A report from B.Rienzi, a lecturer at Tours in France Everyone agrees that the participation of higher education teachers in the movement to reject the two changes to the law (the status of Lecturer-Researchers and masterisation of the CAPES teacher-training course) and to refuse the 1030 planned job losses, is impressive and ...
Mahsa, a young Iranian student living in Europe, explains how sanctions affect her and other students "Section 13 of terms of services : PROHIBITED PERSONS (COUNTRIES, ENTITIES, AND INDIVIDUALS) 13.1.B Each individual which is a National or Citizen of a Sanctioned Country is hereby prohibited from registering or signing up with, subscribing to, or using any service of ...
Monday 23rd February saw prominent American-Jewish political scientist Norman Finkelstein, author of the highly controversial 'The Holocaust Industry', speak at King’s College London. The talk was well attended and received. Despite being entitled ‘The Misuse of anti-Semitism and the Abuse of History’, Finkelstein announced his decision to discuss the recent events in Gaza. Given Finkelstein’s ...
The student occupation of the Large Shandon Lecture Theatre in the main building of Cardiff University led by Cardiff Students Against War ended last night (26th Feb), after receiving the news that Cardiff University has divested all shares from BAe Systems and the aerospace arm of General Electric. The University has instructed its external fund ...
Wednesday 25 Free Education Demonstration: Educate, Agitate, Organise! Around 600 students gathered at SOAS University to demand free education and a living grant for all. Although numbers were slightly lower than had been initially expected, it was very encouraging to see students turn out in such numbers in an action that was organised completely independently of ...
Communist Students deplore the attempts by the Iranian regime to suppress independent worker activists such as the Haft Tapeh workers with accusations of 'acting against national security'. Ali Nejati, Feridoun Nikoufard, Mohammed Heydari Mehr, Ghorban Alipour and Jalil Ahmadi 's only crime is to act in defense of fellow sugar cane workers , many ...
This is a talk given by Lars T Lih which has been taken from the Socialist Democracy website. In a previous interview with CS back in December Lih stated that " [Karl]Kautsky’s positive influence on Lenin does not end even in 1914". This speech explains why he thinks so. Lenin and Kautsky: The final chapter By LARS ...
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Communist Students will be at this Saturday's 'Another Education is Possible' conference. Dave Isaacson reports on the latest SWP front Since the end of its involvement in the Respect popular front, the Socialist Workers Party has looked rather lost. Without electoralism the SWP has no glue to hold its work together. The organisation's response to the ongoing ...
Ben Lewis detects the beginnings of a new sentiment amongst students Communist Students has certainly stepped up our game in the last couple of weeks, having a presence at freshers fairs in 17 universities, where we distributed around 4,000 copies of the latest issue of our paper, Communist Student (see communiststudents.org.uk). This was specifically designed to ...
James Turley examines the 'Brown Bounce' Back when Gordon Brown assumed the reins of government in 2007, Labour’s poll ratings shot up. He was, after all, replacing the by then almost universally reviled Tony Blair; he had under his belt a decade as an apparently competent chancellor and a cryptic reputation for being to the left of ...
The first meeting of the Marxist Radical Forum is in conjunction with the UMSU Womens' group the Riveters. Speaking we have Catherine an activist from the International Union of Sex Workers, Vicky Thompson from Permanent Revolution and Jennie Killip UMSU Womens' Officer. Time and Place Date: Monday, September 29, 2008 Time: 5:30pm - 7:30pm Location: Meeting Room 4 (Basement ...
HANDS OFF THE PEOPLE OF IRAN BULLETIN Drop the charges against Anooshe Azadbar! www.hopoi.org Over the summer months HOPI has been doing patient work, building up our contacts and supporters in Britain, Iran and around the world. The coming months will be very busy for HOPI. With freshers fayres, meetings and demonstrations taking place. We ask all supporters ...