As expected, the Reclaim the Campus conference on May 17 did not cohere the student left around a worthwhile set of principled politics. Instead it was a rebranding exercise for Education Not for Sale, the Alliance for Workers' Liberty's student front. Ben Klein reports The Reclaim the Campus conference was meant to refocus and broaden Education ...
by Laurie Smith, Communist Students The five rebel delegates from Sheffield University who broke a mandate to vote for the NUS governance review were called to a disciplinary hearing on Wednesday 14th. We were found guilty of breaking the mandate imposed by SRC (Student Representative Council) and have been banned from delegate elections for a year. At ...
First published in the Weekly Worker May 1st The Tories are a far bigger threat than BNP, says James Turley The numbers speak for themselves: across the country, 12 local councils have passed into the overall control of the Conservatives, who now hold 65 in total to Labour's 18. The Tories are the largest fraction (though nevertheless ...
First published in the Weekly Worker May 1st Around 30 people attended the annual Communist University North - an event jointly sponsored by Communist Students and the CPGB. Ben Klein and Carey Davies report Comrade Yassamine Mather from Hands Off the People of Iran kicked off the school with a session on ‘Imperialism and Iran'. Giving a brief ...
This statement was first published on the ENS website (link). Five members of Sheffield University SU’s delegation to the 2008 NUS conference face disciplinary action following their refusal to vote in line with a “mandate” imposed on them by their Union’s Council in favour of the NUS Governance Review. The threatened punishment is a permanent exclusion from ...
CS executive statement on the teacher's strike called for tomorrow, Thursday 24th April. The strike is being called by the National Union of Teachers (NUT) and the University and College Union (UCU) in protest at low pay. Communist Students calls on all students to support the striking teachers, lecturers and civil servants. Further Education lecturers ...
By Laurie Smith Communist Students stood two more candidates in the second round of elections to the Sheffield Student Union executive. As reported in the WW712, our first round candidates Ted North (Education) and Laurie Smith (President) received just over 5% of the first and second preference votes, and I was elected as a delegate to NUS ...
The National Union of Students annual conference saw a tactical defeat for the right, but the left would be wrong to celebrate too much. Dave Isaacson reports from Blackpool One policy issue dominated all others in the run-up to this year’s conference - the governance review. As we have previously warned, this was an attempt by ...
Chris Strafford, a member of Communist Students and Hands Off The People of Iran, is standing for the NUS Block of 12. This is his election manifesto As the right-wing NUS bureaucracy prepares to gut what remains of the union's democratic structures, the fight for free education faces a growing series of setbacks, and resurgent student ...
The right-wing Labour bureaucracy in the NUS needs to be driven out of office - but not all ‘socialists' deserve a vote. By Jojo Palmer Communist Students call on all delegates to only vote for candidates who: 1. Oppose the governance review. 2. Oppose the occupation of Iraq and Afghanistan, stand for the immediate and unconditional withdrawal of ...
Although the NUS is hardly the fighting organisation that students need, we must defeat the right-wing attacks on democracy in the NUS - and the April 1-3 conference is the last chance to stop the bureaucrats. By Tina Becker It wasn't really a surprise that at the NUS extraordinary conference on December 4 2007 just over ...
Communists argue against sectional politics - but the attacks on the organisational structrues for lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender people within the NUS must be resisted. By Nigel Davis The formation of gay liberation movements during the 1970s reflected a rising level of radicalised anger among marginalised LGBT minorities, influenced most clearly by the 1969 ...