After a brief let-up, military conflict between the USA or one of its proxies and Iran is again a serious possibility, with Israeli prime minister Ehud Olmert making ever more belligerent statements over Iran's nuclear capabilities and George Bush announcing a ‘troop surge' in Iraq. These developments have posed sharply the need for the world's anti-war ...
One of the many depressing statistics that surfaced in the wake of this year’s new tuition fees regime, alongside the 15,000 absentees, was a ‘shock study’ by academics at Kingston University into student sex-workers. The research, which asked 130 students whether they knew others who had worked in the sex industry, suggested a 50% rise ...
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 ...
Tina Becker reviews Marjane Satrapi’s book Persepolis (Jonathan Cape, 2006, pp343, £12.99) If you haven’t yet got round to reading this highly original look at a young woman’s life in Iran, go and get your copy immediately! The 2006 edition encompasses two separate books: ‘The story of a childhood’ and ‘The story of a return’. Both ...
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 ...
Ben Lewis spoke to Ahmad Zahedi Langaroudi - a young writer and web blogger, currently involved in the production of the journal Ronak The media are full of stories about Iran supplying weaponry to shia militia in Iraq. What is your take on this? There is no doubt that Iran's islamic republic (I mean the government, not the ...
One of the most controversial debates in the run-up to the founding conference of Communist Students was on the question of fascism and the British National Party, and what the response of revolutionaries should be. The conference adopted a resolution highlighting the necessity of basing any anti-fascist fight on the "mobilisation of the working class ...