There will be an international demonstration and counter summit at the NATO meeting in Strasbourg on 2-5 April 2009. Anti-war groups from across the world will meet to oppose any further expasion of NATO and demand an end to the occupation of Afghanistan. Read the call to the conference here
Yes, we can’t! Sunday March 1, 20.00 : Comedy night, Library pub, Upper Street, London N1 (nearest tube: Highbury & Islington). Venue details: www.lemonrock.com/library With Peyvand Khorsandi and Hils Barker. Entry: £8. All proceeds to Hands Off the People of Iran. www.hopoi.org
Revolution (Revo), the small youth front controlled by Trotskyist group Workers Power, have recently circulated a proposal amongst the student left calling for a "student coordination". The way this has been circulated was at times cynical. When the statement was distributed at the Stop the War student activists meeting in London on February 7 many activists ...
We have just recieved this message from Equality and Freedom Seeking Students in Iran: Mohammad Pourabdollah and Alireza Davoudi, two Equality and Freedom Seeking (EFS) Students in Iran, were arrested. This morning, Feb. 12th 2009, the forces of regime arrested Mohammad Pourabdollah in a brutal attack to his house in Tehran. He has been kept in the ...
You can now read the second and concluding part of the symposium on 'Gays and the left' from the New Politics journal. It can be accessed here: http://www.newpol.org/ We published an introduction to the first part here: http://communiststudents.org.uk/2008/10/gays-and-the-left/ Comrades might also be interested to look at the archives of Gay Left, a journal produced by gay men ...
Sheffield Hallam student union activists are being victimised by their own union. Below is a report from the website of the Sheffield Hallam occupation in solidarity with the people of Gaza. Their is a demonstration tomorrow in support of these activists. Communist Students urges you to attend. Protest - Assemble 2:30pm Thursday 12th Feb at the ...
Iran, February 1979: A revolution betrayed The ...
Wednesday February 11, 14.00 to 20.30 : Teach-in, Manchester Metropolitan University, Geoffrey Manton Building, Oxford Road, Manchester. Speakers include: Nahella Ahsraf (STWC), Rae Street (CND), Moshé Machover (Hopi). Organised by MMU UCU branch: www.ucu.org.uk http://www.new.facebook.com/events.php#/event.php?eid=48708296305
Tara Santiago has sent in this report from King's College London King’s Occupation ends with significant success After 13 days of occupation an agreement has finally been reached between the negotiation team and the Principle of King’s College London, Rick Trainor. As of 1200 hours today (Sunday) the student protesters will evacuate the lecture theatre on the ...
Last year was the 50th anniversary of the Notting Hill Race riots. CS member John Sidwell wrote this article examining some of the issues The riots that broke out in Notting Hill, 1958 marked the first major race riot in Britain post-mass immigration. It spanned five nights over the August Bank holiday, sparked by the bating ...
A supporter of Communist Students at Oxford University has sent us this report and photos I went to Broad street at around 6:30pm. There were still protesters (around 40-50 of them) outside the Bodleian library (in front of Calrendon building) shouting and proclaiming their solidarity to the Palestine people. I spoke to a few of them and I ...
Communist Students supporter Tara Santiago reports from the King's College Occupation King’s is holding it’s third day of occupation in the lecture theatre K2.31 after a wonderful show of solidarity between the Hands Off The People of Iran- organised Moshe Machover talk, and the sit-in protesters at the Strand. Contrary to what certain commentators of the recently ...
There is currently a significant wave of student occupations of university buildings taking place in solidarity with the people of Gaza. There are at least eleven of these occupations that I know of already, and more on the cards. See below for links to the blogs that these occupations have set up, as well as ...