Below is a collection of some of the struggles that are going on within Iran at this time. As the situation is constantly changing we hope to keep as many people up to date with bulletins when we can get them out. There are many practical things you can do as an individual or as ...
'Basti' from the Revolutionary Socialist Organisation in Switzerland gave a talk on 'Marxism, Crisis and Youth at the Manchester Communist Students branch meeting on May 12th which was attended by comrades from University of Manchester, Manchester Metropolitan University and Manchester College. His speech gave an analysis of the crisis of capitalism and how marxists should ...
On Tuesday 5th May around 100 people gathered at Friends Meeting House, Euston for the public launch of a new initiative entitled the 'United Campaign Against Police Violence' (UCAPV). A press release issued before the meeting outlined the provisional committee of the campaign as composed of delegates from organizations established by the friends and families of ...
Ted North reviews Martin Smith's Why ‘British jobs for British workers’ won’t solve the crisis: why we need jobs for all Socialist Workers Party, 2009, pp26, £1.50 To be fair to Martin Smith, his short pamphlet gives some useful facts ...
Nationalise drug companies under democratic control, says James Turley The British media has managed to get itself into yet another incredible panic over a viral contagion. Having stubbornly failed to be devastated by severe acute respiratory ...
Facebook (FB) is a peculiar world occupied by office workers, students and the unemployed. On it you can follow the latest intrigues of this or that friend, stalk the weirdest sectarians and at times find out somebody’s politics by where they post. The RMT, the Stalinist CPB and the “Trotskyist” Socialist Party of England and ...
The occupation tactic is spreading, students, workers and parents their all at it. Parents in Greenwich have taken to occupying the school to stop it being closed in September by the Council. They have released the below statement: "Following a false consultation parents at Charlotte Turner have occupied their school. We have protested outside the town ...
Across the country, university staff are facing growing redundancies, increased hours and heavier workloads – the only thing shrinking is their pay packets. The Universities and Colleges Employers Association (UCEA) has sparked this dispute by offering workers a desultory 0.3% pay offer! In real terms, this is a cut as inflation runs at 2.9%. On ...
Members from Manchester and Sheffield Communist Students attended the May Day march and rally in Manchester. It was a small affair attracting between 400 and 500 people. We distributed copies of Communist Student, the Weekly Worker and HOPI 'Smash the Sanctions' leaflets. Below is a report from the blog Infantile and Disorderly, which is run by ...
Faced with massive job cuts, workers at London Metropolitan University have voted to strike. The strike will take place on May 7, and is a one day strike. This does leave the door open to further action in the furture and also action short of strike. The National Union of Students has come out against lecturers ...
On international workers day students, workers and women are gathering in Laleh Park, Tehran and across Iran to protest against imperialism, the economic crisis and the authoritarian theocratic state. The regime has done everything in it can since coming to power to put an end to the demonstrations, arrests, torture and the threat of executions ...
On April 30 two members of Communist Students in Manchester attended the Manchester launch of the Left Nationalist No 2 EU - Yes To Democracy campaign. The attendance was a paltry eight, and of those eight three were from the Morning Star’s CPB, one from the Socialist Party of England and Wales (SPEW), one from ...
Communist Students puts forward the only politics that can emancipate humanity. Chris Strafford reports On April 26 members of Communist Students gathered in central London to thrash out our perspectives for the coming period and to look critically at our work over the last year. In spite of numerous apologies because of exams, essays and poor options ...