Posted on February 18th 2010 |
Chris Strafford reports Manchester Hopi action
On Saturday February 13 Hands Off the People of Iran’s week of action was kicked off at Manchester University with a day school, followed by a fundraising event. Around 35 people attended for some or all of the day.
The first session was opened by Steven Monaghan from the Anarchist Federation [...]
Posted on January 25th 2010 |
Manchester Communist Students is launching a series on ‘A Revolutionary History of Germany’ with speakers from across the country and the Left. Everyone is welcome to attend, we always meet every tuesday at 6.30pm at the University of Manchester Students’ Union in Meeting room 2 or 3. Below is a provisional list of dates and subjects:
09/02- [...]
Posted on December 2nd 2009 |
Moshé Machover
On December 1st Manchester Communist Students hosted Israeli socialist and anti-Zionist Moshé Machover at the University of Manchester Students’ Union. This talk focuses on comrade Machover’s understanding that the oppression faced by Palestinians cannot be overcome without a change in the balance of forces on a regional scale. He also discusses his understanding of colonialism, [...]
Posted on November 25th 2009 |
Explaining the resistance
‘Communists in the French Resistance’ Part 1
‘Communists in the French Resistance’ Part 2
Matthew Cobb communist and author of ‘Resistance: The French Fight Against the Nazi’s’ spoke on the role of communists in the movement to expel the Nazi occupiers and overthrow the colloborationist government under Marshall Petain. He gave comrades an account of the [...]
Posted on November 23rd 2009 |
These videos were recorded at our dayschool in Manchester on October 17th, ‘Fighting for Marxism on campus’. Click here for a report of the school.
Caitriona Rylance: Internationalism
Chris Strafford on ‘CS: Who we are and what we fight [...]
Posted on November 12th 2009 |
Communists in the French Resistance
Manchester CS has kicked off the ‘Revolutionary France’ series with a discussion on the lessons of the Paris Commune of 1871, after reading chapter 5 of Karl Marx’s ‘Civil War in France’. Around 20 attended and debated the National Question, a programme to win the Peasantry, the revolutionary party and why [...]
Posted on October 30th 2009 |
Postal workers' support group meeting
Building solidarity in Manchester- Chris Brandler reports
Students in Manchester have established a campaign in solidarity with postal workers. It involves comrades from the Socialist Workers Party, Communist Students, the Alliance for Workers’ Liberty and Anarchist Federation, as well as non-aligned leftwing individuals.
We sent delegations to picket lines last week and will [...]
Posted on October 22nd 2009 |
Over 20 people attended the Communist Students day school in Manchester on Saturday October 17. Most were from the city, where our comrades have been working hard to build the event, though there was a good contingent from London and the south.
Entitled ‘Fighting for Marxism on campus’, the day school was intended to introduce the [...]
Posted on October 19th 2009 |
Build solidarity on every campus!
Liverpool postie Dave Carr explains why students should back the Postal Strike and build solidarity on campus.
1. Why are postal workers striking?
The reason the CWU are giving is because Royal Mail are failing to honour the agreement struck to end the 2007 strikes. Many changes have been made, but [...]
Posted on October 19th 2009 |
Rhetoric, stunts, and divisions
Chris Brandler assesses the left’s mobilisation in Manchester against the English Defence League
The English Defence League managed to pull in around 700 supporters from across the country for its October 10 demonstration in Manchester. They appear to be an odd mix of politically disorientated, white, male workers, football firm hooligans, the sincerely [...]
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