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A Revolutionary History of Germany Discussion Series

Posted on January 25th 2010 | No comments
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Manchester Communist Students is launching a series on ‘A Revolutionary History of Germany’ with speakers from across the country and the Left. Everyone is welcome to attend, we always meet every tuesday at 6.30pm at the University of Manchester Students’ Union in Meeting room 2 or 3. Below is a provisional list of dates and subjects: 
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Kautsky, Lenin and the ‘April theses’

Posted on January 15th 2010 | No comments

Below we publish a Karl Kautsky article from April 1917, translated into English for the first time by Ben Lewis. It is introduced by Lars T Lih, a historian based in Canada, who has been at the forefront of re-examining the complex relationship between these two widely misunderstood figures of the 20th century workers’ movement. [...]

Leeds University Union undermines resistance to job cuts

Posted on January 14th 2010 | No comments
LUU Scabs.

LUU Scabs
The executive of Leeds University Union (LUU) has released a statement launching a campaign against any strike action to save jobs. They wrote “It’s time to put your education first” totally forgetting that the only way to save jobs and the education is to take decisive action. If the lecturers fail to take action [...]

Theocracy threatens bloodbath as mass movement grows

Posted on January 11th 2010 | No comments

Iranian workers are on the offensive, reports Chris Strafford
2010 has begun the way 2009 ended in the Islamic Republic of Iran, with millions protesting in cities and towns across the country. But the dangers facing the Iranian people have undoubtedly increased over the last few weeks.
Further sanctions are being put in place, and Obama is [...]

Blind, dumb logic of capitalism

Posted on January 11th 2010 | No comments

James Turley reviews Mark Bould and China Miéville (eds) Red planets: Marxism and science fiction Pluto, 2009, pp293, £19.99

When English literature departments first arose in Anglo-Saxon academia, their purpose was in some ways relatively well defined. The bourgeoisie, so its political allies in the aristocracy and flunkies among the intelligentsia argued, was culturally bereft; worse, [...]

Blue wave needs red vision

Posted on December 10th 2009 | No comments
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On Saturday December 5, around 50,000 activists took part in the London ‘blue wave’ demonstration against climate change. Ben Lewis was there

Organised by the Stop Climate Chaos campaign, the protest was conceived as a way of building up pressure on the great and the good assembled for the UN climate summit in Copenhagen. The event [...]

The Socialist Solutions to the Israel-Palestine Conflict by Moshé Machover (voice files)

Posted on December 2nd 2009 | No comments
Moshé Machover

Moshé Machover
On December 1st Manchester Communist Students hosted Israeli socialist and anti-Zionist Moshé Machover at the University of Manchester Students’ Union. This talk focuses on comrade Machover’s understanding that the oppression faced by Palestinians cannot be overcome without a change in the balance of forces on a regional scale. He also discusses his understanding of colonialism, [...]

London meeting- Jesus: prophet, son of god, or Revolutionary?

Posted on December 2nd 2009 | No comments
Whose ideas will save the world though?

[ December 8, 2009; 7:30 pm to 9:00 pm. ] CS London are hosting a festive meeting at SOAS (School of Oriental and African Studies) student union next Tuesday.

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Jack Conrad, author of ‘Fantastic Reality: Marxism and the politics of religion’ and member of the Communist Party of Great Britain will be discussing the historical Jesus [...]

We need militancy in the Workers and Students movements

Posted on November 28th 2009 | 3 comments

Callum Williamson looks at the need for militancy in the Workers and Students movements
It is an inevitability that this economic downturn will lead to a heightened state of class conflict across the globe. In past weeks 250,000 Irish public sector workers went on strike against wage cuts. In Turkey there have been walk outs [...]

Liverpool March Against Homophobia Report

Posted on November 26th 2009 | No comments
Smash Homophobia

Smash Homophobia
Robbie Folkard (Manchester CS and UMSU LGBT General Member) reports on the massive demonstration and opposition to homophobia.

 
Around 2000 people took part in the March Against Homophobia in Liverpool last Sunday. This was an unexpectedly high turnout, and the biggest demonstration in Liverpool for years. The horror and revulsion at the recent wave of [...]

 
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