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Convention against fees and cuts: we need openness and democracy

Posted on February 4th 2010 | No comments

Dave Isaacson argues for a united revolutionary student organisation

Confused? Us too.
On Saturday February 6 student activists from across the country will be attending the National Convention Against Fees and Cuts hosted by University College London Students for Free Education. The organisers have written that the convention “aims to strengthen and broaden the campaigns against cuts, [...]

Letter to AEIP and ENS on left unity

Posted on February 3rd 2010 | 2 comments

Below is a letter which we emailed to both Another Education is Possible and Education Not for Sale on January 29.
Dear comrades,
we understand that Another Education is Possible and Education Not for Sale are in talks, along with Daf Adley (NUS LGBT Chair) and Bellavia Ribeiro-Addy (NUS Black students Chair), about the possiblity of standing [...]

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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CS meeting at SOAS: what we fight for

Posted on December 11th 2009 | No comments
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[ December 15, 2009; 7:00 pm to 9:00 pm. ] Our London branch now have a new base at SOAS, where our meetings will be held from now on. At our final meeting of the year CS member Nick Jones will be introducing our politics to SOAS and other students and making suggestions for how we can agitate, educate and organise in 2010. There will [...]

Jesus the communist

Posted on December 10th 2009 | 6 comments
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Laurie McCauley reports and Zuri Zurowski comments on a meeting attended by Christians and communists
On December 8, Jack Conrad of the CPGB spoke on ‘Jesus: prophet, son of god, or revolutionary?’ at the School of Oriental and African Studies, addressing a meeting organised by Communist Students. It was attended by around 25 people from a [...]

CS member on ‘News 24′ defending women’s liberation

Posted on November 24th 2009 | No comments

The ongoing row over Men’s groups who deal with men’s “issues” has now gone national. Last night Caitriona Rylance (Manchester Communist Students and CS Executive) defended women’s liberation on BBC News 24, against Alex Linsey, founder of Man Collective Oxford- video below. Cat also appeared in the Guardian [...]

Manchester CS dayschool report

Posted on October 22nd 2009 | 1 comment
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Over 20 people attended the Communist Students day school in Manchester on Saturday October 17. Most were from the city, where our comrades have been working hard to build the event, though there was a good contingent from London and the south.
Entitled ‘Fighting for Marxism on campus’, the day school was intended to introduce the [...]

Oxford public meeting – capitalism’s crisis and the communist alternative

Posted on October 20th 2009 | 1 comment
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[ October 27, 2009; 7:30 pm to 9:30 pm. ] Oxford Communist Students are hosting our first public meeting on Tuesday October 27, in the Judges room at Oxford Town Hall. The meeting will start at 7.30pm and will be addressed by Mike Macnair – a leading member of the Communist Party of Great Britain and author of the recent book Revolutionary strategy: Marxism and [...]

Oxford freshers report

Posted on October 15th 2009 | No comments
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Many students are completely inexperienced politically, but are beginning to question the system, write Ted North and Dave Isaacson in Oxford
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Members of Communist Students and the Communist Party of Great Britain are currently involved in giving Marxist politics a much needed boost in Oxford. We began by organising a stall outside Oxford University [...]

Looking for the Left: London fresher’s report

Posted on October 12th 2009 | 2 comments
Our well-stocked stall at SOAS

Our well-stocked stall at SOAS
With a new issue of Communist Student (our 8th) in hand, CS members have been organising stalls at campuses around the capital during freshers week. The economic crisis and continuing destructiveness of imperialism is definitely making more students receptive to left-wing ideas, and we had many interesting discussions with students about [...]

 
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