Here we republish two letters concerning Communist Students attitude towards the 'Reclaim the Campus' conference which re-launched the Education Not for Sale front of the Alliance for Workers Liberty. These letters appeared first in the Weekly Worker. Absurd I write in astonishment at the absurdity of Ben Klein’s article, ‘Rebranding exercise flops’ (May 22). As part of ...
As expected, the Reclaim the Campus conference on May 17 did not cohere the student left around a worthwhile set of principled politics. Instead it was a rebranding exercise for Education Not for Sale, the Alliance for Workers' Liberty's student front. Ben Klein reports The Reclaim the Campus conference was meant to refocus and broaden Education ...
Communist Students members Dave Isaacson and Ben Klein reject economism and put forward the case for Marxism: Left unity not on offer This weekend will, farcically, see two separate gatherings to discuss ‘left unity’ in the student movement. Firstly, the ‘Reclaim the Campus’ event on Saturday May 17, called by the Alliance for Workers’ Liberty-run Education Not ...
James Turley looks at the prospects for Education Not for Sale's 'Reclaim the Campus' event: Unlike the forced good cheer emanating from the Socialist Workers Party, the response of Education Not for Sale to the narrow defeat of the National Union of Students governance review has at least had a touch of sobriety: “The left should ...
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.
Communist Students member James Turley has written this contribution to a debate over the future of Education Not for Sale and the tasks of the student left in the aftermath of NUS conference: 'Solidarity' or the politics of Marxism The annual conference of the National Union of Students was nothing if not dramatic. The main event was ...