In the student union elections at Sheffield University, Communist Students will be standing five candidates for sabbatical positions and two candidates for the National Union of Students delegate elections. Unlike other left student groups, they will be standing on an openly revolutionary, socialist platform and all Communist Student readers are urged to give them as ...
Tina Becker reviews Marjane Satrapi’s book Persepolis (Jonathan Cape, 2006, pp343, £12.99) If you haven’t yet got round to reading this highly original look at a young woman’s life in Iran, go and get your copy immediately! The 2006 edition encompasses two separate books: ‘The story of a childhood’ and ‘The story of a return’. Both ...
Since issue No1 of this publication members of Communist Students have been involved in a number of events and activities. In November we distributed copies of Communist Student on national demonstrations against top-up fees and climate change. In December we took the message of communism and democracy to the Student Respect national conference. Our comrade Ben Lewis ...
Ben Lewis spoke to Ahmad Zahedi Langaroudi - a young writer and web blogger, currently involved in the production of the journal Ronak The media are full of stories about Iran supplying weaponry to shia militia in Iraq. What is your take on this? There is no doubt that Iran's islamic republic (I mean the government, not the ...
One of the most controversial debates in the run-up to the founding conference of Communist Students was on the question of fascism and the British National Party, and what the response of revolutionaries should be. The conference adopted a resolution highlighting the necessity of basing any anti-fascist fight on the "mobilisation of the working class ...
The statement from the Communist Students executive regarding comrade Jim Padmore’s resignation from that body contained a factual error which I would like to correct. The statement claims that Jim’s resignation letter (Letters, January ...
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Statement by the CS executive on Jim Padmore's resignation We were puzzled and disappointed to read of Jim Padmore’s decision not to take his place on the Communist Students executive. Puzzled, because his stated reasons do not make much sense. He writes ...
Dave Isaacson reports on the January 13 launch conference of Socialist Youth Network, the Labour Representation Committee’s youth organisation, at the University of London Union The conference started with an opening speech from John McDonnell. He ...
Weekly Worker ‘my favourite’ Tony Benn was one of three Labour Party politicians who addressed conference as guest speakers. His introductory speech was fairly standard, noting the warmongering, anti-working class policies of New Labour. He said New ...
Ben Lewis spoke to Marsha-Jane Thompson, SYN co-chair and one of the conference organisers Looking back to the conference, how do you think it went? I think it went extremely well, although it’s sometimes hard to tell from the ...
There has been public surprise at the revelation that Ms. Lilliput Duchamp, of the Swindon Ballet Troupe, is a practising communist. "What can I say? A planned economy just makes sense" Duchamp told the press this morning. "And of course, for real freedom and the flourishing of art forms such as my own, capitalism will ...
James Padmore, elected unopposed to the executive of Communist Students, has sent this letter: I was unable to attend the Communist Students conference in December but, based on the report in the Weekly Worker, it seems that it ...