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Convention Against Fees and Cuts report

Posted on February 15th 2010 | No comments

Laurie McCauley 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, [...]

Convention against fees and cuts: we need openness and democracy

Posted on February 4th 2010 | No comments

Dave Isaacson argues for a united revolutionary student organisation

Confused? Us too.
On Saturday February 6 student activists from across the country will be attending the National Convention Against Fees and Cuts hosted by University College London Students for Free Education. The organisers have written that the convention “aims to strengthen and broaden the campaigns against cuts, [...]

Letter to AEIP and ENS on left unity

Posted on February 3rd 2010 | 2 comments

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 [...]

Keeping it broad backfires

Posted on April 23rd 2009 | 4 comments
Less Monty Python, more Fawlty Towers

Laurie McCauley reports on Saturday’s ‘student coordination’ event

On April 18, around 70 student activists met at University College London for the ‘student coordination’ instigated by Revolution, the youth group of Workers Power.
Though 70 people is not bad for a new student left initiative – testament to the impact of the university occupations over Gaza in [...]

Rival NUS?

Posted on March 13th 2009 | No comments
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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 [...]

Free Education Demonstration: Educate, Agitate, Organise!

Posted on February 26th 2009 | 5 comments
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Wednesday 25 Free Education Demonstration: Educate, Agitate, Organise!
Around 600 students gathered at SOAS University to demand free education and a living grant for all. Although numbers were slightly lower than had been initially expected, it was very encouraging to see students turn out in such numbers in an action that was organised completely independently of [...]

Where now for the student left?

Posted on February 6th 2009 | 1 comment
Streeting: Labour lackey faced little resistance

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. [...]

Is the fight for free education worth it? A debate

Posted on September 30th 2008 | No comments

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 [...]

CS Issue 6 out now!

Posted on September 30th 2008 | 1 comment

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.
Issue contents:

Who we are and what we [...]

Letters

Posted on June 6th 2008 | 1 comment

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 [...]

 
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