The article below was written for the last edition of Communist Student. Unfortunately we didn't have the space to include it and a number of other articles in the print edition. It is written by a member of Permanent Revolution and author of the blog Infantile and Disorderly. I expect that it will prompt some ...
Tue 18th Nov 2008 at 17:30 UMSU Meeting Room 2 As the world falls into economic crisis Latin America has blown up with mass movements bringing Left wing governments in Bolivia and Venezuela. Far-right forces in Bolivia are preparing a major assault on the Evo Morales government, with students and trade unionists being ...
Here are some interesting things to read from around the blogosphere: Vicky T of the Hands Off the People of Iran steering committee has recently set up her own blog, 'Infantile and Disorderly,' so check it out. Over at 'The Storm Breaking Upon the University' there is an interesting article on academic freedom and the case of ...
Is 'no platforming' an unshakable principle or a tactic? Ted North reports on the discussion among Communist Students The February 16 conference of Communist Students featured a debate on fascism and the tactics needed to defeat it. It was introduced by Ben Klein, who argued that we must start from the premise of independent working class politics ...
One of the most controversial debates in the run-up to the founding conference of Communist Students was on the question of fascism and the British National Party, and what the response of revolutionaries should be. The conference adopted a resolution highlighting the necessity of basing any anti-fascist fight on the "mobilisation of the working class ...