Laurie Smith reports and Zuri Zurowski comments on a meeting attended by Christians and communists On December 8, Jack Conrad of the CPGB spoke on ‘Jesus: prophet, son of god, or revolutionary?’ at the School of Oriental and African Studies, addressing a meeting organised by Communist Students. It was attended by around 25 people from a ...
CS London are hosting a festive meeting at SOAS (School of Oriental and African Studies) student union next Tuesday. Jack Conrad, author of 'Fantastic Reality: Marxism and the politics of religion' and member of the Communist Party of Great Britain will be discussing the historical Jesus and the role of religion in capitalist society. All welcome- ...
Sex education must be comprehensive, clear, and compulsory, writes James Turley Nothing gets up the back of hard-line reactionaries like sex - and, more importantly, under-18s getting anywhere near it without asking their mothers. One particularly well known point of contention in all this is sex education - who should get it, what they should get and ...
Jack Conrad (CPGB), author of Fantastic Reality: Marxism and the Politics of Religion, asks who the real Jesus was. This video was recorded at a recent Communist Students public meeting.
Communist Students last meeting in London before the Christmas break will be a public debate on the subject of 'Jesus: revolutionary resistance fighter or son of God?' Jack Conrad of the Communist Party of Great Britain, and author of 'Fantastic Reality: Marxism and the politics of religion', will debate a Christian student. All are welcome, and ...
First published in the Weekly Worker 732 Yassamine Mather demolishes the AWL leader's falsehoods... and CS member Ben Lewis was present when the AWL set up yet another posing front group In Iran there is a saying used when someone makes a comment based on a number of falsehoods, leading to an even sillier conclusion. It ...
First published in the Weekly Worker 732 There should be no place for Sean Matgamna in any principled Marxist organisation, write CS member James Turley and Mark Fischer After his article in Solidarity of July 24, it should be axiomatic that Sean Matgamna - the loose-cannon patriach of the Alliance for Workers' Liberty - be expelled from ...
Following the Geneva talks, the threat against Iran is as real as ever, argues Ben Lewis Those concerned about the prospect of Iran being bombed back into the stone age may have been encouraged by the recent attempts at diplomacy and negotiations between the US, Britain, France, Germany, China, Russia and Iran over the weekend of ...
Rahim Bandoui (Baluchistan People’s Party) speaks on the history of the national question in Iran at the Hands Off the People of Iran weekend school (June 14-15).
There have been renewed attempts by the government to get universities to spy and report on ‘suspicious' students. But is the NUS ‘no platform' policy the right way forward? By Dave Isaacson A year and a half ago I wrote an article for the first edition of Communist Student entitled ‘Defend Muslims!' It was a response ...
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 ...
First published in Communist Student no.3 Should communists support the campaign for a boycott of Israeli academic institutions? Dave Isaacson discusses the issue At the University and College Union's inaugural conference on May 30 2007, a motion was passed committing the union to debate the arguments for and against an academic boycott of Israeli universities. As the ...
The following communication was received from the Dundee University Socialist Society The following letter was agreed following a meeting of the Student Socialist Society at Dundee University. We are contacting people / societies / organisations who we feel may share our concerns over the Student Advisory Service permitting the presence of SBCCU (special branch) on campus ...