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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 [...]

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 [...]

Organising school students video

Posted on May 15th 2009 | No comments

This presentation was made at the Communist Students conference in April 2009. If you would like to get involved, or have any questions, then please get in touch. [...]

Students and Staff: Shoulder to Shoulder!

Posted on May 11th 2009 | 3 comments
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On Thursday May 7 Communist Students were up at the crack of dawn to attend the picket lines at London Metropolitan University, showing our support for the strike action against outrageous cuts proposals following severe mismanagement and bureaucracy. The pickets were quite well attended and there was  a positive mood amongst the strikers. Students largely [...]

Break with sect ‘broad fronts’

Posted on March 23rd 2009 | No comments

Communist Students is preparing the ground for the kind of student movement we need, writes Ben Lewis
Anybody who watches television or reads the newspapers will have noticed that these are not exactly the best of times for the capitalist class. Stock markets have crashed, the banking system nearly went into meltdown and unemployment, house repossessions [...]

Free Education Demonstration: Educate, Agitate, Organise!

Posted on February 26th 2009 | 5 comments
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Wednesday 25 Free Education Demonstration: Educate, Agitate, Organise!
Around 600 students gathered at SOAS University to demand free education and a living grant for all. Although numbers were slightly lower than had been initially expected, it was very encouraging to see students turn out in such numbers in an action that was organised completely independently of [...]

Ten things I hate about the left

Posted on October 11th 2008 | 17 comments
"No, we

"No, we're the People's Front of Judea"
John Pringle takes a light-hearted look at the failings of revolutionary groups

Communism is a system only achievable by the most profound means, the overthrow of the existing social order and its replacement with another, as unrecognisably different as it is improved. Such an undertaking is vast and awe-inspiring. It [...]

Who we are and what we fight for

Posted on September 30th 2008 | 1 comment

From CS Issue 6
The brute facts of student life are rather more harsh than in the past. Grants, not loans. Fixed fees, not free education. Spying on ‘radical’ student groups on campuses. Petty harassment of young people on the streets and authoritarian attempts by the establishment to micro-manage our lives – from our alcohol intake, [...]

Education Not for Sale: what’s the point?

Posted on September 30th 2008 | No comments

As you amble around your freshers’ fair, you may well come across a handful of excitable young leftists pushing an organisation called Education Not for Sale. They will be against a lot of bad things (but, for reasons we’ll get to later, sheepish on the subject of war). They will be very ‘inclusive’, and keen [...]

Denying democracy

Posted on September 30th 2008 | No comments

We often dub CS’s opponents on the left such as ENS ‘economists’ – but what does that mean?
Economism is an opportunist political trend that denies the central importance of democracy to Marxism. As such it is a broad organism, whose tentacles extend into the lofty heights of political theory and down into the grime of [...]

 
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