Callum Williamson reports on a demo which showcased the weaknesses of both right and left in the student movement Whilst the student demonstration on Wednesday November 21 did not exactly shake national politics, it was the scene of a political struggle between elements of the student left (led to some extent by the National Campaign Against ...
This is the text of a leaflet distributed by CS members at the NUS anti-cuts demonstration on Wednesday 21st November. Click on the image to download a PDF version. The world is in economic chaos – and social devastation is everywhere the result. Around 40,000 Greek children are starving, living standards across Europe are plummeting and ...
At a National Union of Students extraordinary conference yesterday, the NUS leadership got what they have been wanting for some time. They have gutted NUS of the bulk of its already pitifully cramped internal democracy; after the passing of the governance review by a two-thirds majority at a previous extraordinary conference on November 12 2008, ...
Communist Students member James Turley sees little prospect of future success for Socialist Action and Respect: When the Respect (un)popular front split last autumn, it provided something of a parlour game for the rest of the left - which fragment would collapse first? The Socialist Workers Party was seriously rocked internally by the nakedly apolitical nature of ...
As Communist Students predicted in our report of NUS conference, 'NUS: Right prepares for fresh assault', rather than the right being “demoralised and reeling” as the SWP's Rob Owen told us, they have been plotting further attacks on the already very limited democracy of NUS. This can now be clearly seen in the email sent ...
After posting links to our reports of NUS conference to the education.net message boards comrades from Communist Students have been engaged in a debate with the AWL's Sacha Ismail ('left opposition boy') over a number of important questions. To read the debate so far (and get involved) click here.
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