The following are a letter and proposals that we have submitted to 'Reclaim the Campus': Comrades, We feel that, as this conference is being billed as a discussion of "the need for a political, campaigning student movement which integrates and focuses this activism, which fights to transform our education system as part of the fight to transform ...
After posting links to our reports of NUS conference to the education.net message boards comrades from Communist Students have been engaged in a debate with the AWL's Sacha Ismail ('left opposition boy') over a number of important questions. To read the debate so far (and get involved) click here.
In this article James Turley responds to a letter from Eben Marks criticising Communist Students in the Weekly Worker. James goes on to argue that students have an antagonistic relationship with college authorities... The campus and the state Making overtures to the student population has been a standard feature of leftwing activism for many decades - while ...
The sectarianism and economism of the left has prevented a united challenge in the NUS elections. By James Turley Sofie Buckland, it seems, is very annoyed indeed. Buckland, member of the Alliance for Workers' Liberty (AWL), its student front Education Not for Sale (ENS), and the NUS's ‘block of 12' (a part-time group of officers), had been ...
Elections for the bulk of positions on the NUS NEC take place at annual conference. This year there were fewer candidates than normal for many positions. Sadly this was not because the left had pulled together a ...
Leading the Alliance for Workers Liberty’s typically slippery response to our coverage of the Socialist Youth Network launch conference reveals an organisation in crisis and rapidly moving to the right, says James ...
Dave Isaacson replies to Sofie Buckland of the Alliance for Workers' Liberty It is to be welcomed that Sofie Buckland of the Alliance for Workers' Liberty has written a response to my article on student politics and the ...