Posted on November 26th 2009 |
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 [...]
Posted on February 11th 2009 |
You can now read the second and concluding part of the symposium on ‘Gays and the left’ from the New Politics journal. It can be accessed here: http://www.newpol.org/
We published an introduction to the first part here: http://communiststudents.org.uk/2008/10/gays-and-the-left/
Comrades might also be interested to look at the archives of Gay Left, a journal produced by gay men [...]
Posted on October 13th 2008 |
Christopher Street Gay Liberation Day march, June 1970
Comrades at the US based New Politics journal have produced the first part of a useful ‘Symposium on Gays and the Left’. Gay liberation is an issue that much of the left has historically neglected, and even today groups like the SWP can dismiss fighting for gay rights [...]
Posted on October 10th 2008 |
Transphobia is completely unacceptable, writes Robbie Folkard
A furore has erupted at Manchester University after one set of toilets in the student union building was made gender-neutral, the toilets formerly being ‘ladies’ and ‘gents’ now being merely ‘toilets’ and ‘toilets with urinals’.
The idea was to provide trans (gender-variant) students with toilet facilities where they would no [...]
Posted on May 2nd 2008 |
Vicky Thompson of Hands Off the People of Iran and Chris Strafford of Communist Students report..
‘Socialists’ and the lies they tell
They never fail to surprise. Every time you think the ‘Socialist’ Workers Party cannot sink any lower into the depths of blatant hypocrisy and opportunism, they somehow manage to dive a little deeper.
Last week, we [...]
Posted on April 1st 2008 |
Communists argue against sectional politics – but the attacks on the organisational structrues for lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender people within the NUS must be resisted. By Nigel Davis
The formation of gay liberation movements during the 1970s reflected a rising level of radicalised anger among marginalised LGBT minorities, influenced most clearly by the 1969 [...]
Posted on September 15th 2007 |
First published in Communist Student no.3
Surely, the left fights unequivocally for the rights of all lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender individuals? Unfortunately, it’s not so straightforward, says Nicholas Jones
At first glance, it seems that the issue of rights for lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) people has reached unparalleled prevalence on the far left. Every [...]
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