Andeesheh Nicko and Roja Bamdad of Iranian Workers Bulletin call for solidarity action to free the kidnapped union leader Iranian Workers Bulletin: www.iranianworkersbulletin.org The campaign to free prominent Iranian union activist Mansour Ossanlou ...
Gordon Brown is seriously considering making it illegal for under-21s to buy alcohol from shops and off-licences, which would be another smack in the face for freedom after the blanket smoking ban introduced this month. The idea has the distinct ring of the headline-grabbing but ultimately unsubstantial policy announcements beloved of Blair. However, while it ...
As well as the platitudes and compromises from bourgeois politicians, the G8 featured protests from thousands who want ‘another world’. Carey Davies reports Firstly, the positives: last week’s protests around Heiligendamm surrounding ...
James Turley reviews Alex Callinico's Universities in a neoliberal world (Bookmarks, 2006, pp41, £2) Within the small pond of the British left, Alex Callinicos is something of a big fish: undoubtedly the most prolific and prodigious theorist in ...
The National Union of Students annual conference was held from March 27-29. Ben Lewis and Dave Isaacson report on the consolidation of rightwing control A “rightwing orgy” is how Student Respect member Assed Baig summed up ...
Elections for the bulk of positions on the NUS NEC take place at annual conference. This year there were fewer candidates than normal for many positions. Sadly this was not because the left had pulled together a ...
David Sabbagh reports on the excellent result that Communist Students achieved in the University of Sheffield elections On March 1 the election results for the University of Sheffield student union sabbatical positions were announced. Naturally members of Communist Students who stood, together with supporters, were present for the results. While we never expected to win, given ...
for the Sheffield Student Union elections 2007 Executive posts Communist Student for president! As a member of Communist Students and the CPGB, I will fight to ensure that Sheffield University is run and controlled by its students and staff. I will seek to create a fighting and politically active Student Union that takes up the fight for free education ...
David Sabbagh and Laurie Smith report from the University of Sheffield student union elections, where five members of CS are standing for office Communist Students stood five candidates for the University of Sheffield student union council sabbatical elections, which end this week. They were Ben Lewis, who stood for union president, David Sabbagh (welfare), Laurie Smith ...
by Eric Lee, Source www.labourstart.org In unions in different countries, we call each other by different names. Some unions use the word 'comrade', others use 'colleague'. And many use the terms 'brother' and 'sister' to describe fellow union members. Are we simply using these words because we always have, or do they still have any real ...
Leading the Alliance for Workers Liberty’s typically slippery response to our coverage of the Socialist Youth Network launch conference reveals an organisation in crisis and rapidly moving to the right, says James ...
After a brief let-up, military conflict between the USA or one of its proxies and Iran is again a serious possibility, with Israeli prime minister Ehud Olmert making ever more belligerent statements over Iran's nuclear capabilities and George Bush announcing a ‘troop surge' in Iraq. These developments have posed sharply the need for the world's anti-war ...
One of the many depressing statistics that surfaced in the wake of this year’s new tuition fees regime, alongside the 15,000 absentees, was a ‘shock study’ by academics at Kingston University into student sex-workers. The research, which asked 130 students whether they knew others who had worked in the sex industry, suggested a 50% rise ...