On Saturday 12th March over 2,000 trade unionists, students, families and others turned out to protest the conference of the Liberal Democrats being held in Sheffield City Hall. The march and rally was organised by the Sheffield Anti-Cuts Alliance and the Socialist Workers Party-dominated Right to Work campaign. Last year, the Lib Dems were forced ...
Political oblivion looms large, writes James Turley. It has, all told, been a quiet month or two for the Liberal Democrats, who in the run-up to and aftermath of the holiday season seemed to face gaffe after gaffe, culminating in a mediocre performance in the Oldham East by-election in January. Now, they may look ...
Both before and after March 26, the London Student Assembly can serve as a broad model for organising on campus, writes Ben Lewis. Those looking forward to what will surely be a huge, exciting, colourful and militant demonstration against the Con-Dem cuts onslaught on March 26 cannot but seek to draw inspiration from ...
CS London statement on University of London Union elections. Today will see the opening of the week-long University of London Union elections. ULU is the largest student union in Europe, an umbrella organization drawing in some 120,000 students from the unions of individual London institutions. The election of incumbent president Clare Solomon last year has been of ...
Michael Copestake reports from the steel city Friday March 4th saw Sheffield City Council sitting in the town hall in order to vote through its package of budget cuts for the forthcoming year, to the tune of some £80 million. Outside the town, in the freezing cold, gathered a crowd consisting mostly of trade unions representing ...
James O'Leary reports On Saturday 5th March members of Communist Students joined the march against cuts in Manchester that had been called by Manchester Coalition Against Cuts to protests against this years spending cuts and more specifically the £110 million pounds worth of cuts to services that manchester City Council are set to vote through on ...
Text of the leaflet distributed by CS members at today's demonstration against cuts in Manchester. Click here to view the PDF of the leaflet. Today working class people in Manchester and around the entire world are facing the greatest attack on their living standards in history. This year the UK government is implementing £81 billion worth of ...
David Cameron's gun-toting trade tour is a much-needed reminder of imperialism's real interest in the Middle East, writes James Turley When David Cameron delivered a speech attacking multiculturalism last month, much of the inevitable controversy focused on his timing - it coincided with an English Defence League protest - which turned out to ...
While we have a long way to go from here, Dave Isaacson argues that the anti-cuts movement in Milton Keynes has made an impressive start The past week has been an important one for the anti-cuts movement in Milton Keynes. Here the left and anti-cuts activists seem to have united to ...
Students at the London School of Economics have taken action against their university's financial and other links with Libya's increasingly tyrannical dictator, Muammar al-Gaddafi. We reproduce their statement below. In the past week Gaddafi has launched a war on demonstrators demanding his overthrow; flying in foreign mercenaries, using snipers to assassinate protesters, and ordering military ...
Report posted by the leftwing Bazr student group The Arab spring has reached Tehran. It is the morning of February 14 and crowds are already gathering. People are exchanging smiles even if they don’t know each other. Security forces are trying to stop shopkeepers shutting their businesses, but most don’t pay any attention. Vassl Square: I am ...
James Turley reports on the annual conference of Hands Off the People of Iran The recent revolts in Egypt, Tunisia and many other parts of the Arab world have had a profound effect on global politics. Given the enormous strategic importance of the region, all manner of political forces will try to turn ...
Manchester Communist Students are holding a meeting next week on Wednesday the 23rd of February, 6pm at the University of Manchester's Student Union, on the International Student Movement. We shall also be holding a number of street stalls to advertise this event. The event shall see speakers from Britain, Austria and Turkey each reporting on their ...