We first posted this in 2009. Also see our section on Women and Marxism. What is now known as International Women's Day was initially called International Working Women's Day and was a key date in the communist calendar. Unfortunately over the years the connection between this day, on which we mark the fight for women's liberation, ...
Below is a statement in response to the article by James Turley 'Against the politics of purity' and the statement by Manchester comrades 'No support for Labour - No support for the LRC'. This is part of the debate in the lead up to our conference in March that will decide our perspectives for the ...
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 ...
This is the text of a leaflet we issued at the founding conference of Youth Fight for Jobs on Saturday May 9, which was attended by about 100 comrades. A small report will follow in due course. One manifestation of the capitalist crisis is in the jobs market. According to the government's own statistic the claimant ...
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 ...
Last year was the 50th anniversary of the Notting Hill Race riots. CS member John Sidwell wrote this article examining some of the issues The riots that broke out in Notting Hill, 1958 marked the first major race riot in Britain post-mass immigration. It spanned five nights over the August Bank holiday, sparked by the bating ...
Jack Conrad (CPGB), author of Fantastic Reality: Marxism and the Politics of Religion, asks who the real Jesus was. This video was recorded at a recent Communist Students public meeting.
All that was once certain now melts As John Rees launches his long awaited war on the central committee, both factions of the SWP leadership are coming under fire from sections of the membership. Weekly Worker editor Peter Manson reports According to Socialist Workers Party veteran John Molyneux, “a significant democratic upsurge is taking place in the ...
Meetings at the SWP’s Marxism school, organised by CPGB, Campaign for a Marxist Party, and Hands Off the People of Iran: Birkbeck College, Malet Street, London WC1 All meetings start 17:00 Friday July 4 - Room 541 Manifesto of the Campaign for a Marxist Party - pre-launch meeting Hillel Ticktin and Mike Macnair introduce themes to be explored ...
Here are two more videos from the Communist University North event which took place at Sheffield University in May. The event was co-organised by Communist Students and the Communist Party of Great Britain. These videos are of the session on 'Communists and trade unions' which was a debate between Dave Douglas and Alan Stevens. Dave ...
Here we republish two letters concerning Communist Students attitude towards the 'Reclaim the Campus' conference which re-launched the Education Not for Sale front of the Alliance for Workers Liberty. These letters appeared first in the Weekly Worker. Absurd I write in astonishment at the absurdity of Ben Klein’s article, ‘Rebranding exercise flops’ (May 22). As part of ...
These four sections of video were recorded at Communist University North which took part at Sheffield University in May 2008. The event was jointly organised by Communist Students and the CPGB. The session was entitled 'What is the Marxist programme?' and was a debate between Mike Macnair of the Communist Party of Great Britain and ...
Communist Students members have continued to be at the forefront of a debate over the nature of fascism; whether the BNP is fascist; and which anti-fascist tactics are most applicable in this period. This debate was recently one of the main topics for discussion at a CPGB members aggregate, and has continued to be fought ...