In 2010 we might jsut see a sporting world where homosexuality is at least less of a taboo, and for this we must thank Alfie Thomas, writes Ben Lewis It is rare that you read or see something in the news that cheers you up. The far left press’s eternal Panglossianism - occasionally tantamount to ...
James Turley reviews Mark Bould and China Miéville (eds) Red planets: Marxism and science fiction Pluto, 2009, pp293, £19.99 When English literature departments first arose in Anglo-Saxon academia, their purpose was in some ways relatively well defined. The bourgeoisie, so its political allies in the aristocracy and flunkies among the intelligentsia argued, was culturally bereft; worse, ...
In today’s society there is a growing fear of the youth, one does not have to look too hard in the bourgeois press to find periodic waves of anti-youth hysteria. The bourgeoisie play on the fears of the elderly and middle England, promising to get tough on ‘anti-social behaviour’ and tough on the causes ...
This video from the BBC website shows a secret rally demanding that Ahmadinejad resign. http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/middle_east/8100739.stm
This report from a Westminster University student denied ‘mitigating circumstances’ for his exams following the death of his father underlines the soullessness and bureaucracy of the higher education system. "If you are going to tell people the truth, you had better make them laugh. Otherwise they'll kill you." In the past months I have heard some people ...
This is the text of a leaflet we issued at the founding conference of Youth Fight for Jobs on Saturday May 9, which was attended by about 100 comrades. A small report will follow in due course. One manifestation of the capitalist crisis is in the jobs market. According to the government's own statistic the claimant ...
On Thursday May 7 Communist Students were up at the crack of dawn to attend the picket lines at London Metropolitan University, showing our support for the strike action against outrageous cuts proposals following severe mismanagement and bureaucracy. The pickets were quite well attended and there was a positive mood amongst the strikers. Students largely ...
Both on the student left and the more generally, the 'united front' is often used as a way of justifying this or that opportunistic turn. We hear it constantly from the Socialist Workers' Party when it discusses setting up and doing work around campaigns like Unite Against Fascism (which in reality are more like popular ...
Laurie Smith reports on Saturday’s ‘student coordination’ event On April 18, around 70 student activists met at University College London for the ‘student coordination’ instigated by Revolution, the youth group of Workers Power. Though 70 people is not bad for a new student left initiative - testament to the impact of the university occupations over Gaza in ...
Internationalism must be a principle which we make concrete, writes Dave Isaacson The level of repression against radical activists and voices of opposition to the Islamic Republic in Iran has increased in the recent weeks. Activists from the students’, women’s and workers’ movements, as well as those from national and religious minorities, have all suffered violent ...
By Laurie Smith, CS Sheffield Sheffield University became the 34th university to be occupied on Monday March 16 when students took control of two lecture theatres in the Hicks building right outside the Student's Union. The willingness of students to act in a radical fashion has been thoroughly inspiring, and this has been no different in ...
Communist Students is preparing the ground for the kind of student movement we need, writes Ben Lewis Anybody who watches television or reads the newspapers will have noticed that these are not exactly the best of times for the capitalist class. Stock markets have crashed, the banking system nearly went into meltdown and unemployment, house repossessions ...
Frances Grahl continues her series of articles on the inspiring student strikes in France (for the first article on this, click here) ‘On en a marre’ is what French students are chanting now: ‘We’re sick and tired’. The strikes continue but the government has so far ceded in very little. The Pécresse Reforms, hotly contested across ...