Communist candidates discuss student elections | Communist Radio #17

While campaigning on campus for a communist programme to fight the university cuts, some people we spoke to branded our demands as “unrealistic”. But is this the case? Is it any more ‘realistic’ to expect crumbs from the bosses’ table if we ask nicely?

Revolutionary candidate Alice Nicholson won 1,000 votes for a communist programme in Cardiff University Student Union elections. In this letter, she reveals the political lessons she learned and the obstacles she had to overcome during the campaign.

Faced with an onslaught of attacks from the university bosses, lecturers and academic staff organised in the UCU are stepping into struggle in several places. In Newcastle, the Communists have made waves among the staff and students on the picket lines.