Delegates at the recent PCS union's annual conference voted overwhelmingly to affiliate to the Hands Off the People of Iran campaign. This is fantastic news for the campaign and will hopefully open up opportunities for the campaign to win further serious support from the working class movement. There is a similar motion supporting HOPI which ...
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 ...
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 ...
Here we publish a letter that has been sent to Communist Student from comrade Charlie Pottins. The issue of an academic boycott is certainly one that has not been debated fully or seriously by most of the left, so we hope that this letter can stimulate some debate here on our blog... Dear Comrades, After hearing that ...
Communist Students is standing Chris Strafford as a candidate in the elections for the National Union of Students national executive committee. Read his manifesto here. And join the Facebook group here.
Will the left pull together to defeat the NUS bureaucracy in its attempt to abolish the last vestiges of democracy in the student ‘union’? Communist Students member Tina Becker reports What looked like a slightly dull conference organised by Education not for Sale on October 21 suddenly sparked up when a small delegation from the Socialist ...
First published in Communist Student no.3- click on pics to go to group's website Student Respect/Socialist Worker Student Society: In all probability the largest student group (although that’s not saying much), you will find them everywhere telling you that things such as war and islamophobia are - get this - really bad. Secretly run by: The Socialist Workers ...
First published in Communist Student no.3 Surely, the left fights unequivocally for the rights of all lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender individuals? Unfortunately, it’s not so straightforward, says Nicholas Jones At first glance, it seems that the issue of rights for lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) people has reached unparalleled prevalence on the far left. Every ...
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 ...
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 ...
Members of the Socialist Workers Party tried to throw CPGB students out of a public meeting. Dave Isaacson reports In the past week, as well as continuing to sign people up at various freshers fairs, Communist Students groups ...