This is an interview from the website of independent youth organisation Revolution - http://www.onesolutionrevolution.org/?p=293&language=en Interview with an activist at an American university about the situation before the elections Scott is an activist at the University of North Carolina in Chapel Hill (USA). He spoke with REVOLUTION about the political situation at the universities a few weeks before the ...
Ninety years after the signing of the Armistice, on 11th November 1918, we republish an article by CS member James Turley which examines what Poppy Day means today: National fetishes It is that time of year when almost every public figure wears a plastic poppy, to commemorate the casualties of war. James Turley inquires into the roots and ...
A Mute magazine talk Hillel Ticktin's reinterpretation of Marx's ideas enabled him to foresee the disintegration of Soviet Stalinism years before it occurred. Since then he has argued that capitalism itself is in a state of inexorable decline. During the 20th century, world wars, reformism, Stalinism and recently the credit boom successfully maintained capitalism by keeping the ...
By Nick Jones The emancipation of women has long been of importance and controversy for Marxists. It is necessary to critically examine those attempts on the left to champion an ‘anti-capitalist feminism’ as the solution to this form of oppression, as expressed most recently by the Alliance for Workers’ Liberty’s front organisation, Feminist Fightback. It is crucial ...
Video from HOPI public meeting in Manchester on October 22. For a report see here: http://communiststudents.org.uk/?p=1506
Assemble: Dec 1st, 12.00 at the Student union concourse, Highfield Campus, University Road, Southampton. John Denham, the Universities minister is a local M.P in Southampton. Put pressure on him in his own area and make it clear that we do not support the outrageous charging of fees to students. Leaflet: http://xs432.xs.to/xs432/08430/cdfleafletv2109.jpg
The text below is taken from the website Marxist.com: Universities have been occupied in Bologna, Cagliari, Florence, Milan, Rome, Naples, Pisa, Lecce, Padua, Turin, etc. In Milan, Palermo, Sassari and Cagliari normal lessons have been suspended and replaced by activities aimed at strengthening the mobilisation and discussing the details of the education counter-reform presently going through ...
Up-to 15,000 students have taken to the streets to protest against the possible reintroduction of third-level fees in Ireland. They marched through Dublin from Parnell Square to a rally outside Leinster House. This follows hot on the heels of a similar sized demonstration of Irish pensioners protesting over budget cutbacks. And all of this while ...
by Robbie Folkard On October 18, over 200 people, mainly students, took to the streets to protest against a demonstration in Leeds by the self-proclaimed Nazi British People’s Party; a group whose local organiser had just been imprisoned for having nail bombs ready to attack mosques, and a computer containing over 40,000 images of children being ...
On 8 August 2008 Nader Zarebi, an asylum seeker from Iran, hanged himself in a park in Longsight, Manchester after being made homeless from his accommodation. Forced into destitution and homelessness, with no legal way to support himself, fearful of losing his life if returned to Iran where hundreds of political prisoners are executed every ...
At our meeting on Wednesday October 15 the London Communist Students branch decided to embark on a study of volume 1 of Marx's classic text on political economy: Capital. We will be be dedicating the main part of London Communist Students meetings every second week to this study. The first of these meetings will be ...
Comrades at the US based New Politics journal have produced the first part of a useful 'Symposium on Gays and the Left'. Gay liberation is an issue that much of the left has historically neglected, and even today groups like the SWP can dismiss fighting for gay rights as a "shibboleth" that can be junked ...
We have received the following report from comrade Wladek Flakin, from the independent youth organization REVOLUTION in Germany: On 22 May, about 8,000 students in Berlin demonstrated through the inner city. On 12 June, there were students' strikes in at least eight different cities, from Tübingen in the south-west to Bad Doberan in the north-east, with ...