The National Union of Students no-platforms George Galloway, Galloway sues the NUS, the left talks nonsense throughout and Paul Demarty wonders what the hell is going on A sad truth about today’s left is that it is pretty irrational, all told. Normally this irrationality comes out in more or less disguised form: the standard practice, adopted ...
Author of Capitalist Realism (Zero Books), Mark Fisher is the speaker at this meeting jointly organised by the CPGB and Communist Students. All are welcome, and there will be plenty of time for discussion. Mark sent us this intro, which gives a taster of his talk. Recent changes in the funding of higher education in the UK have ...
It's that time again. Communist Students comrades will be hitting freshers' fairs in the coming weeks, taking our message to campus. That message is simple: Capitalism is past its sell by date - we need a revolution to replace it with socialism. Doing so requires the greatest level of democracy possible - in the organisations of the left, ...
by Laurie Smith Daniel Randall does not like to let the facts get in the way of a good hack job, in his reply to Mohsen Sabbagh. While it is tiresome to retread old ground, the discussions we had and the subsequent reports provide a good opportunity to explore differences on the student left. Unfortunately Dan's ...
Recently, University College London students' union took the almost-unprecedented step of banning military organisations such as the Officer Training Corps from affiliation to the union. Almost no other SU has done so, and it was a brave move. Remarkably, the meeting reached the required quorum attendance of 1% of students (which is ...
Video link. Better or worse than Somaya Zadeh on sex changes? Answers on a postcard.
Hat-tip to Dave Broder and the Workers Liberty-sponsored Middle East Workers' Solidarity group. The International Longshore and Warehouse Union recently passed a motion calling for industrial action to protest the continuing assault on Iraq and Afghanistan. The motion calls the war 'bipartisan' and criticises both the main bourgeois parties in America, and proposes an 8 ...
This from Indymedia - an anti-fascist skinhead has been brutally stabbed while attempting to defend an LGBT Valentine's march from russian neo-Nazis. He's still alive, but in critical condition and - coming not so long after the tragic death of 18-year old skin Jan Kukera in the Czech Republic, see Antifa - it is another ...
This just in from the ISC: the Iraqi puppet government is going to end the rationing system, which will leave millions in absolute poverty. Their letter is posted below. Dear Comrades, please find below a link to the online petition against the planned elimination of the ration system in Iraq, which the US/UK protected Iraqi government want ...
Communist Students statement on the protests at Tehran University, by Ben Klein On the 4th of Dec 2007, over 700 leftist students demonstrated in Tehran University with the slogans: No to imperialist war, death to dictator! The University is not an army garrison! Hands Off the People of Iran! No to criminal imperialist intervention! Equality, Democracy, Boycott the elections! (reference ...
This article originally appeared in the weekly worker. We are publishing it here so discussion can take place. JT The decision by the Oxford Union debating society to give a platform to BNP leader Nick Griffin and holocaust denier David Irving provoked national controversy. James Turley digs through it all and argues for a particular application ...
by James Turley Indymedia reports that at least 15 cities in the Netherlands have seen school walkouts, meticulously planned over the internet. The walkouts are to protest the introduction of a new law demanding 1040 hours of tuition a year in schools. The students fear that the government has not made any provision on its side for ...
Chris Strafford on "Red November" After last years victory against the CPE the French students movement gathers its strength again to smash Sarkozy’s Thatcherite reforms. In the last two weeks alone 48 general assemblies have been held in universities across France. The battle is over privatisation, something we know all too well in Britain. The Pécresse law ...