Chris Strafford reports on an artistic and engaging campaign Communist Students stood two candidates in last week’s elections to the University of Manchester student union: Cat Rylance for general secretary and Robi Folkard for academic affairs. Cat won 17% of the vote on a communist platform which stressed democracy - within the student movement, the university ...
Laurie Smith, Communist Students candidate for President of Sheffield University Student's Union, reports on the elections now the results are in This year's election yielded few surprises. The campaigns of the right wing and the genuinely apolitical have consisted of the usual mixture of uncontroversial, token policies, appalling slogans and embarrassing gimmicks. Nods toward the environment ...
I'm Laurie Smith and I'm standing for President of Sheffield Student's Union 2009. I am a Marxist and a member of Communist Students, and I believe student politics needs to be about more than just personalities and the crushing bureaucracy they inhabit- no wonder hardly anyone votes! When standing before I have always made clear that ...