This email newsletter was sent to CS contacts gathered over the last year. If you would like to receive future mailshots, you can subscribe here. Dear comrade, We are writing to you as you have expressed an interest in our organisation, Communist Students. CS is an autonomous Marxist organisation that aims to promote the ideas of Communism ...
Callum Williamson reports on a demo which showcased the weaknesses of both right and left in the student movement Whilst the student demonstration on Wednesday November 21 did not exactly shake national politics, it was the scene of a political struggle between elements of the student left (led to some extent by the National Campaign Against ...
This is the text of a leaflet distributed by CS members at the NUS anti-cuts demonstration on Wednesday 21st November. Click on the image to download a PDF version. The world is in economic chaos – and social devastation is everywhere the result. Around 40,000 Greek children are starving, living standards across Europe are plummeting and ...
Recorded at the London Communist Forum hosted by the CPGB on November 11 2012. Lars T Lih is a leading scholar of the Russian Revolution whose work challenges many myths of both establishment and left thought, like the Bolshevik 'party of a new type'. Highly recommended.
Recorded at the meeting organised by Communist Students & the CPGB on Monday 22nd of October. Mark Fisher's intro: Replying to the debate: Replying again:
CS member Ben Lewis was invited to the Durham Union Debating Society to debate the above motion with various establishment thinkers (and the Stalinist Harpal Brar). These are the edited notes for his speech1. Even a cursory glance around our world is enough to see it is in serious trouble. Many of the tensions and contradictions ...
Yesterday, Friday 15th of June at 12 noon 60 members of the Coordinating Committee to Help Form Workers' organizations and a number of labor activists were arrested in the city of Karaj. According to the latest news, Mitra Homayooni, Vafa Ghaderi, Reyhaneh Ansari, Khaled Hosseini, Mahmoud Salehi, Saeed Moghaddam, Cyrus Fathi, Ghaleb Hoss are amongst those ...
Michael Copestake reports from the 2012 Communist Students conference This year’s Communist Students conference took place in London over the weekend of June 9-10 against a background of controversy and intra-organisational struggle - up to and including a recent coup attempt against the elected leadership by comrades in Manchester CS branch around Chris Strafford. As such, ...
As the next Greek elections loom, Paul Demarty takes a look at the lines being taken by the left and the current controversy in the SWP On Sunday June 17, the Greek population will march once again to the polls - this time in even more dramatic circumstances. The polarisation of support between the rightwing New ...
Calling on Egyptians to vote for the Muslim Brotherhood is insane, argues Paul Demarty (first published in the WW) The May 23-24 first round of voting in the Egyptian presidential elections produced, as has been widely noted, the worst possible outcome for the masses, lining up the Muslim Brotherhood’s Mohamed Mursi against erstwhile Mubarak crony Ahmed ...
As the constitutional monarchy state proclaims its commitment to privilege and the status quo, Michael Copestake looks back to a rather different tradition (for a classic Marxist take on the monarchy and republicanism, see the bottom of this article for links to Karl Kautsky's 'Republic and social democracy') There were many who doubted whether or not the ...
The emergence of a programme from the Occupy movement has caused a flurry of debate on the ACI website, Paul Demarty decides to join in The emergence of a written programme[1] from the Occupy movement is in some ways an odd turn of events. It has been a source of some excitement in the Anti-Capitalist Initiative, ...
Here we publish our reply to comrades from the Revolution youth group, who emailed CS (see below) suggesting closer collaboration between our organisations. Dear comrades, We thank you for your correspondence dated April 20 2012. The question of revolutionary unity and rapprochement is absolutely vital to our movement today. We in Communist Students are willing to debate and ...