It's that time again. Communist Students comrades will be hitting freshers' fairs in the coming weeks, taking our message to campus. That message is simple: Capitalism is past its sell by date - we need a revolution to replace it with socialism. Doing so requires the greatest level of democracy possible - in the organisations of the left, ...
With a new issue of Communist Student (our 8th) in hand, CS members have been organising stalls at campuses around the capital during freshers week. The economic crisis and continuing destructiveness of imperialism is definitely making more students receptive to left-wing ideas, and we had many interesting discussions with students about such varied topics as ...
Members of Communist Students backed up by supporters of the 'Hands Off the People of Iran' campaign ran stalls and meetings throughout the week. This is a quick photo report that will be followed up by a national report over the next week.
Ben Lewis detects the beginnings of a new sentiment amongst students Communist Students has certainly stepped up our game in the last couple of weeks, having a presence at freshers fairs in 17 universities, where we distributed around 4,000 copies of the latest issue of our paper, Communist Student (see communiststudents.org.uk). This was specifically designed to ...
A new generation of students is coming into politics. Communist Students has been recruiting through the country and, as our three short reports show, it is clear that a new mood exists Manchester Communist Students made a very successful intervention at the University of Manchester’s freshers fair, meeting some interesting new comrades and signing up 80 students ...
Dave Isaacson reports about Communist Students' first activities Communist Students launched itself into activity this week with stalls held or planned at university freshers fairs. In two days at Manchester we signed up 85 people to join the ...