by Laurie Smith Daniel Randall does not like to let the facts get in the way of a good hack job, in his reply to Mohsen Sabbagh. While it is tiresome to retread old ground, the discussions we had and the subsequent reports provide a good opportunity to explore differences on the student left. Unfortunately Dan's ...
Unlike the youth and student organisations linked to the major political parties such as Labour, Conservative and the Lib Dems, Communist Students does not rely on a rich parent organisation or any other rich benefactors. Yet we need money to pursue our political work. Campaigning costs money. Our intervention at this years National Union of ...
This article originally appeared in the weekly worker. We are publishing it here so discussion can take place. JT The decision by the Oxford Union debating society to give a platform to BNP leader Nick Griffin and holocaust denier David Irving provoked national controversy. James Turley digs through it all and argues for a particular application ...
Will the left pull together to defeat the NUS bureaucracy in its attempt to abolish the last vestiges of democracy in the student ‘union’? Communist Students member Tina Becker reports What looked like a slightly dull conference organised by Education not for Sale on October 21 suddenly sparked up when a small delegation from the Socialist ...
by Elizabeth Clements Not being a member of any left (or right for that matter) political groups, upon being thrown into a large gang of communists, I very quickly realised religious people were treated sceptically, if not incredulously, as if it isn’t possible for someone living in these modern times to still be taken with the ...
In a breach of movement democracy nothing short of criminal, the bureaucrats who (mis)lead the Stop the War Coalition have, at the 11th hour before Conference, denied the affiliation of Communist Students (along with the Hands Off the People of Iran campaign). Said bureaucrats sent out two near-identical, curt e-mails to us and Hopi (text ...
King's College, London Our stall at King's College was, alongside SOAS, one of the most successful ones yet, with around 30 people expressing their interest in Hands Off The Peoples Of Iran and a number of those looking to set up a Communist ...
It may have escaped your attention, but yesterday was labor day in the USA. Comrades can be forgiven for missing it, since the unions in the world's strongest and most advanced capitalist country are notoriously small and politically weak (quite a coincidence!). Only 12 per cent of workers are unionised, and labor day has become ...
by James Turley As most comrades will be aware, the small British group Workers Power and its network of clone-parties the League For the Fifth International (LFI) has recently fallen on hard times. Last summer, a minority consisting largely of the group's most experienced and talented activists were ejected, forming around a new and impressively ...
At last week's Communist University, an irregular meeting of Communist Students took place as most of the executive and several other members were in attendance. Discussion revolved around our activity at the upcoming fresher's fairs as students begin another year of (costly) education. A new issue of Communist Student will be printed ready for fresher's fairs. ...
by Eric Lee, Source www.labourstart.org In unions in different countries, we call each other by different names. Some unions use the word 'comrade', others use 'colleague'. And many use the terms 'brother' and 'sister' to describe fellow union members. Are we simply using these words because we always have, or do they still have any real ...
BNP leaders Nick Griffin and Mark Collett were recently cleared of inciting racial hatred at Leeds Crown Court. The results of the court case confirms the idiocy of relying on the state to deal with the BNP. It's given them publicity money just cant buy. But what is the BNP and how should socialists fight it? The ...
David Isaccson Reports: On Thu, 2006-11-16 at 19:29 +0000, david isaacson wrote: Comrades, it seems the Unite Against Fascism national office has gone mad and is threatening it own activists with legal action for handing out leaflets. Of course it is not maddness - there is politics behind this. For the UAF leadership (most notably ...