by Laurie Smith Alliance for Worker's Liberty members have been trying to smuggle their poisonous pro-imperialist politics into the Sheffield occupation for Gaza. For those not in the know, the AWL are a small Marxist group bureaucratically controlled by the dear leader Sean Matgamna and a close circle around him. Uniquely on the left, they refuse ...
By Laurie Smith, CS Sheffield Sheffield University became the 34th university to be occupied on Monday March 16 when students took control of two lecture theatres in the Hicks building right outside the Student's Union. The willingness of students to act in a radical fashion has been thoroughly inspiring, and this has been no different in ...
Laurie Smith, Communist Students candidate for President of Sheffield University Student's Union, reports on the elections now the results are in This year's election yielded few surprises. The campaigns of the right wing and the genuinely apolitical have consisted of the usual mixture of uncontroversial, token policies, appalling slogans and embarrassing gimmicks. Nods toward the environment ...
I'm Laurie Smith and I'm standing for President of Sheffield Student's Union 2009. I am a Marxist and a member of Communist Students, and I believe student politics needs to be about more than just personalities and the crushing bureaucracy they inhabit- no wonder hardly anyone votes! When standing before I have always made clear that ...
Here are two more videos from the Communist University North event which took place at Sheffield University in May. The event was co-organised by Communist Students and the Communist Party of Great Britain. These videos are of the session on 'Communists and trade unions' which was a debate between Dave Douglas and Alan Stevens. Dave ...
CS stood two candidates for elections to the student union executive at Sheffield University. These videos were taken at the hustings event where candidates are given one-minute speeches and one-minute responses to two cherry-picked questions! Ted North and Laurie Smith- CS candidates for Education Officer and President
Ted North tells of spreading the message in Sheffield For the third time in three years Communist Students will be contesting student union elections at Sheffield University. Last year our five candidates picked up between 5% and 11% of the vote. Not a bad result, especially as they all stood on an openly revolutionary platform during what ...
David Sabbagh reports on the excellent result that Communist Students achieved in the University of Sheffield elections On March 1 the election results for the University of Sheffield student union sabbatical positions were announced. Naturally members of Communist Students who stood, together with supporters, were present for the results. While we never expected to win, given ...
In the student union elections at Sheffield University, Communist Students will be standing five candidates for sabbatical positions and two candidates for the National Union of Students delegate elections. Unlike other left student groups, they will be standing on an openly revolutionary, socialist platform and all Communist Student readers are urged to give them as ...
In January of this year, Carey Davies stood on a communist platform for student union president at Sheffield University. He won 78 votes and got a lot of stick for parts of his platform - including from some comrades on the left of the Education Not for Sale campaign. He explains the reasoning behind some ...