Sheffield results in
CS candidate elected to be NUS delegate- see the full report at the CS website.
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Video of CS candidates for Sheffield 08
CS stood two candidates for elections to the student union executive at Sheffield University. These videos were taken at the hustings event where candidates are given one-minute speeches and one-minute responses to two cherry-picked questions! Ted North and Laurie Smith- CS candidates for Education Officer and President
Vote Communist Students for Sheffield Union!
Ted North for Education As a member of Communist Students and the CPGB I stand for radical democracy in all spheres of life. The current education system leaves students burdened with massive debts and forced to take low paid jobs, whilst the right wing NUS bureaucracy pathetically whimper for concessions of 'keep the cap' to the greasy ...
Making propaganda for Marxism in elections
A revolutionary platform was too much for some 'revolutionary' students. Mohsen Sabbagh reports Campuses across the country are holding elections for university sabbatical positions as well as National Union of Students conference delegates. Over the last two years Communist Students in Sheffield have attempted to put an end to the apolitical popularity contest these elections usually ...
Motions to CS conference 2008
Motion: Young workers, the Trade Unions, and Communists. Proposer: Chris Strafford The executive shall produce a discussion document on young workers, trade unionism and the IWW. The executive shall schedule a debate on young workers and trade unions at Communist University North. PASSED Amendment to CS platform, 'What we stand for'. Proposer: Chris Strafford Change point 9, which reads: The ...
Truly democratic
Paul Williams comments on the 2008 CS conference When entering any event in which debate will take place, one must always be willing to learn and take on board new ideas. With this in mind I can only begin to describe how splendid I felt on Saturday at the Communist Students Conference, when ideas and ...
No platform and the BNP
Is 'no platforming' an unshakable principle or a tactic? Ted North reports on the discussion among Communist Students The February 16 conference of Communist Students featured a debate on fascism and the tactics needed to defeat it. It was introduced by Ben Klein, who argued that we must start from the premise of independent working class politics ...
Consolidating gains
The second annual conference of Communist Students took place in Manchester on February 16. John Jo Sidwell reports All in all, it had been a good year for Communist Students, as executive members Dave Isaacson and Laurie Smith explained in their introductory remarks. We have fought a number of elections and, though, as expected, we did ...
Student unions must be won to communism
Ted North tells of spreading the message in Sheffield For the third time in three years Communist Students will be contesting student union elections at Sheffield University. Last year our five candidates picked up between 5% and 11% of the vote. Not a bad result, especially as they all stood on an openly revolutionary platform during what ...
Driven by ideas
How should communists approach campus work? In the first place by understanding the contradictory class position of students, argues Mike Macnair in the Weekly Worker
Chris Strafford for NUS block of 12!
CS member Chris Strafford is standing for the NUS block of 12 on a full revolutionary platform. Join the facebook group! Here is his manifesto: As the NUS bureaucracy - ever more firmly in the grip of the right - prepares to gut what remains of the union’s democratic structures, the fight for free education faces ...
Iranian students update
In early December 2007, dozens of socialist Iranian students were arrested for taking part in the National Student Day demonstration. The demonstration's slogans were against war, against poverty, and for freedom and equality: No to imperialist war, death to dictator! The University is not an army garrison! Hands Off the People of Iran! No to criminal imperialist intervention! Equality, Democracy, Boycott the elections! ...
To the People of the World
From the Freedom and Equality Seeking Students of Iran: On behalf of all students in Iran, we express our great appreciation for your efforts in publicizing the news related to the mass arrest of our friends and comrades and your protest against the Islamic republic of Iran. The movement for equality and freedom in Iran ...