Israel's far-right Foreign Minister, Avigdor Lieberman, came to the British Foreign Office on Whitehall today to meet his counterpart, the British Foreign Secretary, David Miliband and the Shadow Foreign Secretary, William Hague, as part of his bid to strengthen ties between Europe and Israel. Members of Communist Students joined the Stop the War Coalition protest ...
'Basti' from the Revolutionary Socialist Organisation in Switzerland gave a talk on 'Marxism, Crisis and Youth at the Manchester Communist Students branch meeting on May 12th which was attended by comrades from University of Manchester, Manchester Metropolitan University and Manchester College. His speech gave an analysis of the crisis of capitalism and how marxists should ...
On Thursday May 7 Communist Students were up at the crack of dawn to attend the picket lines at London Metropolitan University, showing our support for the strike action against outrageous cuts proposals following severe mismanagement and bureaucracy. The pickets were quite well attended and there was a positive mood amongst the strikers. Students largely ...
Across the country, university staff are facing growing redundancies, increased hours and heavier workloads – the only thing shrinking is their pay packets. The Universities and Colleges Employers Association (UCEA) has sparked this dispute by offering workers a desultory 0.3% pay offer! In real terms, this is a cut as inflation runs at 2.9%. On ...
Members from Manchester and Sheffield Communist Students attended the May Day march and rally in Manchester. It was a small affair attracting between 400 and 500 people. We distributed copies of Communist Student, the Weekly Worker and HOPI 'Smash the Sanctions' leaflets. Below is a report from the blog Infantile and Disorderly, which is run by ...
On international workers day students, workers and women are gathering in Laleh Park, Tehran and across Iran to protest against imperialism, the economic crisis and the authoritarian theocratic state. The regime has done everything in it can since coming to power to put an end to the demonstrations, arrests, torture and the threat of executions ...
On April 30 two members of Communist Students in Manchester attended the Manchester launch of the Left Nationalist No 2 EU - Yes To Democracy campaign. The attendance was a paltry eight, and of those eight three were from the Morning Star’s CPB, one from the Socialist Party of England and Wales (SPEW), one from ...
Communist Students puts forward the only politics that can emancipate humanity. Chris Strafford reports On April 26 members of Communist Students gathered in central London to thrash out our perspectives for the coming period and to look critically at our work over the last year. In spite of numerous apologies because of exams, essays and poor options ...
- We at the Student Co-ordination Meeting of April 18: -Welcome the brave action and militancy of nearly 40 campuses across the country - debunking the myth that students are passive, cynical and apolitical. -Recognise that it is incumbent upon revolutionaries to deepen and politicise the outrage against this onslaught - crucially by struggling for a new ...
No comrades, this is not a release concerning our latest membership figures! We have a few more than two members thankfully. Neither is it news of a split tearing our organisation apart. In fact it concerns the fact that there are now two groups operating under the name "Communist Students". Perhaps our comrades in ...
Police thugs randomly searched and brutalised G20 protesters. Chris Strafford reports The G20 summit saw thousands of people protest outside the Bank of England on April 1. The demonstration was called by a variety of groups under the banner of G20 Meltdown. From early on the police had protesters hemmed in a ‘kettle’, which restricted access, compacted the ...
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 ...
The annual conference of Communist Students is our highest decision-making body and the only one which can change our platform and constitution. The executive have set the date of April 26th (Sunday) for this year's conference, which will be in London. Exact time and place will be confirmed nearer the date. The provisional agenda drafted ...