Peyman Piran is a leading student activist in Iran who was forced to flee after being involved in anti war and anti regime protests. At the moment he is in a detention centre in Norway awaiting a decision which could see him returned to Iran. If like many other exiles he is returned his life ...
- We at the Student Co-ordination Meeting of April 18: -Welcome the brave action and militancy of nearly 40 campuses across the country - debunking the myth that students are passive, cynical and apolitical. -Recognise that it is incumbent upon revolutionaries to deepen and politicise the outrage against this onslaught - crucially by struggling for a new ...
Twenty students at Noushirvan University in Babol were prevented from entering the campus, insulted, and beaten by the University Guards and plainclothes security officers who met them in front of the campus on 13 April 2009. Students at Noushirvan University started an unlimited sit in on 11 April 2009, after they were threatened by university authorities ...
Sheffield branch are organising this dayschool for May 2nd. Speakers TBC. The event will be followed by a social with food and music at the Three Cranes in the city centre. The occupation at Sheffield University showed the willingness of students to take direct action in support of the oppressed. But what sort of strategy does ...
The annual conference of Communist Students is our highest decision-making body and the only one which can change our platform and constitution. The executive have set the date of April 26th (Sunday) for this year’s conference, which will be in London. Exact time and place will be confirmed nearer the date. The provisional agenda drafted ...
Scandals involving Jacqui Smith, Tony Macnulty, and Geoff Hoon are just the tip of an iceberg, says Ben Lewis Against a backdrop of popular outrage over ‘greedy bankers’, there has been a rash of scandals over MPs’ expenses. Whereas it was the Conservatives who came under fire in January 2008 when it was revealed that Tory MP ...
Police thugs randomly searched and brutalised G20 protesters. Chris Strafford reports The G20 summit saw thousands of people protest outside the Bank of England on April 1. The demonstration was called by a variety of groups under the banner of G20 Meltdown. From early on the police had protesters hemmed in a ‘kettle’, which restricted access, compacted the ...
The optimistic notes sounded by world leaders after the G20 summit ring hollow, says James Turley Amid energetic protests, the G20 group of world leaders - representatives from Argentina, Australia, Brazil, Canada, China, France, Germany, India, Indonesia, Italy, Japan, Mexico, Russia, Saudi Arabia, South Africa, South Korea, Turkey, the United Kingdom and the United States, along ...
Dave Isaacson responds to the Revo national committee The letter from the Revolution national committee claims to be a response to the letter sent to them by the Communist Students executive, yet it completely fails to deal with the issues which we raised. For the most part it is simply a restatement of their belief that ...
Communists must do their utmost to overcome illusions in the potential for capitalism’s top representatives to deliver, writes John Sidwell The past week has seen another financial institution fall by the wayside. This time Scotland’s biggest building society, the Dunfermline. The extent of the crisis beyond the financial sector is also clear. We are dealing with ...
Abolish MI5 and the whole secret state, writes James Turley Binyam Mohamed is one of the many victims of the state’s ‘war on terrorism’ since the September 11 attacks on New York and Washington in 2001. Mohamed, an Ethiopian-born British resident, was released from the American interrogation camp at Guantanamo Bay after seven years imprisonment. He had ...
Members of Manchester Hands Off the People of Iran and supporters from the Iranian community held a demonstration in solidarity with the Iranian students’ movement on March 25. The demonstrators held pictures of the recently arrested students and carried a banner which read, ‘Free our comrades’. We called the demonstration in solidarity with members of the ...
Reactionary ideas are the ideas that allow the right to do its job, writes James Turley British voters have before them the first major election since the onset of the economic crisis, when June’s European parliament ballot rolls around. The Labour Party anticipates a drubbing, short of a miracle between now and June, and much has been ...