One year after breaking into the lobby of Tory HQ at Millbank, on November 9 students marched through London again, the central themes being tuition fees, soaring youth unemployment and the restructuring of higher education. Attendance was around 8,000-10,000 (though police estimates put it at much less), significantly lower than last year. This should be expected ...
Laurie Smith reports on a split in the student anti-cuts movement. (first published in the Weekly Worker) The Alliance for Workers’ Liberty and Workers Power have vied for influence in the National Campaign Against Fees and Cuts (NCAFC) since its formation over a year ago, but their tense marriage of convenience appears to ...
The defeat of Clare Solomon offers us a snapshot of the student movement, argues Ben Lewis. First published in the Weekly Worker. Elections can be used as a barometer of the class struggle and an insight into the health of our own forces. Notwithstanding the peculiar dynamics within the world of student politics, this ...
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 ...
The student occupation of the Large Shandon Lecture Theatre in the main building of Cardiff University led by Cardiff Students Against War ended last night (26th Feb), after receiving the news that Cardiff University has divested all shares from BAe Systems and the aerospace arm of General Electric. The University has instructed its external fund ...
Having brushed Student Respect under the carpet, the SWP launched their new student front on November 1st, on almost identical politics to Education Not for Sale. Dan Read and Dave Isaacson were there. CS proposals to conference- click here Another politics is possible- click here Most of the 150 or so student activists who gathered in London for ...
Communist Students will be at this Saturday's 'Another Education is Possible' conference. Dave Isaacson reports on the latest SWP front Since the end of its involvement in the Respect popular front, the Socialist Workers Party has looked rather lost. Without electoralism the SWP has no glue to hold its work together. The organisation's response to the ongoing ...
Initiated by the Socialist Worker Student Society, this conference looks to set up a project almost identical to Education Not for Sale. CS members will be there to argue for radical politics and democracy in the student movement- expect a report after the conference. Info from: www.anothereducationispossible.org.uk Building a Democratic Campaigning Student Movement As the impact of the ...
From the People's Youth Bloc On June 26, at around 10.40pm, comrade Ángel Humberto Martínez Cerón was assassinated just a few metres from his home. He was the General Coordinator of the "January 24" Revolutionary Socialist Students Block (known as BERS-24). The political activity this revolutionary young militant was involved in was the reason why the ...
The sectarianism and economism of the left has prevented a united challenge in the NUS elections. By James Turley Sofie Buckland, it seems, is very annoyed indeed. Buckland, member of the Alliance for Workers' Liberty (AWL), its student front Education Not for Sale (ENS), and the NUS's ‘block of 12' (a part-time group of officers), had been ...
Communist Students have recently been in contact with comrades from the Socialist Student Movement in South Africa. They have asked us to publicise their struggle for democratic rights. Please read their article 'Don’t let the SRCs turn UKZN into a Banana Republic'. We will keep in touch with our comrades from the SSM and ...
At the founding conference of Communist Students in Sheffield on Saturday December 9, some 20 comrades, most of them not members of the CPGB, were present. Ted North reports Tina Becker began the conference with a speech addressing ...
Dave Isaacson replies to Sofie Buckland of the Alliance for Workers' Liberty It is to be welcomed that Sofie Buckland of the Alliance for Workers' Liberty has written a response to my article on student politics and the ...