SWP actually aids the imperialists, writes Ben Lewis Around 200 people crammed into the School of Oriental and African Studies on April 27 for a Campaign Iran public meeting entitled 'Obama and Iran'. Doubtless the high turnout was partly due to the fact that - alongside the CI, Campaign Against Sanctions and Military Intervention in Iran ...
James Turley calls for a serious treatment of the national question by the left Apart from the debate around Hopi which closed the Stop the War Coalition conference on April 25, proceedings were mostly dull to the point of being soporific. One of the few other exceptions was the emergency motion dealing with the crisis in ...
Struggles in Iran Bulletin - 29/4/2009 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 ...
Information collection and barriers to the free movement of people are far from legitimate, writes Ted North Over recent weeks many woolly-eyed liberal types seem to have discovered that her majesty's police force is not the shining beacon of civilisation they had long taken it for. The quasi-mythical 'bobby on the beat' has developed a ...
Obama's release of the infamous 'torture memos' begs more questions than it answers, writes James Turley Upon entering office in January, US president Barack Obama judged it a priority to cement the goodwill offered him by his broad liberal support base. To rapturous applause from allcomers, he announced the closure of the torture camp in Guantanamo ...
Chris Strafford identifies a virtual split in the ruling class over current police tactics that we should use Following the death of Ian Tomlinson at the April 1 G20 protest, the policing of recent demonstrations has come under close scrutiny. After their initial account of the incident was exposed as clearly false, thanks to the numerous ...
James Turley calls for minority workers to organise in active unity as workers, in defence of the democratic rights of all Last week’s highly publicised ‘anti-terrorist’ raid in the north-west provoked the usual anti-migrant and anti-Muslim reaction in the rightwing press. Those detained are suspected of plotting an “Easter spectacular”, in the slightly distasteful words of ...
Struggles in Iran Bulletin - 23/4/2009 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 ...
Angry parents from Lewisham are occupying the school in protest at Lewisham Council's decision to move pupils and teachers three miles away to another site. The school is a grade 2 listed building that is recognised of national importance. The school has been at the heart of community life for many years. Communist Students fully support ...
Communist Students are extremely worried about the well being of comrade Mohammad Pour Abdollah in Iran. As regular readers will be aware the he was held in solitary confinement for over a month in Evin prison. Abdollah has been severely interrogated and tortured during in his imprisonment. Abdollah has since been moved to Qezel Hesar ...
Video of the recent day of action in Manchester, in solidarity with students arrested in Iran for opposing the theocratic regime there.
CS CONFERENCE 2009 - The Bloomsbury Suite, University of London Union, AGENDA: 9.30 onwards: REGISTRATION 10.00-10.15: Welcome and review of 2008: - Nicholas Jones 10.15-11.00: Communist Students and Capitalist Crisis - Chris Strafford 11.00-11.45: Gaza and the student occupations - Cat Rylance 11.45-12.30: LUNCH 12.30-13.15: ‘Organising School Students’ - Callum Williamson 13.15-14.00: ‘Marxism and the education we fight ...
This is the leaflet Communist Students were distributing at Saturday's 'student coordination'. (Click here or on pic to view the PDF) A report on the day's events will be up soon. Our motion to conference on Gaza, the student movement, and Marxism is also on there, but as it turned out no motions were taken on ...