Check out these videos relating to the fantastic strike by 25,000 US dockers calling for the immediate end to the imperialist occupation of Iraq which shut down the west coast. They were also joined on strike that day by dockers in Iraq itself!
Check out this video made by some of our comrades in Iran chronicling the recent struggles there. Slogans in the song include, "in the fight for freedom and equality we have nothing to loose but our chains." The placards hold slogans such as "socialism or barbarism" and others in support of workers and women's movement ...
James Turley looks at the prospects for Education Not for Sale's 'Reclaim the Campus' event: Unlike the forced good cheer emanating from the Socialist Workers Party, the response of Education Not for Sale to the narrow defeat of the National Union of Students governance review has at least had a touch of sobriety: “The left should ...
Vicky Thompson of Hands Off the People of Iran and Chris Strafford of Communist Students report.. 'Socialists' and the lies they tell They never fail to surprise. Every time you think the ‘Socialist’ Workers Party cannot sink any lower into the depths of blatant hypocrisy and opportunism, they somehow manage to dive a little deeper. Last week, we ...
social-imperialists of the AWL take note... May Day 2008 Statement from the Iraqi Labour Movement To the Workers and All Peace Loving People of the World On this day of international labour solidarity we call on our fellow trade unionists and all those worldwide who have stood against war and occupation to increase support for our struggle ...
Picture: Iranian May Day demonstration in 2007. May Day Greetings from Hands Off the People of Iran (this message has been sent in Farsi to a range of organisations in Iran) To our brothers and sisters in Iran, We in Hands Off The People of Iran (HOPI) wish to send our May Day greetings of solidarity to you. ...
As Communist Students predicted in our report of NUS conference, 'NUS: Right prepares for fresh assault', rather than the right being “demoralised and reeling” as the SWP's Rob Owen told us, they have been plotting further attacks on the already very limited democracy of NUS. This can now be clearly seen in the email sent ...
After posting links to our reports of NUS conference to the education.net message boards comrades from Communist Students have been engaged in a debate with the AWL's Sacha Ismail ('left opposition boy') over a number of important questions. To read the debate so far (and get involved) click here.
This news just in from US comrade Mike Bessler of the Friends of the Equality and Freedom Seeking University Students of Iran: We have received word that Freedom and Equality Seeking Students (DAB) Behrouz Karimizadeh and Majid Majedi are now out of jail, which is a very positive development. They were apparently released in mid-April. Of ...
by Chris Strafford University of Manchester is definitely not the Sorbonne in 1968, but on the 22nd April between 250 and 300 students took militant action against the declining standard of education, lack of contact times the downgrading of library services and with a little bit of a fight from the Left a fight for a ...
In this article James Turley responds to a letter from Eben Marks criticising Communist Students in the Weekly Worker. James goes on to argue that students have an antagonistic relationship with college authorities... The campus and the state Making overtures to the student population has been a standard feature of leftwing activism for many decades - while ...
I've just been informed that hundreds of angry pupils staged a walk-out at St Aelreds Catholic Technology College last week to protest against plans to merge with Newton High School and create a £33m Academy. Click here for the report in the St Helens Star.
Students at Sahand Technical University staged a spontaneous sit in this Monday (21st April) in protest at the University authorities' attacks on a number of female students. As the university authorities and the university president Chanaghlou refused to listen to their demands, the students decided to continue their protest and widen the scope of the ...