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Where now for the student left?

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

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

by Laurie Smith, 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!

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

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 ...

No platform: not always the answer

All democrats, socialists and democrats should reject efforts by student unions to actually increase state censorship. By Shelley Martin The NUS has an automatic ‘no platform policy' in place, which bans all members of the British National Party and the Islamic organisation Hizb ut-Tahrir from standing in NUS elections on any levels. It also bans them ...

Two motions on Iran that NUS conference will discuss

The original motion pushed by the Alliance for Workers' Liberty displayed its soft position on imperialism (No804): "Conference believes: That the current chaos, sectarian conflict and corporate plunder consuming Iraq proves that American (and British) military adventures in the Middle East have almost inevitably disastrous consequences" (my emphasis). This slippery formulation has been changed at the ...

No to sectionalism!

The NUS women's officer campaigns have been marked by their economism. By Anne McShane The election of a women's officer has importance in a period when women's rights are under attack. Chief among these is the threat to abortion rights. Now women can have an abortion up to the first 24 weeks of pregnancy, with the ...

Video of CS candidates for Sheffield 08

CS stood two candidates for elections to the student union executive at Sheffield University. These videos were taken at the hustings event where candidates are given one-minute speeches and one-minute responses to two cherry-picked questions! Ted North and Laurie Smith- CS candidates for Education Officer and President

Chris Strafford for NUS block of 12!

CS member Chris Strafford is standing for the NUS block of 12 on a full revolutionary platform. Join the facebook group! Here is his manifesto: As the NUS bureaucracy - ever more firmly in the grip of the right - prepares to gut what remains of the union’s democratic structures, the fight for free education faces ...

Is the NUS worth saving?

It sounds almost farcical: why would the leadership of the National Union of Students try to abolish democracy in its own organisation? CS member Tina Becker reports Let’s be honest. Most students don’t really know what the NUS is, let alone what it does or how it operates. And who can blame them? Currently, it is ...

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