By James O'Leary. Yesterday Comrades from Communist Students marched in the NUS organised demonstration in London in protest against the governments proposed reforms to higher education. These reforms are likely to marketise the higher education system, turning it into something more similar to the system in America, allowing different universities to charge differing fees of between ...
The occupying students have released the statement below. Their blog is at http://www.manunioccupation.blogspot.com/ “Students at Manchester Univeristy have peacefully occupied the John Owens Building and are lobbying the finance board over the Coalition’s attacks on higher education. “We are demanding that the University opens its books so that we know where the ...
Click below to view the PDF. Words by James Turley.
Bulletin being distributed by members of Manchester Communist Students this week. Click below to see the PDF. 900 copies of this issue were handed out. We would love for more students and staff to get involved!
Ben Lewis reports on the Stop the War Coalition’s annual conference, where underhand methods were once again deployed to reject the affiliation of Hands Off the People of Iran. Around 300 people attended the very ‘business as usual’ Stop the War Coalition annual conference on October 30. On offer were more or less the same timetable, ...
Communist Students are holding a dayschool on the 4th of December to discuss the pressing issues facing the student movement and the perspectives and strategy of our own organisation. The school is open to all, not just members of CS, and there will be plenty of time for questions and debate after a short introduction. ...
Ben Bawerk reports on the conference of the Education Activist Network On Sunday November 1 around 400 students and lecturers (mainly the former) filled King’s College Strand campus to attend the Education Activist Network conference. EAN is the latest ‘broad front’ group of the Socialist Workers Party in the student movement following the ...
Mike Copestake reports on the Oct 23rd demonstration against cuts organised by Yorkshire and Humber TUC The demonstration, which attracted over 200 people, had a good atmosphere despite pouring rain. Speakers at the rally were drawn from the local trade union movement and Labour party, the latter enjoying somewhat of a resurgence now it is no ...
We would urge people in Lancashire to attend this, unless they are at the NUS demo in London that day.
Manchester branch have been distributing the discussion article by Sebastian Osthoff on this leaflet.
In this discussion article, Sebastian Osthoff analyses capitalist education and argues for student/worker control of universities, as a step in the direction of a complete abolition of capitalist logic within education. When talking about fighting cuts in higher education we must first consider the fact that education in capitalism is a commodity, as is everything else. ...
Below is the text of the leaflet members of Communist Students will be distributing at the EAN conference tomorrow, Sunday 31st October. Highlighting the fact that Marxists will probably be in a majority at the event, it calls for unity of the student left on the basis of radical socialist politics, not lowest-common-denominator policies designed ...
Please see the motion which is being put forward for debate at the last session of the conference. 1. After “our task is to build this resistance”, insert: “We must rally our forces to combat the cuts and the ideology that promotes them. At all times we must articulate our ...