Lancaster University Department of Continuing Education (DCE) is under threat. The university's Vice Chancellor announced a "reduction in activities" which could leave thousands of part-time students unable to complete their studies. It is also an explicit threat to the jobs of the forty staff in DCE - staff are already being encouraged to look for ...
Check out these videos relating to the fantastic strike by 25,000 US dockers calling for the immediate end to the imperialist occupation of Iraq which shut down the west coast. They were also joined on strike that day by dockers in Iraq itself!
social-imperialists of the AWL take note... May Day 2008 Statement from the Iraqi Labour Movement To the Workers and All Peace Loving People of the World On this day of international labour solidarity we call on our fellow trade unionists and all those worldwide who have stood against war and occupation to increase support for our struggle ...
Picture: Iranian May Day demonstration in 2007. May Day Greetings from Hands Off the People of Iran (this message has been sent in Farsi to a range of organisations in Iran) To our brothers and sisters in Iran, We in Hands Off The People of Iran (HOPI) wish to send our May Day greetings of solidarity to you. ...
CS executive statement on the teacher's strike called for tomorrow, Thursday 24th April. The strike is being called by the National Union of Teachers (NUT) and the University and College Union (UCU) in protest at low pay. Communist Students calls on all students to support the striking teachers, lecturers and civil servants. Further Education lecturers ...
By Laurie Smith Communist Students stood two more candidates in the second round of elections to the Sheffield Student Union executive. As reported in the WW712, our first round candidates Ted North (Education) and Laurie Smith (President) received just over 5% of the first and second preference votes, and I was elected as a delegate to NUS ...
The government's Department for Innovation, Universities and Skills has just published a strategy document entitled, 'Higher Education at Work – High Skills: High Value'. You can read it here on the DIUS website. Quite rightly the University and College Union have been highly critical of the government's plans to give even greater influence to business. ...
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 ...
Below is a press release from the Committee in Defence of Mahmoud Salehi For Immediate Release: April 6, 2008- According to the Committee in Defense of Mahmoud Salehi, Mahmoud Salehi, a well known and one of the most courageous labour leaders in Iran, was finally released today, Sunday, April ...
Although the NUS is hardly the fighting organisation that students need, we must defeat the right-wing attacks on democracy in the NUS - and the April 1-3 conference is the last chance to stop the bureaucrats. By Tina Becker It wasn't really a surprise that at the NUS extraordinary conference on December 4 2007 just over ...
All democrats, socialists and democrats should reject efforts by student unions to actually increase state censorship. By Shelley Martin The NUS has an automatic ‘no platform policy' in place, which bans all members of the British National Party and the Islamic organisation Hizb ut-Tahrir from standing in NUS elections on any levels. It also bans them ...
Delegates at the National Union of Teachers' conference voted yesterday to "support teachers and schools in opposing Ministry of Defence recruitment activities that are based upon misleading propaganda". The motion also called for the immediate withdrawal of troops from Iraq and Afghanistan, and for protests if there is any attack on Iran. Check out these ...
Hat-tip to Dave Broder and the Workers Liberty-sponsored Middle East Workers' Solidarity group. The International Longshore and Warehouse Union recently passed a motion calling for industrial action to protest the continuing assault on Iraq and Afghanistan. The motion calls the war 'bipartisan' and criticises both the main bourgeois parties in America, and proposes an 8 ...