The left must begin a process of rebuilding the movement and discussing how to create a revolutionary alternative, argues Chris Strafford The economic crisis and the austerity agenda has thrown the working class into largely defensive actions. The trade union leadership has crucially undermined any serious fightback and is offering only token resistance. We have a ...
Cat Rylance gave this speech to the 2012 conference of Stop the War Coalition, on behalf of Communist Students There are lots of motions here today on Iran and Syria, but ours is different. It spells out some issues that other motions don’t. Namely: the government of Iran is not our friend and is not the ...
Callout below: 2010 saw an unprecedented wave of student protest, this was followed in 2011 by a series of mass protest in the Middle East. The student movement has been a breath of fresh air. Now, in order to ensure that this energy is harnessed and not frittered away, we now have to ensure that we ...
Manchester Communist Students are holding a meeting next week on Wednesday the 23rd of February, 6pm at the University of Manchester's Student Union, on the International Student Movement. We shall also be holding a number of street stalls to advertise this event. The event shall see speakers from Britain, Austria and Turkey each reporting on their ...
This weekend will unfortunately see the clash of three different national conferences, all in London. On Saturday the 12th of Feb, Hands Off the People of Iran are holding their annual AGM at the University of London Union on Malet Street from 10am - 5pm. John McDonnell MP will be speaking at the launch of a ...
Leaflet distributed at last week's National Campaign Against Fees and Cuts conference in London.
Bulletin being distributed by members of Manchester Communist Students this week. Click below to see the PDFs. Page 1 Page 2 Page 3 Page 4 850 copies have been printed. More students and workers are encouraged to get involved.
Below is a statement in response to the article by James Turley 'Against the politics of purity' and the statement by Manchester comrades 'No support for Labour - No support for the LRC'. This is part of the debate in the lead up to our conference in March that will decide our perspectives for the ...
At a Communist Students’ Exec meeting on the 13th of December, a decision was made to affiliate to the Labour Representation Committee (LRC). The driving force behind this was Ben Lewis of the Provisional Central Committee of the CPGB, which has recently adopted a set of theses on the Labour Party.[1] Some points of which ...
Sinead Rylance reports on the occupation of the Edmond J Safra Building at Kings College London Around midday on the second national day of action against tuition fees (December 30th) the ‘we support our teachers’ group and some of its supporters occupied the Edmond J Safra building, which has a capacity of ...
Well, what a day. I think all of us are still processing exactly what went on at last Wednesday’s London protest at Whitehall. There were the highs of seeing so many young people rush into Whitehall still wearing their school uniforms, there were the lows of being treated like animals by the state apparatus of ...
Leaflet distributed in Manchester today during the national day of protest against tuition fees and education cuts.
On Monday (22nd November) members from Communist Students joined around 50 students from Manchester Metropolitan University in the occupation of a lecture theatre in the University's Geoffrey Manton building. The occupation was in protest against the cuts to higher education both on a national scale and at their university specifically. ...