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Looking for the Left: London fresher’s report

Posted on October 12th 2009 | 2 comments
Our well-stocked stall at SOAS

Our well-stocked stall at SOAS
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 [...]

Photo report of Manchester freshers

Posted on September 25th 2009 | 1 comment
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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.
Manchester CS members staffed two stalls for three days as well as doing [...]

Connecting with new layers

Posted on October 23rd 2008 | No comments
Strategy needed

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 [...]

Renewed interest

Posted on October 3rd 2008 | No comments
Communist Students: spreading ideas

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

Communist Students: spreading ideas
Manchester
Communist Students made a very successful intervention at the University of Manchester’s freshers fair, meeting some interesting new comrades and signing [...]

Signing up

Posted on September 21st 2006 | No comments

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 [...]