Laurie Smith reports on Saturday’s ‘student coordination’ event On April 18, around 70 student activists met at University College London for the ‘student coordination’ instigated by Revolution, the youth group of Workers Power. Though 70 people is not bad for a new student left initiative - testament to the impact of the university occupations over Gaza in ...
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 ...
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 ...