Author of Capitalist Realism (Zero Books), Mark Fisher is the speaker at this meeting jointly organised by the CPGB and Communist Students. All are welcome, and there will be plenty of time for discussion. Mark sent us this intro, which gives a taster of his talk. Recent changes in the funding of higher education in the UK have ...
Communist Students are holding a dayschool on the 4th of December to discuss the pressing issues facing the student movement and the perspectives and strategy of our own organisation. The school is open to all, not just members of CS, and there will be plenty of time for questions and debate after a short introduction. ...
Below is the text of the leaflet members of Communist Students will be distributing at the EAN conference tomorrow, Sunday 31st October. Highlighting the fact that Marxists will probably be in a majority at the event, it calls for unity of the student left on the basis of radical socialist politics, not lowest-common-denominator policies designed ...
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In this session of our educational series on party & programme, James Turley looks firstly at programmes which are ‘broad’, that dilute Marxist politics to try and make quick gains (reading: the programme of TUSC), and then the opposite; those that are ‘fat’, absurdly long and dogmatic (reading: contents page of the ABC’s of communism). Recorded on 17-03-10.
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This is an introduction to Leon Trotsky’s Transitional Programme, given to London branch by CS member Nick Jones as part of our educational programme. Recorded on 10-03-10.
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Our London branch now have a new base at SOAS, where our meetings will be held from now on. At our final meeting of the year CS member Nick Jones will be introducing our politics to SOAS and other students and making suggestions for how we can agitate, educate and organise in 2010. There will ...
Laurie Smith reports and Zuri Zurowski comments on a meeting attended by Christians and communists On December 8, Jack Conrad of the CPGB spoke on ‘Jesus: prophet, son of god, or revolutionary?’ at the School of Oriental and African Studies, addressing a meeting organised by Communist Students. It was attended by around 25 people from a ...
With a new issue of Communist Student (our 8th) in hand, CS members have been organising stalls at campuses around the capital during freshers week. The economic crisis and continuing destructiveness of imperialism is definitely making more students receptive to left-wing ideas, and we had many interesting discussions with students about such varied topics as ...
Protests have been called following a raid on the cleaning staff at the School of Oriental and African Studies by 40-50 armored police from the Immigration and Border Agency. Nick Jones reports. At 6.30am on Friday the 12th the company that sub-contracts SOAS' cleaning staff called a meeting of the employees, having assembled in the main ...
CS London branch will be discussing chapter 1 of Marx's Capital on Wednesday November 5th. The first chapter can be found here: http://marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1867-c1/ch01.htm Contact Ben for more details: 07522 408 657; ...