Wednesday 25 Free Education Demonstration: Educate, Agitate, Organise! Around 600 students gathered at SOAS University to demand free education and a living grant for all. Although numbers were slightly lower than had been initially expected, it was very encouraging to see students turn out in such numbers in an action that was organised completely independently of ...
Manchester Communist Students are calling for as many people as possible to attend the national demonstration in support of Gaza and the student solidarity movement. CS supporters are urged to bring red or Palestinian flags and march with with our banner. from:manuunioccupation.wordpress.com “Now 2 weeks on, University of Manchester students have occupied key buildings in ...
Revolution (Revo), the small youth front controlled by Trotskyist group Workers Power, have recently circulated a proposal amongst the student left calling for a "student coordination". The way this has been circulated was at times cynical. When the statement was distributed at the Stop the War student activists meeting in London on February 7 many activists ...
CS member Carey Davies reports Cardiff Radical Socialist Forum met last week to discuss the 'credit crunch', the economic crisis and the tasks of the left amidst the coming instability. Eleven people showed up, CPGB/Communist Student members and sympathisers being the biggest single group, along with three Permanent Revolution members and two international students. Permanent Revolution's Keith ...
Having brushed Student Respect under the carpet, the SWP launched their new student front on November 1st, on almost identical politics to Education Not for Sale. Dan Read and Dave Isaacson were there. CS proposals to conference- click here Another politics is possible- click here Most of the 150 or so student activists who gathered in London for ...
Ben Lewis detects the beginnings of a new sentiment amongst students Communist Students has certainly stepped up our game in the last couple of weeks, having a presence at freshers fairs in 17 universities, where we distributed around 4,000 copies of the latest issue of our paper, Communist Student (see communiststudents.org.uk). This was specifically designed to ...
A new generation of students is coming into politics. Communist Students has been recruiting through the country and, as our three short reports show, it is clear that a new mood exists Manchester Communist Students made a very successful intervention at the University of Manchester’s freshers fair, meeting some interesting new comrades and signing up 80 students ...
From CS Issue 6 The brute facts of student life are rather more harsh than in the past. Grants, not loans. Fixed fees, not free education. Spying on ‘radical’ student groups on campuses. Petty harassment of young people on the streets and authoritarian attempts by the establishment to micro-manage our lives - from our alcohol intake, ...
This edition of our journal is designed to introduce the politics of Communist Students to the new audience attending freshers’ fares around the country. It features themes that are integral to our work as a Marxist group: the decline of capitalism, genuine internationalism and the crisis of the left. Faced with the mess capitalism has made ...
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Communist Students will be out and about up and down the country putting the case for Marxism. We will be doing stalls at freshers fayres in London, Manchester, Sheffield, Edinburgh, Glasgow and beyond! If you want to help out, or come along for a chat and to buy the new edition of our magazine 'Communist ...
Chris Strafford, a member of Communist Students and Hands Off The People of Iran, is standing for the NUS Block of 12. This is his election manifesto As the right-wing NUS bureaucracy prepares to gut what remains of the union's democratic structures, the fight for free education faces a growing series of setbacks, and resurgent student ...
The results are in, and Ted North reports on Communist Student's election campaign in Sheffield. Communist Students stood two candidates in last week's elections to the Sheffield Student Union executive; Laurie Smith for President and Ted North for Education Officer, both of whom also ran for delegation to NUS conference. Voting was by STV where candidates are ...