From CS Issue 6 The brute facts of student life are rather more harsh than in the past. Grants, not loans. Fixed fees, not free education. Spying on ‘radical’ student groups on campuses. Petty harassment of young people on the streets and authoritarian attempts by the establishment to micro-manage our lives - from our alcohol intake, ...
This edition of our journal is designed to introduce the politics of Communist Students to the new audience attending freshers’ fares around the country. It features themes that are integral to our work as a Marxist group: the decline of capitalism, genuine internationalism and the crisis of the left. Faced with the mess capitalism has made ...
CS spoke to a leading member of Iranian Students for Freedom and Equality Could you describe your organisation's history and political aims? Iranian Students for Freedom and Equality was first established about five years ago, after it was clear that the Iranian reformists around people like Khatami had been unsuccessful in their aims and that the islamic ...
Communist Students was one of the founding affiliates of the Hands Off the People of Iran campaign, which takes the principled position of both opposing imperialist war and acting in solidarity with the radical movements for liberation and socialism in Iran. We want to build this campaign in universities, colleges and schools across the UK, ...
CS spoke to Hillel Ticktin, editor of Critique, about the ‘credit crunch’ and what it tells us about the dynamics of capitalism today You have described the latest capitalist downturn as a “turning point” for capitalism as a whole, which is in some ways similar to 1929. Can you expand on this? In fact, one can read ...
As you amble around your freshers’ fair, you may well come across a handful of excitable young leftists pushing an organisation called Education Not for Sale. They will be against a lot of bad things (but, for reasons we’ll get to later, sheepish on the subject of war). They will be very ‘inclusive’, and keen ...
We often dub CS's opponents on the left such as ENS 'economists' – but what does that mean? Economism is an opportunist political trend that denies the central importance of democracy to Marxism. As such it is a broad organism, whose tentacles extend into the lofty heights of political theory and down into the grime of ...
Climate change and global warming can no longer be ignored or downplayed. The question nowadays is not whether there is an ecological crisis; it is how it is to be combated. As of yet, the most influential answers have come under a ‘green’ heading, with ‘green’ ideas being influential not only in terms of established politics ...
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