The October 29 student mobilisation against attacks on the right to education should be just the beginning of the campaign to beat off the government. More of the same sort of timid gestures from the NUS leadership will be worse than useless. Unless the fight against fees is won to a fundamentally different political approach, ...
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 ...
All democrats and socialists should fight against the government’s plans to encourage university staff spy on “Asian-looking” or muslim students, says David Isaacson The leaked document from the department for education and skills proposing that university staff spy on “Asian-looking” or muslim students and inform special branch of anyone who might be involved in islamic extremism ...