Dave Isaacson reports on the January 13 launch conference of Socialist Youth Network, the Labour Representation Committee’s youth organisation, at the University of London Union The conference started with an opening speech from John McDonnell. He ...
Weekly Worker ‘my favourite’ Tony Benn was one of three Labour Party politicians who addressed conference as guest speakers. His introductory speech was fairly standard, noting the warmongering, anti-working class policies of New Labour. He said New ...
James Padmore, elected unopposed to the executive of Communist Students, has sent this letter: I was unable to attend the Communist Students conference in December but, based on the report in the Weekly Worker, it seems that it ...
At the founding conference of Communist Students in Sheffield on Saturday December 9, some 20 comrades, most of them not members of the CPGB, were present. Ted North reports Tina Becker began the conference with a speech addressing ...
Dave Isaacson reports from the so-called ‘conference’ of Student Respect, which attracted no more than 80 people - a reflection of the state of the organisation nationally On Sunday December 3 Student Respect held its conference at the ...
On his talk on ‘Education in the neoliberal world’, Rob Owen of the SWP gave a good description of the changing nature of university education over the last 20-30 years. He was, however, somewhat optimistic in his ...
Dave Isaacson reports on the forthcoming 'conference' of Student Respect On Sunday December 3 Student Respect holds its conference in London’s School of African and Oriental Studies. The college staff tell us that the main room booked for ...
The left in the student movement needs a cultural revolution. That is what Communist Students is in business to fight for, writes Ellie James The lead-up to the October 29 student demo against fees in central London has seen the NUS left busying itself with the usual sort of petty factional squabbles that discredit it in ...
The idea of Communist Students first saw the light of day at an informal gathering of students members and sympathisers of the Communist Party of Great Britain, plus other comrades, back in August. Since then, we have signed up hundreds of people at freshers fairs round the country, got this first broadsheet out, held public meetings ...
In January of this year, Carey Davies stood on a communist platform for student union president at Sheffield University. He won 78 votes and got a lot of stick for parts of his platform - including from some comrades on the left of the Education Not for Sale campaign. He explains the reasoning behind some ...
Members of the Socialist Workers Party tried to throw CPGB students out of a public meeting. Dave Isaacson reports In the past week, as well as continuing to sign people up at various freshers fairs, Communist Students groups ...
Ted North explains what Communist Students, the newly established national organisation sponsored by the CPGB, has been up to Communist Students, the newly established national organisation sponsored by the ...
Dave Isaacson reports about Communist Students' first activities Communist Students launched itself into activity this week with stalls held or planned at university freshers fairs. In two days at Manchester we signed up 85 people to join the ...