At the founding conference of Communist Students in Sheffield on Saturday December 9, some 20 comrades, most of them not members of the CPGB, were present. Ted North reports Tina Becker began the conference with a speech addressing ...
Dave Isaacson reports from the so-called ‘conference’ of Student Respect, which attracted no more than 80 people - a reflection of the state of the organisation nationally On Sunday December 3 Student Respect held its conference at the ...
BNP leaders Nick Griffin and Mark Collett were recently cleared of inciting racial hatred at Leeds Crown Court. The results of the court case confirms the idiocy of relying on the state to deal with the BNP. It's given them publicity money just cant buy. But what is the BNP and how should socialists fight it? The ...
John McDonnell campaign meeting 30th Oct, Victoria Hall, Sheffield, about 50 present The meeting was introduced by John Campbell, Labour councillor, chairman of Sheffield Trades Union Council and Sheffield UAF. The first speaker was Martin Mayer of the TGWU general council. He gave an unsurprising intro, telling us there was much anger at New Labour (really?), ...
David Isaccson Reports: On Thu, 2006-11-16 at 19:29 +0000, david isaacson wrote: Comrades, it seems the Unite Against Fascism national office has gone mad and is threatening it own activists with legal action for handing out leaflets. Of course it is not maddness - there is politics behind this. For the UAF leadership (most notably ...
The following communication was received from the Dundee University Socialist Society The following letter was agreed following a meeting of the Student Socialist Society at Dundee University. We are contacting people / societies / organisations who we feel may share our concerns over the Student Advisory Service permitting the presence of SBCCU (special branch) on campus ...
The October 29 student mobilisation against attacks on the right to education should be just the beginning of the campaign to beat off the government. More of the same sort of timid gestures from the NUS leadership will be worse than useless. Unless the fight against fees is won to a fundamentally different political approach, ...
The left in the student movement needs a cultural revolution. That is what Communist Students is in business to fight for, writes Ellie James The lead-up to the October 29 student demo against fees in central London has seen the NUS left busying itself with the usual sort of petty factional squabbles that discredit it in ...
The idea of Communist Students first saw the light of day at an informal gathering of students members and sympathisers of the Communist Party of Great Britain, plus other comrades, back in August. Since then, we have signed up hundreds of people at freshers fairs round the country, got this first broadsheet out, held public meetings ...
In January of this year, Carey Davies stood on a communist platform for student union president at Sheffield University. He won 78 votes and got a lot of stick for parts of his platform - including from some comrades on the left of the Education Not for Sale campaign. He explains the reasoning behind some ...
All democrats and socialists should fight against the government’s plans to encourage university staff spy on “Asian-looking” or muslim students, says David Isaacson The leaked document from the department for education and skills proposing that university staff spy on “Asian-looking” or muslim students and inform special branch of anyone who might be involved in islamic extremism ...
The October 29 student demonstration against the further marketisation of higher education was uninspired and timid. Ben Lewis and Dave Isaacson report Sunday October 29 saw around 4,000 students march in London against proposals ...
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