Tag Archives: Socialist Youth Network
Socialist Youth Network conference report
by Nick Jones The Socialist Youth Network (SYN), the Labour Representation Committee’s (LRC) youth organisation, met at the University of London Union on the 29th March for its annual conference. It has been over a year since the last SYN conference. Readers may remember that Owen Jones, Co-Chair of SYN conference last year, had perused ...
Mountains out of molehills
Leading the Alliance for Workers Liberty’s typically slippery response to our coverage of the Socialist Youth Network launch conference reveals an organisation in crisis and rapidly moving to the right, says James ...
Active and committed
Since issue No1 of this publication members of Communist Students have been involved in a number of events and activities. In November we distributed copies of Communist Student on national demonstrations against top-up fees and climate change. In December we took the message of communism and democracy to the Student Respect national conference. Our comrade Ben Lewis ...
Left network launched
Dave Isaacson reports on the January 13 launch conference of Socialist Youth Network, the Labour Representation Committee’s youth organisation, at the University of London Union The conference started with an opening speech from John McDonnell. He ...
Socialist Youth Network round-up
Weekly Worker ‘my favourite’ Tony Benn was one of three Labour Party politicians who addressed conference as guest speakers. His introductory speech was fairly standard, noting the warmongering, anti-working class policies of New Labour. He said New ...
Engaging with youth
Ben Lewis spoke to Marsha-Jane Thompson, SYN co-chair and one of the conference organisers Looking back to the conference, how do you think it went? I think it went extremely well, although it’s sometimes hard to tell from the ...