by James Turley of Communist Students Crocodile tears and democracy Nature has been cruel to south-east Asia recently. The Union of Myanmar (formerly, and still popularly known as Burma) has been rocked by a devastating cyclone, the eighth most severe in recorded history; and Szechuan province in China, saw a powerful earthquake kill upwards of 12,000 people. While ...
Hands Off the People of Iran is holding a weekend school on the weekend of June 14-15 from 11am at University of London Union, Malet Street. Click here for a map. Click here to download the A4 leaflet: front and back Book a stall for £20 by emailing us Speakers include John McDonnell MP, Professor Bill Bowering ...
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by Nick Jones Professor of Gender and Labour History, Sociology at the University of Manchester, Sheila Rowbotham spoke to a crowded gathering of attendees of '1968 And All That' on the topic of 'The personal and the political in 1968' discussing the way events in 1968 shaped her work and philosophy. The central focus of Sheila's ...
This report (made at 4.30pm 15/05/08 ) is taken from the Socialist Students website. 100 Southampton University students have marched through campus and are blockading a university court meeting. The university has taken the decision to remove the Union President vote from the Vice Chancellor appointment panel. Today the university court is meeting - the highest decision making ...
Communist Students members Dave Isaacson and Ben Klein reject economism and put forward the case for Marxism: Left unity not on offer This weekend will, farcically, see two separate gatherings to discuss ‘left unity’ in the student movement. Firstly, the ‘Reclaim the Campus’ event on Saturday May 17, called by the Alliance for Workers’ Liberty-run Education Not ...
Yassamine Mather, of Hands Off the People of Iran, will also be speaking at the week long Communist University event in London in August 9 - 16. For more details click here. Also, Hands of the People of Iran is organising a weekend school for Saturday-Sunday, June 14-15. For more details click here.
The following are a letter and proposals that we have submitted to 'Reclaim the Campus': Comrades, We feel that, as this conference is being billed as a discussion of "the need for a political, campaigning student movement which integrates and focuses this activism, which fights to transform our education system as part of the fight to transform ...
Following on from the occupation of the Arthur Lewis building on April 22 Manchester students have staged a number of other actions. Here is a short report of activities from the Reclaim the Uni facebook group: Friday 9th May ---------------------------- Around 100 people gathered for a follow up demo to the April 22nd. The point was to show ...
This report is from this week's Socialist Worker: Students at the University of St Andrews protested on Friday of last week against the closure of Fife Park, one of the university’s two budget halls. The protest highlighted the lack of affordable accommodation in the town. The campaign is winning widespread support with over 1,000 students signing a petition ...
Lancaster University Department of Continuing Education (DCE) is under threat. The university's Vice Chancellor announced a "reduction in activities" which could leave thousands of part-time students unable to complete their studies. It is also an explicit threat to the jobs of the forty staff in DCE - staff are already being encouraged to look for ...
Mike Bessler tells us: We have received word from Hooman Kazemian of the site "Nothing Can Stop Us!" (http://freeirstudent.blogspot.com) that Peyman Piran was released on bail on May 1. Again, this is some relatively good news. However, we should remember that Ali Kantouri remains in jail and many DAB members await trial on very serious charges. We ...