A report by Communist Students member Robbie Folkard This evening there was a quite interesting but uneventful rally held by Greater Manchester Stop the War Coalition featuring academic Terry Eagleton, 'Guardian' journalist Seamus Milne and Socialist Workers Party leader, John Rees. Most of the contributions were the usual deal, the importance and strength of Stop the War ...
On September 4 at 11am, Anooshe Azadbar - overwhelming voted one of its honorary vice presidents by the British student union at its annual conference in April - was brought before a court in Iran. She faced multiple charges: – plotting against the Islamic regime – ...
Sessions on fascism, feminism, and 1968, and openly expressed differences between CPGBers, were some of the many aspects of this year’s Communist University, writes Mary Godwin
from Weekly Worker 734
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Communist University 2008 represented another small step in the long fight to build the sort of Marxist party the working class in Britain needs. Around 200 comrades attended over the week with between 30 and 60 at each of the 22 sessions.
Sean Matgamna’s fake rhetorical questions are intended as a cover for his open social-imperialism, writes Israeli socialist Moshé Machover From Weekly Workers 734 In the cacophonous chorus of warmongers - among the shrieks of hawks, howls of jackals and foul laughter of hyenas - the attentive ear discerns a distinctive discordant sound coming from the far left: ...
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On his talk on ‘Education in the neoliberal world’, Rob Owen of the SWP gave a good description of the changing nature of university education over the last 20-30 years. He was, however, somewhat optimistic in his ...
The potential for Student Respect in alliance with the Federation of Student Islamic Societies to make a breakthrough in student politics - and the contradictory results this would have for political and social ...
Dave Isaacson reports on the forthcoming 'conference' of Student Respect On Sunday December 3 Student Respect holds its conference in London’s School of African and Oriental Studies. The college staff tell us that the main room booked for ...