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Students and Staff: Shoulder to Shoulder!

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On Thursday May 7 Communist Students were up at the crack of dawn to attend the picket lines at London Metropolitan University, showing our support for the strike action against outrageous cuts proposals following severe mismanagement and bureaucracy. The pickets were quite well attended and there was  a positive mood amongst the strikers. Students largely ...

Where now for the student left?

Streeting: Labour lackey faced little resistance

The left's sub-minimum programmes have led to a bureaucrats' victory, writes Boz Cirrik After protracted birth pangs, the National Union of Students has finally passed its governance review under the 'inspirational' presidency of Wes Streeting. The package achieved infamy among student left activists for the comprehensive manner in which it destroyed what remained of NUS democracy. ...

Return of the governance review

As Communist Students predicted in our report of NUS conference, 'NUS: Right prepares for fresh assault', rather than the right being “demoralised and reeling” as the SWP's Rob Owen told us, they have been plotting further attacks on the already very limited democracy of NUS. This can now be clearly seen in the email sent ...