Laurie Smith reports on last Saturday’s surprisingly positive conference of leftwing student activists Over 100 student activists gathered on Saturday February 6 for the Convention Against Cuts and Fees. Hosted by University College London Students for Free Education and given the green light by both the Socialist Workers Party’s and Alliance for Workers’ Liberty’s student fronts, ...
Below is a letter which we emailed to both Another Education is Possible and Education Not for Sale on January 29. Dear comrades, we understand that Another Education is Possible and Education Not for Sale are in talks, along with Daf Adley (NUS LGBT Chair) and Bellavia Ribeiro-Addy (NUS Black students Chair), about the possiblity of standing ...
Communist Students is preparing the ground for the kind of student movement we need, writes Ben Lewis Anybody who watches television or reads the newspapers will have noticed that these are not exactly the best of times for the capitalist class. Stock markets have crashed, the banking system nearly went into meltdown and unemployment, house repossessions ...
The AWL are pushing for a new student's union now they can no longer play ball in NUS- but could only get 12 people to a meeting. Ben Lewis reports... The Alliance for Workers’ Liberty student group, like the organisation more generally, appears to be somewhat at a loose end. Their chauvinistic rightism on the question ...
The left's sub-minimum programmes have led to a bureaucrats' victory, writes Boz Cirrik After protracted birth pangs, the National Union of Students has finally passed its governance review under the 'inspirational' presidency of Wes Streeting. The package achieved infamy among student left activists for the comprehensive manner in which it destroyed what remained of NUS democracy. ...
Communist Students will be at this Saturday's 'Another Education is Possible' conference. Dave Isaacson reports on the latest SWP front Since the end of its involvement in the Respect popular front, the Socialist Workers Party has looked rather lost. Without electoralism the SWP has no glue to hold its work together. The organisation's response to the ongoing ...
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 ...
I wonder what the answer to this one is... NO: Wes Streeting, NUS President YES: Aled Dilwyn Fisher, LSESU General Secretary and ENS 4pm, Wednesday 15 October, in the JCR, School of Oriental and African Studies, Russell Square, London For more information email education.not.for.sale@gmail.com
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Here we republish two letters concerning Communist Students attitude towards the 'Reclaim the Campus' conference which re-launched the Education Not for Sale front of the Alliance for Workers Liberty. These letters appeared first in the Weekly Worker. Absurd I write in astonishment at the absurdity of Ben Klein’s article, ‘Rebranding exercise flops’ (May 22). As part of ...
A statement from the Communist Student Exec: Communist Students would like to extend our solidarity to the Education Not For Sale (ENS) supporter who was attacked by far right thugs on Friday 30th May in Huddersfield. She was attacked because of her prominent role at the students union and her vocal support of No Platform for ...
Communist Students members Dave Isaacson and Ben Klein reject economism and put forward the case for Marxism: Left unity not on offer This weekend will, farcically, see two separate gatherings to discuss ‘left unity’ in the student movement. Firstly, the ‘Reclaim the Campus’ event on Saturday May 17, called by the Alliance for Workers’ Liberty-run Education Not ...