Things did not go according to plan for the SWP, writes Huw Sheridan In the squash court beneath Wadham College bar about 40 students gathered on October 15 for an Oxford Socialist Worker Student Society meeting with Alex Callinicos, a leading member of the Socialist Workers Party central committee and noted academic, who was billed ...
The wars in Afghanistan and Iraq have conclusively demonstrated a single, simple proposition, writes James Turley: imperialism has no progressive role to play Following months of foot-dragging and not a little strong-arming from his paymasters abroad, the Afghan president, Hamid Karzai, has finally been induced to call a second round of elections after August’s vote. The official ...
Liverpool postie Dave Carr explains why students should back the Postal Strike and build solidarity on campus. 1. Why are postal workers striking? The reason the CWU are giving is because Royal Mail are failing to honour the agreement struck to end the 2007 strikes. Many changes have been made, but Royal Mail now wishes ...
Sheida Jahanbin, a former member of the Freedom and Equality Seeking Students in Iran, is facing deportation from the Netherlands where she resides in exile. Sheida is twenty seven years old. She was a student of Architecture and Graphic Design at the Azad University of Tehran before she was forced to abandon her studies and ...
The sign on the door of the Women’s Library said it all. The private view of the exhibition “Striking Women” had been cancelled – due to strike action! Stuart King reports on the ongoing struggle at the London Met against cuts and redundancies. The pickets were out again on Thursday and Friday last week in the ...
With a new issue of Communist Student (our 8th) in hand, CS members have been organising stalls at campuses around the capital during freshers week. The economic crisis and continuing destructiveness of imperialism is definitely making more students receptive to left-wing ideas, and we had many interesting discussions with students about such varied topics as ...
RALLY OUTIDE THE ISRAELI EMBASSY - No to oppressive arrests! - No to prisoners of conscience! - No to occupation! Israeli occupation forces detained Mohammad Othman on the 22nd of September, 2009. Mohammad was detained while trying to return to the West Bank over the border from Jordan. Mohammad has spent the summer touring Europe, and was returning ...
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Members of Communist Students backed up by supporters of the 'Hands Off the People of Iran' campaign ran stalls and meetings throughout the week. This is a quick photo report that will be followed up by a national report over the next week.
On 17th October Manchester Communist Students are hosting a dayschool open to CS members and all interested in finding out more about our politics. Click on the image to the left to read our leaflet publicising the event. CS members- click the link below for a printable, high-res version. marxismoncampus-copyset.tif (ZIP archive)
Sheida Jahanbin, a former member of the Freedom and Equality Seeking Students in Iran, is facing deportation from the Netherlands where she resides in exile. Sheida is twenty seven years old. She was a student of Architecture and Graphic Design at the Azad University of Tehran before she was forced to abandon her studies and ...
We feature here two videos of sessions from Communist University where members of Communist Students gave the introductory opening talks. To see which other videos are available, please visit the CPGB's Vimeo video channel at: http://vimeo.com/cpgb 'Capitalism's crisis: how do we organise?' Ben Lewis of Communist Students and the CPGB speaks alongside Hillel Ticktin, Moshe Machover and ...
Members of Manchester Communist Students joined thousands of people at Manchester Pride and participated in the 'Pride is a Protest' bloc and picnic. The 'Pride is a Protest' contingent brought together a diverse mixture of left and radical student organisations such as Education Not for Sale (ENS), Queer Youth Network (QYN), the Anarchist Federation (AF) ...