Revolution (Revo), the small youth front controlled by Trotskyist group Workers Power, have recently circulated a proposal amongst the student left calling for a "student coordination". The way this has been circulated was at times cynical. When the statement was distributed at the Stop the War student activists meeting in London on February 7 many activists ...
by Robbie Folkard On October 18, over 200 people, mainly students, took to the streets to protest against a demonstration in Leeds by the self-proclaimed Nazi British People’s Party; a group whose local organiser had just been imprisoned for having nail bombs ready to attack mosques, and a computer containing over 40,000 images of children being ...
Following on from the recent successful launch meeting of the Hands Off the People of Iran campaign in Leeds, Andy Yorke (who was there) and Luke Cooper, both of Workers Power, wrote the article 'Hands off the people of Iran: campaign for action or propaganda bloc?' Here we publish a response written by James Turley, ...
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 ...