Tag Archives: capitalist crisis

Opposition fails to show

Michael Copestake reports from the 2012 Communist Students conference This year’s Communist Students conference took place in London over the weekend of June 9-10 against a background of controversy and intra-organisational struggle - up to and including a recent coup attempt against the elected leadership by comrades in Manchester CS branch around Chris Strafford. As such, ...

National event: Fighting For Marxism On Campus

Karl Marx: News of the Coming Revolt

Saturday October 17 2009 Manchester University Student Union, Oxford Road Meeting Room 1, 10am - 6pm Capitalism is in its deepest crisis since the 1930s. The world is at an historic turning point. The crisis comes at an enormous human cost – soaring unemployment, house repossessions, wage cuts and attacks on basic services and social security provision. The ...

Break with sect ‘broad fronts’

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 ...