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 Royal Mail now wishes ...
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 ...
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.
Saturday October 17 2009 Manchester University Student Union, Oxford Road Meeting Room 1, 10am - 6pm Capitalism is in its deepest crisis since the 1930s. The world is at an historic turning point. The crisis comes at an enormous human cost – soaring unemployment, house repossessions, wage cuts and attacks on basic services and social security provision. The ...
'Basti' from the Revolutionary Socialist Organisation in Switzerland gave a talk on 'Marxism, Crisis and Youth at the Manchester Communist Students branch meeting on May 12th which was attended by comrades from University of Manchester, Manchester Metropolitan University and Manchester College. His speech gave an analysis of the crisis of capitalism and how marxists should ...
Members from Manchester and Sheffield Communist Students attended the May Day march and rally in Manchester. It was a small affair attracting between 400 and 500 people. We distributed copies of Communist Student, the Weekly Worker and HOPI 'Smash the Sanctions' leaflets. Below is a report from the blog Infantile and Disorderly, which is run by ...
On April 30 two members of Communist Students in Manchester attended the Manchester launch of the Left Nationalist No 2 EU - Yes To Democracy campaign. The attendance was a paltry eight, and of those eight three were from the Morning Star’s CPB, one from the Socialist Party of England and Wales (SPEW), one from ...
Members of Manchester Hands Off the People of Iran and supporters from the Iranian community held a demonstration in solidarity with the Iranian students’ movement on March 25. The demonstrators held pictures of the recently arrested students and carried a banner which read, ‘Free our comrades’. We called the demonstration in solidarity with members of the ...
Chris Strafford reports on a struggle that brought many new activists into the movement On Friday March 6 the long-running student occupation at the University of Manchester ended. After 31 days of pro-Gaza solidarity in three different buildings students left after forcing the vice-chancellor into negotiations. The whole episode has re-energised the student movement - ...
Manchester Metropolitan University Students Union has for a very long time been a safe seat for careerists, the student union has been run essentially under the leadership of Labour Students who trick, manipulate and fool students to a point where the students of MMU have no control and no influence over a body which is ...
This Saturday there will be a Reclaim the Night March from 7.30pm at the Students' Union. The aim is to reclaim the streets from gender-based violence. The march itself this year will take an unconventional route, and will be torch-lit. Afterwards there will be a rally at the Union, with speakers from Feminist Fightback, the ...
Since Wednesday Manchester students have occupied buildings across campus, causing massive disruption. Students have moved the occupation three times with students occupying two building yesterday including the central sorting office for the entire University, causing chaos. The police trie dto use threats to get us out of the postal office only retreating after they could ...
Tue 18th Nov 2008 at 17:30 UMSU Meeting Room 2 As the world falls into economic crisis Latin America has blown up with mass movements bringing Left wing governments in Bolivia and Venezuela. Far-right forces in Bolivia are preparing a major assault on the Evo Morales government, with students and trade unionists being ...