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Letter to AEIP and ENS on left unity

Posted on February 3rd 2010 | 2 comments

Below is a letter which we emailed to both Another Education is Possible and Education Not for Sale on January 29.
Dear comrades,
we understand that Another Education is Possible and Education Not for Sale are in talks, along with Daf Adley (NUS LGBT Chair) and Bellavia Ribeiro-Addy (NUS Black students Chair), about the possiblity of standing [...]

Students and Staff: Shoulder to Shoulder!

Posted on May 11th 2009 | 3 comments
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On Thursday May 7 Communist Students were up at the crack of dawn to attend the picket lines at London Metropolitan University, showing our support for the strike action against outrageous cuts proposals following severe mismanagement and bureaucracy. The pickets were quite well attended and there was  a positive mood amongst the strikers. Students largely [...]

Students and Staff: Shoulder to Shoulder!

Posted on May 6th 2009 | 11 comments
Communist Students UCU Leaflet

Across the country, university staff are facing growing redundancies, increased hours and heavier workloads – the only thing shrinking is their pay packets. The Universities and Colleges Employers Association (UCEA) has sparked this dispute by offering workers a desultory 0.3% pay offer! In real terms, this is a cut as inflation runs at 2.9%. On [...]

Rival NUS?

Posted on March 13th 2009 | No comments
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The AWL are pushing for a new student’s union now they can no longer play ball in NUS- but could only get 12 people to a meeting. Ben Lewis reports…
The Alliance for Workers’ Liberty student group, like the organisation more generally, appears to be somewhat at a loose end. Their chauvinistic rightism on the question [...]

Free Education Demonstration: Educate, Agitate, Organise!

Posted on February 26th 2009 | 5 comments
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Wednesday 25 Free Education Demonstration: Educate, Agitate, Organise!
Around 600 students gathered at SOAS University to demand free education and a living grant for all. Although numbers were slightly lower than had been initially expected, it was very encouraging to see students turn out in such numbers in an action that was organised completely independently of [...]

Where now for the student left?

Posted on February 6th 2009 | 1 comment
Streeting: Labour lackey faced little resistance

The left’s sub-minimum programmes have led to a bureaucrats’ victory, writes Boz Cirrik

After protracted birth pangs, the National Union of Students has finally passed its governance review under the ‘inspirational’ presidency of Wes Streeting.
The package achieved infamy among student left activists for the comprehensive manner in which it destroyed what remained of NUS democracy. [...]

Another politics is possible

Posted on October 31st 2008 | 2 comments
Carry on regardless

Communist Students will be at this Saturday’s ‘Another Education is Possible’ conference. Dave Isaacson reports on the latest SWP front
Since the end of its involvement in the Respect popular front, the Socialist Workers Party has looked rather lost. Without electoralism the SWP has no glue to hold its work together.
The organisation’s response to the ongoing [...]

Sheffield rebels punished

Posted on May 19th 2008 | No comments

by Laurie McCauley, Communist Students
The five rebel delegates from Sheffield University who broke a mandate to vote for the NUS governance review were called to a disciplinary hearing on Wednesday 14th. We were found guilty of breaking the mandate imposed by SRC (Student Representative Council) and have been banned from delegate elections for a year.
At [...]

Chris Strafford for the Block of 12!

Posted on April 1st 2008 | No comments

Chris Strafford, a member of Communist Students and Hands Off The People of Iran, is standing for the NUS Block of 12. This is his election manifesto
As the right-wing NUS bureaucracy prepares to gut what remains of the union’s democratic structures, the fight for free education faces a growing series of setbacks, and resurgent student [...]

Who to vote for

Posted on April 1st 2008 | No comments

The right-wing Labour bureaucracy in the NUS needs to be driven out of office – but not all ‘socialists’ deserve a vote. By Jojo Palmer
Communist Students call on all delegates to only vote for candidates who:
1. Oppose the governance review.
2. Oppose the occupation of Iraq and Afghanistan, stand for the immediate and unconditional withdrawal of [...]

 
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