Posted on February 15th 2010 |
Laurie McCauley reports on last Saturday’s surprisingly positive conference of leftwing student activists
Over 100 student activists gathered on Saturday February 6 for the Convention Against Cuts and Fees. Hosted by University College London Students for Free Education and given the green light by both the Socialist Workers Party’s and Alliance for Workers’ Liberty’s student fronts, [...]
Posted on February 4th 2010 |
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, [...]
Posted on February 3rd 2010 |
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 [...]
Posted on January 14th 2010 |
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 [...]
Posted on December 10th 2009 |
Men’s societies in universities and colleges have nothing to do with promoting equality, argues Chris Strafford
Over the last few years there has been a growing trend of reactionary moves against women’s representation and the women’s movement, and this has been reflected in universities and colleges.
A common argument now being put forward by everyone from the [...]
Posted on November 24th 2009 |
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 [...]
Posted on October 30th 2009 |
Postal workers' support group meeting
Building solidarity in Manchester- Chris Brandler reports
Students in Manchester have established a campaign in solidarity with postal workers. It involves comrades from the Socialist Workers Party, Communist Students, the Alliance for Workers’ Liberty and Anarchist Federation, as well as non-aligned leftwing individuals.
We sent delegations to picket lines last week and will [...]
Posted on October 22nd 2009 |
Things did not go according to plan for the SWP, writes Huw Sheridan
In the squash court beneath Wadham College bar about 40 students gathered on October 15 for an Oxford Socialist Worker Student Society meeting with Alex Callinicos, a leading member of the Socialist Workers Party central committee and noted academic, who was billed [...]
Posted on October 19th 2009 |
No Deportations to Iran!
Sheida Jahanbin, a former member of the Freedom and Equality Seeking Students in Iran, is facing deportation from the Netherlands where she resides in exile. Sheida is twenty seven years old. She was a student of Architecture and Graphic Design at the Azad University of Tehran before she was forced to abandon [...]
Posted on October 15th 2009 |
Many students are completely inexperienced politically, but are beginning to question the system, write Ted North and Dave Isaacson in Oxford
students in Oxford
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 [...]
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