Sheffield branch meetings: Mondays, 7pm, in one of the Union meeting rooms. Phone Mohsen for more info on 07949 763 130 or email sheffield@communiststudents.org.uk
Sheffield branch are currently studying new book Revolutionary Strategy and participating in the post-occupation campaign for Palestine. We are building for a dayschool on War and Capitalism on May 2nd. We recently had a candidate for President in the elections to Sheffield uni Student’s Union (Laurie McCauley), and were active in pushing the recent occupation of the Hicks building, demanding the University provide assistance to the people of Gaza after the brutal assault by Israel.
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Occupied Sheffield
Sheffield University became the 34th university to be occupied on Monday March 16 when students took control of two lecture theatres in the Hicks building right outside the Student’s Union. The willingness of students to act in a radical fashion has been thoroughly inspiring, and this has been no different in Sheffield. Clearly, new layers of students are starting to see through the lies of the British state and the imperialist project it pursues. Solidarity with the people has become a symbol for a shifting political consciousness amongst students and this can only be welcomed.
Down with bureaucratic banality! Fight for Marxism!
Laurie McCauley, Communist Students candidate for President of Sheffield University Student’s Union, reports on the elections now the results are in. This year’s election yielded few surprises. The campaigns of the right wing and the genuinely apolitical have consisted of the usual mixture of uncontroversial, token policies, appalling slogans and embarrassing gimmicks. Nods toward the environment and the starving millions have been supplemented with promises to negate the effects of the financial crisis on students at Sheffield.
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