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.
Communist Students member James Turley has written this contribution to a debate over the future of Education Not for Sale and the tasks of the student left in the aftermath of NUS conference: 'Solidarity' or the politics of Marxism The annual conference of the National Union of Students was nothing if not dramatic. The main event was ...
First published in Communist Student no.3- click on pics to go to group's website Student Respect/Socialist Worker Student Society: In all probability the largest student group (although that’s not saying much), you will find them everywhere telling you that things such as war and islamophobia are - get this - really bad. Secretly run by: The Socialist Workers ...
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 ...
Weekly Worker ‘my favourite’ Tony Benn was one of three Labour Party politicians who addressed conference as guest speakers. His introductory speech was fairly standard, noting the warmongering, anti-working class policies of New Labour. He said New ...