Laurie Smith, Communist Students candidate for President of Sheffield University Student's Union, reports on the elections now the results are in This year's election yielded few surprises. The campaigns of the right wing and the genuinely apolitical have consisted of the usual mixture of uncontroversial, token policies, appalling slogans and embarrassing gimmicks. Nods toward the environment ...
Regular readers will be aware of the continued heroic struggle of Iranian students against the Iranian regime. Today four more student leaders and comrades were attacked at home and arrested. Their names are Amirhosein Mohammadifar, Sanaz Allahyari, Nasim Roshanai and Maryam Sheikh all in their early twenties. They all belong to the Freedom and Equality ...
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James Turley examines the unravelling Stanford fraud affair When he first entered British consciousness in any serious way, Allen Stanford was hard to miss. Here was a Texan billionaire, ostentatiously arriving in a monogrammed helicopter to discuss - of all things for a Texan billionaire - a sponsorship deal with the England and Wales Cricket Board ...
This year is the 200th anniversary of the birth of Charles Darwin and the 150th of the publication of his seminal 'On the origin of species by means of natural selection'. Huw Sheridan looks at its importance for communists Charles Robert Darwin died on April 19 1882. Plans for the funeral in his quiet village were ...
Chris Strafford reports on student action against arms dealers recruiting Students at the University of Manchester broke up a stall promoting the arms trade. The ‘Defence, Science and Technology Laboratory’, which is a ministry of defence company, was attempting to lure young scientists to come and help devise new weapons that would no doubt be used ...
Manchester Metropolitan University Students Union has for a very long time been a safe seat for careerists, the student union has been run essentially under the leadership of Labour Students who trick, manipulate and fool students to a point where the students of MMU have no control and no influence over a body which is ...
Manchester Communist Students are calling for as many people as possible to attend the national demonstration in support of Gaza and the student solidarity movement. CS supporters are urged to bring red or Palestinian flags and march with with our banner. from:manuunioccupation.wordpress.com “Now 2 weeks on, University of Manchester students have occupied key buildings in ...
I'm Laurie Smith and I'm standing for President of Sheffield Student's Union 2009. I am a Marxist and a member of Communist Students, and I believe student politics needs to be about more than just personalities and the crushing bureaucracy they inhabit- no wonder hardly anyone votes! When standing before I have always made clear that ...
James Turley looks at the latest moral panic Alfie Patten is an ordinary 13-year-old boy, though he looks younger than his years. He loves “computer games, boxing and Manchester United” (well, nobody’s perfect). But this young teenager has become the epicentre of the latest moral panic to hit Britain. When he was still 12, he had a ...
London School of Economics Houghton Street London WC2 Over time capitalism has repressed freedom of expression in an effort to maintain control over society. In effect capitalism is intolerant of anything that might challenge it. This conference is seeking to explore how capitalism functions, censorship which exists within capitalist societies, and its consequences. Suggested topics include: The importance of freedom of expression and ...
by Laurie Smith Following large protests in the city against Israel's barbarous war on Gaza and an unfortunately short-lived occupation at Hallam University, CS members in Sheffield have been participating in several meetings discussing Palestine and the British movement. These have been well attended, a public meeting at the University attracting over 100 people, and activists ...
After the victory of the wildcat strike at the Lindsey refinery, James Turley draws some lessons Let us begin with the story so far. On January 28, 800 workers at Lindsey oil refinery in Killingholme walked out illegally. They were protesting against the ‘dumping’ of 200 workers of Italian and Portuguese origin in order to fulfil ...