James Turley looks at the unappetising range of candidates in Oldham East and Saddleworth The background to the January 13 Oldham East and Saddleworth by-election is well-known - Phil Woolas, a particularly odious reactionary even by New Labour standards, scraped home in the seat by a margin of 103 votes last May, only to be stripped ...
Below is the text sent around to anti-cuts activists by Glasgow Against Education Cuts. "Either "the year when the Tory-LibDem government finally press the advantage they have created in convincing many people that massive cuts are both necessary and inevitable". Or a year where the students and pupils will come to be seen as only the ...
Sign the petition here We demand the immediate release of Dr. Fariborz Raisdana We have learned the astonishing news of “Dr. Raisdana’s arrest” by the security agents of the Islamic republic on the early morning of December 19th, 2010 at his home in Tehran. Dr. Fariborz Raisdana is a well known intellectual, economist, social activist, and active ...
James Turley takes issue with comrades who oppose our affiliation to the LRC A number of comrades – including some self-identified left-communists – have raised objections to the decision of the Communist Students executive to affiliate CS to the Labour Representation Committee, a grouping of leftists operating in the Labour Party, but open to affiliates and ...
Come to the 5th London Student Assembly. Sunday the 9th of January, 3pm - 6pm. The Venue, 1st Floor, ULU, Malet st, London, WC1. All welcome.
Alfred Stevens throws his two pence into the Callinicos / Penny debate. Think about the most popular chants that you heard on the student marches over the last year. Which ones rung out the loudest? If you were walking anywhere near myself on the 10th, 24th and 30th of November or 8th and 9th of December then ...
At a Communist Students’ Exec meeting on the 13th of December, a decision was made to affiliate to the Labour Representation Committee (LRC). The driving force behind this was Ben Lewis of the Provisional Central Committee of the CPGB, which has recently adopted a set of theses on the Labour Party.[1] Some points of which ...
By Callum Williamson. Thursday 9th of December saw another huge protest in London, one month after the inspirational occupation of the Tory HQ at the Millbank building. The weeks after the HQ incident saw a determined fight by students across the country. School walkouts, demonstrations and university occupations have taken place from Glasgow to Southampton. This ...
Ben Lewis reviews 'The Trotsky', Jacob Tierney (dir), Alliance Films (general release in Canada). Leon Bronstein, a young, privileged Canadian of about 17 and three-quarters, is not your average high school student. How could he be? How would you feel if, on reading Leon Trotsky’s biography My life, you realised that your life was ...
Eager for ammunition, the SWP has delighted in the NSSN's looming split. James Turley reports. Among those who would lead the anti-cuts resistance, sectarianism is reaching the level of tragicomedy. The Socialist Party in England and Wales now intends to use a conference in January to relaunch its National Shop Stewards Network as a pole ...
From Libcom.org - In early December 2010, in the context of struggle against cuts and privatisation, students in university occupations at UCL, Manchester, Sheffield, SOAS, Brighton, Goldsmiths and Bath write a solidarity massage to Iranian students. A few days later, Iranian students inside the country as well as studying abroad respond. To our fellow students in Iran: We ...
Click the image to download PDF. This is the leaflet CS are distributing at today's (09/12/10) demonstration outside Parliament, where MPs are voting on the government's plan to treble tuition fees to up to £9,000 a year.
Sinead Rylance reports on the occupation of the Edmond J Safra Building at Kings College London Around midday on the second national day of action against tuition fees (December 30th) the ‘we support our teachers’ group and some of its supporters occupied the Edmond J Safra building, which has a capacity of ...