We often dub CS's opponents on the left such as ENS 'economists' – but what does that mean? Economism is an opportunist political trend that denies the central importance of democracy to Marxism. As such it is a broad organism, whose tentacles extend into the lofty heights of political theory and down into the grime of ...
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 ...
Vicky Thompson of Hands Off the People of Iran and Chris Strafford of Communist Students report.. 'Socialists' and the lies they tell They never fail to surprise. Every time you think the ‘Socialist’ Workers Party cannot sink any lower into the depths of blatant hypocrisy and opportunism, they somehow manage to dive a little deeper. Last week, we ...
Jim Grant recounts the last few acts of another left tragedy The in-house student organisation of Respect, nattily named Student Respect, turned out to have had a significant role in the terminal crisis within its host body. It’s worth reminding ourselves of SR’s history. Student Respect was formed in summer 2005, essentially by the SWP ‘turning over’ ...
Elections for the bulk of positions on the NUS NEC take place at annual conference. This year there were fewer candidates than normal for many positions. Sadly this was not because the left had pulled together a ...
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 ...
Dave Isaacson reports from the so-called ‘conference’ of Student Respect, which attracted no more than 80 people - a reflection of the state of the organisation nationally On Sunday December 3 Student Respect held its conference at the ...
On his talk on ‘Education in the neoliberal world’, Rob Owen of the SWP gave a good description of the changing nature of university education over the last 20-30 years. He was, however, somewhat optimistic in his ...
The potential for Student Respect in alliance with the Federation of Student Islamic Societies to make a breakthrough in student politics - and the contradictory results this would have for political and social ...
Dave Isaacson reports on the forthcoming 'conference' of Student Respect On Sunday December 3 Student Respect holds its conference in London’s School of African and Oriental Studies. The college staff tell us that the main room booked for ...