The Educator, No. 1
Bulletin being distributed by members of Manchester Communist Students this week. Click below to see the PDF. 900 copies of this issue were handed out. We would love for more students and staff to get involved!
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CS dayschool 4th Dec, London
Communist Students are holding a dayschool on the 4th of December to discuss the pressing issues facing the student movement and the perspectives and strategy of our own organisation. The school is open to all, not just members of CS, and there will be plenty of time for questions and debate after a short introduction. ...
CS Motion to STW Conference
Condemn 'Cyber Warfare' Communist Students resolution for StWC National Conference 30 October 2010. Conference notes: 1. The attack on Iran’s nuclear plants and major industrial complexes by the sophisticated ‘Stuxnet’ virus. 2. The highly complex nature of the virus - the first of its kind to target real-world infrastructure such as power stations, water plants, industrial units and machinery. 3. ...
LSE Freshers’ Fair Report
Sinead Rylance reports on Freshers' Fair 2010 at the London School of Economics. Four comrades from Communist students held a stall at LSE’s fresher’s fair on the 28th September. The fresher’s fair was quite lively and there were a lot of stalls outside so we set up with most of the other left groups who also ...
CS 9 Now Online
The ninth issue of Communist Student is now available to download. This piece was distributed at Freshers' Fairs across the country this month. Contact Communist Students for a hard copy.
Conference 2010 Report
Communist Students remains united despite controversial debates, reports Liam Conway The annual conference of Communist Students was held at the University of Manchester student union on April 17. Despite numerous factors preventing comrades from attending (including, yes, the recent volcano eruption in Iceland) it proved a lively day of discussion. Conference began with the usual business of ...
Liverpool March Against Homophobia Report
Robbie Folkard (Manchester CS and UMSU LGBT General Member) reports on the massive demonstration and opposition to homophobia. Around 2000 people took part in the March Against Homophobia in Liverpool last Sunday. This was an unexpectedly high turnout, and the biggest demonstration in Liverpool for years. The horror and revulsion at the recent wave of homophobic ...
Manchester CS: Marx and the Lessons of the Paris Commune
Manchester CS has kicked off the ‘Revolutionary France’ series with a discussion on the lessons of the Paris Commune of 1871, after reading chapter 5 of Karl Marx’s ‘Civil War in France’. Around 20 attended and debated the National Question, a programme to win the Peasantry, the revolutionary party and why such history is not ...
Manchester CS dayschool report
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 ...
Looking for the Left: London fresher’s report
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 such varied topics as ...
Photo report of Manchester freshers
Members of Communist Students backed up by supporters of the 'Hands Off the People of Iran' campaign ran stalls and meetings throughout the week. This is a quick photo report that will be followed up by a national report over the next week.
National event: Fighting For Marxism On Campus
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 ...
To the people of Iran: We are with you!
Communist Students greets the mass demonstrations and bravery of the people on the streets of Iran with hope and solidarity. The mass actions are a testament to the revolutionary élan of the youth, worker’s and women’s movements, who over the last three decades have struggled and suffered at the hands of the theocratic state. The ...