The demonstration in London against fees and cuts on 14th March should give the student left a lot to think about over the coming weeks. It was supposed to be the highlight of the National Union of Student's 'week of action', which went almost entirely ignored by the national media. The turnout - about 500 ...
Click the image to download PDF. This is the leaflet CS are distributing at today's (09/12/10) demonstration outside Parliament, where MPs are voting on the government's plan to treble tuition fees to up to £9,000 a year.
Sinead Rylance reports on the occupation of the Edmond J Safra Building at Kings College London Around midday on the second national day of action against tuition fees (December 30th) the ‘we support our teachers’ group and some of its supporters occupied the Edmond J Safra building, which has a capacity of ...
Click below to view the PDF. Words by James Turley.
Ben Bawerk reports on the conference of the Education Activist Network On Sunday November 1 around 400 students and lecturers (mainly the former) filled King’s College Strand campus to attend the Education Activist Network conference. EAN is the latest ‘broad front’ group of the Socialist Workers Party in the student movement following the ...
Below is the text of the leaflet members of Communist Students will be distributing at the EAN conference tomorrow, Sunday 31st October. Highlighting the fact that Marxists will probably be in a majority at the event, it calls for unity of the student left on the basis of radical socialist politics, not lowest-common-denominator policies designed ...
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 ...
CS will have a large presence at this demo, to push the idea of a marxist and united youth movement. Unfortunately it has been the subject of infighting between the youth fronts of the SWP (AEP) and AWL (ENS), who have both tried to claim exclusive ownership of the demo. The info below is culled ...
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 ...
Having brushed Student Respect under the carpet, the SWP launched their new student front on November 1st, on almost identical politics to Education Not for Sale. Dan Read and Dave Isaacson were there. CS proposals to conference- click here Another politics is possible- click here Most of the 150 or so student activists who gathered in London for ...
Initiated by the Socialist Worker Student Society, this conference looks to set up a project almost identical to Education Not for Sale. CS members will be there to argue for radical politics and democracy in the student movement- expect a report after the conference. Info from: www.anothereducationispossible.org.uk Building a Democratic Campaigning Student Movement As the impact of the ...
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 education.not.for.sale@gmail.com
The failure of the left in the 20th century and today could perhaps be said to be a failure of imagination; a failure to penetrate other minds. It is a failure that is felt most keenly by those who self-consciously place themselves to the far left of the political spectrum, but the weight of the ...