Communist Students are extremely worried about the well being of comrade Mohammad Pour Abdollah in Iran. As regular readers will be aware the he was held in solitary confinement for over a month in Evin prison. Abdollah has been severely interrogated and tortured during in his imprisonment. Abdollah has since been moved to Qezel Hesar ...
Twenty students at Noushirvan University in Babol were prevented from entering the campus, insulted, and beaten by the University Guards and plainclothes security officers who met them in front of the campus on 13 April 2009. Students at Noushirvan University started an unlimited sit in on 11 April 2009, after they were threatened by university authorities ...
Called by Manchester Hands Off the People of Iran Hands Off the Students of Iran - 25 March Day of Action Manchester 1pm University of Manchester Students' Union Manchester HOPI along with our friends in Manchester's Iranian community are calling a day of action on the 25 March at the University of Manchester Students' Union (UMSU) ...
Members of the National Union of Teachers (NUT) at St Paul's Way Community School in the East London borough of Tower Hamlets have given a substantial boost to the campaign to win the reinstatement of their victimsed NUT rep, Adrian Swain. In an indicative ballot, conducted by post, 81% of NUT members said 'yes' to ...
This from SOAS.... Following a packed UGM, SOAS students marched to the directors office demanding he release a statement condemning the attacks on Gaza and demanding an exhibition glorifying the military be kicked off campus. After the Director's refusal SOAS students moved to the Brunei gallery where they remain currently. At present there are community police ...
Stop the War Coalition and others have called further demonstrations across the country against the invasion of Gaza by the Israeli army. Over 400 hundred people have been killed since the military action began, thousands have been injured, the death toll is set to rise even further as the Gaza strip is one of the ...
Israel, backed and armed by the imperialist powers, has launched a barbaric attack on the Gaza strip. The death count is constantly rising, as Israel turns its full military might on the besieged population. Medical supplies are diminishing by the hour with little chance of supplies entering Gaza any time soon, as the cowardly Egyptian ...
The bailout package for the big three car manufacturers in the US is stalled -for now, writes James Turley The economic crisis continues to deepen, particularly in the country at its epicentre, the USA. On December 12, the US Senate failed to pass an emergency bail-out fund of $14 billion, billed as a “bridging loan” to ...
The government’s setback over DNA records does not mean an end to its attacks, writes Ted North Many on the left are rubbing their hands together at what they consider to be favourable prospects arising from the developing recession. It is true that the changing face of global politics arising from the financial crisis poses profound ...
Ninety years ago, the destiny of the world revolution lay in the hands of the German working class. Ben Lewis describes the tumultuous events and draws some lessons for today “Without the revolution in Germany, we are doomed.”1 Vladimir Ilych Lenin’s words of January 1918 underline how the world revolution, initiated and set into motion by ...
Ben Lewis reports from last Friday's demonstration in London to oppose cuts in student grants. "You're lucky you're late, there was hardly anyone here at the time we were meant to start". This is how one member of the Socialist Worker's Party greeted me on arrival at the 'emergency' demonstration called by new SWP student ...
Report at the website of independent youth group Revolution: 100,000 school students across Germany went on strike on Wednesday, November 12. In more than 40 cities there were rallies and demonstrations instead of classes. In many places, university students and teachers expressed solidarity. The walkout was directed against overcrowded classrooms, the lack of teachers and the ...
James Turley sees the illusions of millions reflected in the left A couple of years ago, I spent an overly large part of my life in endless polemics with various rank-and-file leftists on internet forums, mostly of American extraction. I was particularly harsh on the US International Socialist Organization, formerly the franchise of the British Socialist Workers ...