Our London branch now have a new base at SOAS, where our meetings will be held from now on. At our final meeting of the year CS member Nick Jones will be introducing our politics to SOAS and other students and making suggestions for how we can agitate, educate and organise in 2010. There will ...
On Saturday December 5, around 50,000 activists took part in the London ‘blue wave’ demonstration against climate change. Ben Lewis was there Organised by the Stop Climate Chaos campaign, the protest was conceived as a way of building up pressure on the great and the good assembled for the UN climate summit in Copenhagen. The event ...
Men’s societies in universities and colleges have nothing to do with promoting equality, argues Chris Strafford Over the last few years there has been a growing trend of reactionary moves against women’s representation and the women’s movement, and this has been reflected in universities and colleges. A common argument now being put forward by everyone from the ...
Ben Lewis reports on the green movement protest outside the Iranian embassy in London and the positive reception Hopi received On Monday December 7, Hands Off the People of Iran activists attended a demonstration outside the Iranian embassy to mark Students Day. It was particularly important for those outside Iran to express our solidarity because this ...
Laurie Smith reports and Zuri Zurowski comments on a meeting attended by Christians and communists On December 8, Jack Conrad of the CPGB spoke on ‘Jesus: prophet, son of god, or revolutionary?’ at the School of Oriental and African Studies, addressing a meeting organised by Communist Students. It was attended by around 25 people from a ...
Alistair Darling’s pre-budget report includes a ‘supertax’ on bankers’ bonuses. James Turley calls for more The bankers are at it again. In spite of their new status as national hate-figures and pariahs, which has even extended - if only in words - to the political establishment, the rapid approach of the festive season has once again ...
On December 1st Manchester Communist Students hosted Israeli socialist and anti-Zionist Moshé Machover at the University of Manchester Students’ Union. This talk focuses on comrade Machover’s understanding that the oppression faced by Palestinians cannot be overcome without a change in the balance of forces on a regional scale. He also discusses his understanding of colonialism, either ...
CS London are hosting a festive meeting at SOAS (School of Oriental and African Studies) student union next Tuesday. Jack Conrad, author of 'Fantastic Reality: Marxism and the politics of religion' and member of the Communist Party of Great Britain will be discussing the historical Jesus and the role of religion in capitalist society. All welcome- ...
Robbie Folkard (Manchester CS and UMSU LGBT General Member) reports on the massive demonstration and opposition to homophobia. Around 2000 people took part in the March Against Homophobia in Liverpool last Sunday. This was an unexpectedly high turnout, and the biggest demonstration in Liverpool for years. The horror and revulsion at the recent wave of homophobic ...
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Matthew Cobb, lifelong communist and author of ‘Resistance: The French Fight Against the Nazi’s’ spoke on the role of communists in the movement to expel the Nazi occupiers and overthrow the colloborationist government under Marshall Petain. He gave comrades an account of the myriad of resistance groups and the oppression they faced both in the occupied and non-occupied zone.
The ongoing row over Men's groups who deal with men's "issues" has now gone national. Last night Cat Rylance (Manchester Communist Students and CS Executive) defended women's liberation on BBC News 24, against Alex Linsey, founder of Man Collective Oxford- video below. Cat also appeared in the Guardian yesterday.
These videos were recorded at our dayschool in Manchester on October 17th, 'Fighting for Marxism on campus'. Click here for a report of the school. Cat Rylance: Internationalism Chris Strafford on 'CS: Who we are and what we fight for'
Dave Isaacson condemns leading SWP members who continually undermine and sabotage attempts to forge rank and file organisation There was one significant omission in Jim Moody’s article on the sell-out of the postal strike by the Communication Workers Union leadership, which allowed CWU president Jane Loftus to come out of it looking rather good, when actually ...