Category Archives: Manifestos

NUS: Left in the basement

Bureaucrats still in charge

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 ...

Vote Communist for Shef Union 09!

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I'm Laurie Smith and I'm standing for President of Sheffield Student's Union 2009. I am a Marxist and a member of Communist Students, and I believe student politics needs to be about more than just personalities and the crushing bureaucracy they inhabit- no wonder hardly anyone votes! When standing before I have always made clear that ...

Chris Strafford for the Block of 12!

Chris Strafford, a member of Communist Students and Hands Off The People of Iran, is standing for the NUS Block of 12. This is his election manifesto As the right-wing NUS bureaucracy prepares to gut what remains of the union's democratic structures, the fight for free education faces a growing series of setbacks, and resurgent student ...

Chris Strafford for NUS block of 12!

CS member Chris Strafford is standing for the NUS block of 12 on a full revolutionary platform. Join the facebook group! Here is his manifesto: As the NUS bureaucracy - ever more firmly in the grip of the right - prepares to gut what remains of the union’s democratic structures, the fight for free education faces ...

Candidates’ election statements

for the Sheffield Student Union elections 2007 Executive posts Communist Student for president! As a member of Communist Students and the CPGB, I will fight to ensure that Sheffield University is run and controlled by its students and staff. I will seek to create a fighting and politically active Student Union that takes up the fight for free education ...