A revolutionary platform was too much for some 'revolutionary' students. Mohsen Sabbagh reports Campuses across the country are holding elections for university sabbatical positions as well as National Union of Students conference delegates. Over the last two years Communist Students in Sheffield have attempted to put an end to the apolitical popularity contest these elections usually ...
Motion: Young workers, the Trade Unions, and Communists. Proposer: Chris Strafford The executive shall produce a discussion document on young workers, trade unionism and the IWW. The executive shall schedule a debate on young workers and trade unions at Communist University North. PASSED Amendment to CS platform, 'What we stand for'. Proposer: Chris Strafford Change point 9, which reads: The ...
The second annual conference of Communist Students took place in Manchester on February 16. John Jo Sidwell reports All in all, it had been a good year for Communist Students, as executive members Dave Isaacson and Laurie Smith explained in their introductory remarks. We have fought a number of elections and, though, as expected, we did ...
When Hal Draper emerged from the by-then grotesque shadow of Max Shachtman, after the latter's slow conversion from Trotskyist revolutionary to social-democratic Cold Warrior was complete, he was by no means completely transformed into an immaculate leftist. The strategy he demanded of his group was one of deep, semi-secret work in the particularly grim ...
In moves to sideline any criticism of the Iranian regime within the anti-war movement, Communist Students and Hands Off the People Of Iran (Hopi) have been barred from the Stop the War Coalition. Benjamin Klein calls for all principled anti-imperialists and democrats to fight this exclusion and to raise the banner of genuine internationalism Andrew Murray, ...
The National Union of Students annual conference was held from March 27-29. Ben Lewis and Dave Isaacson report on the consolidation of rightwing control A “rightwing orgy” is how Student Respect member Assed Baig summed up ...
Elections for the bulk of positions on the NUS NEC take place at annual conference. This year there were fewer candidates than normal for many positions. Sadly this was not because the left had pulled together a ...
David Sabbagh reports on the excellent result that Communist Students achieved in the University of Sheffield elections On March 1 the election results for the University of Sheffield student union sabbatical positions were announced. Naturally members of Communist Students who stood, together with supporters, were present for the results. While we never expected to win, given ...
Leading the Alliance for Workers Liberty’s typically slippery response to our coverage of the Socialist Youth Network launch conference reveals an organisation in crisis and rapidly moving to the right, says James ...
In the student union elections at Sheffield University, Communist Students will be standing five candidates for sabbatical positions and two candidates for the National Union of Students delegate elections. Unlike other left student groups, they will be standing on an openly revolutionary, socialist platform and all Communist Student readers are urged to give them as ...
Since issue No1 of this publication members of Communist Students have been involved in a number of events and activities. In November we distributed copies of Communist Student on national demonstrations against top-up fees and climate change. In December we took the message of communism and democracy to the Student Respect national conference. Our comrade Ben Lewis ...
The statement from the Communist Students executive regarding comrade Jim Padmore’s resignation from that body contained a factual error which I would like to correct. The statement claims that Jim’s resignation letter (Letters, January ...
Statement by the CS executive on Jim Padmore's resignation We were puzzled and disappointed to read of Jim Padmore’s decision not to take his place on the Communist Students executive. Puzzled, because his stated reasons do not make much sense. He writes ...