by Laurie Smith, Communist Students The five rebel delegates from Sheffield University who broke a mandate to vote for the NUS governance review were called to a disciplinary hearing on Wednesday 14th. We were found guilty of breaking the mandate imposed by SRC (Student Representative Council) and have been banned from delegate elections for a year. At ...
First published in the Weekly Worker May 1st Around 30 people attended the annual Communist University North - an event jointly sponsored by Communist Students and the CPGB. Ben Klein and Carey Davies report Comrade Yassamine Mather from Hands Off the People of Iran kicked off the school with a session on ‘Imperialism and Iran'. Giving a brief ...
Yassamine Mather, of Hands Off the People of Iran, will also be speaking at the week long Communist University event in London in August 9 - 16. For more details click here. Also, Hands of the People of Iran is organising a weekend school for Saturday-Sunday, June 14-15. For more details click here.
By Laurie Smith Communist Students stood two more candidates in the second round of elections to the Sheffield Student Union executive. As reported in the WW712, our first round candidates Ted North (Education) and Laurie Smith (President) received just over 5% of the first and second preference votes, and I was elected as a delegate to NUS ...
Dan Randall of the AWL responds to Mohsen Sabbagh's report on the left slate discussions in Sheffield.
The results are in, and Ted North reports on Communist Student's election campaign in Sheffield. Communist Students stood two candidates in last week's elections to the Sheffield Student Union executive; Laurie Smith for President and Ted North for Education Officer, both of whom also ran for delegation to NUS conference. Voting was by STV where candidates are ...
CS stood two candidates for elections to the student union executive at Sheffield University. These videos were taken at the hustings event where candidates are given one-minute speeches and one-minute responses to two cherry-picked questions! Ted North and Laurie Smith- CS candidates for Education Officer and President
Ted North for Education As a member of Communist Students and the CPGB I stand for radical democracy in all spheres of life. The current education system leaves students burdened with massive debts and forced to take low paid jobs, whilst the right wing NUS bureaucracy pathetically whimper for concessions of 'keep the cap' to the greasy ...
A revolutionary platform was too much for some 'revolutionary' students. Mohsen Sabbagh reports Campuses across the country are holding elections for university sabbatical positions as well as National Union of Students conference delegates. Over the last two years Communist Students in Sheffield have attempted to put an end to the apolitical popularity contest these elections usually ...
Ted North tells of spreading the message in Sheffield For the third time in three years Communist Students will be contesting student union elections at Sheffield University. Last year our five candidates picked up between 5% and 11% of the vote. Not a bad result, especially as they all stood on an openly revolutionary platform during what ...
David Sabbagh reports on the excellent result that Communist Students achieved in the University of Sheffield elections On March 1 the election results for the University of Sheffield student union sabbatical positions were announced. Naturally members of Communist Students who stood, together with supporters, were present for the results. While we never expected to win, given ...
for the Sheffield Student Union elections 2007 Executive posts Communist Student for president! As a member of Communist Students and the CPGB, I will fight to ensure that Sheffield University is run and controlled by its students and staff. I will seek to create a fighting and politically active Student Union that takes up the fight for free education ...