairytale ...
Supported by: o Black Triangle Anti-Defamation Campaign o Brighton Benefits Campaign o Cardiff’s Unemployed Daytime Disco o Carer Watch o Carer Watch fb page o Crippen – Disabled Cartoonist o Diary of a Benefit Scrounger o Disabled People Against Cuts o Dundee Unemployed Workers o Free London Listings o Goldsmiths in Occupation o Haringey ...
Callout below: 2010 saw an unprecedented wave of student protest, this was followed in 2011 by a series of mass protest in the Middle East. The student movement has been a breath of fresh air. Now, in order to ensure that this energy is harnessed and not frittered away, we now have to ensure that we ...
We first posted this in 2009. Also see our section on Women and Marxism. What is now known as International Women's Day was initially called International Working Women's Day and was a key date in the communist calendar. Unfortunately over the years the connection between this day, on which we mark the fight for women's liberation, ...