Left victories mark start of new era for student movement – NUS Conference 2015 report

2nd May 2015 Socialist Action 0

This year’s NUS Conference (21 – 23 April) for the first time in decades saw the left win the majority of the NUS leadership positions, a majority of the NUS Executive and strengthened support for the policy of free education. The following article, by Aaron Kiely (NUS NEC) and Fiona Edwards (Student Broad Left Secretary), reporting on the Conference was originally published by Student Broad Left.

Forty years after the victory in Vietnam

30th April 2015 Socialist Action 0

By Tom Castle

Forty years ago on April 30 the South Vietnamese capital city of Saigon was finally liberated from US occupation and from control by its South Vietnamese puppet administration. In the Western media it became known as the ‘fall of Saigon’. To the overwhelming majority of Vietnamese and their international supporters it is ‘Ngày giải phóng miền Nam’, the Moment of the Liberation of the South. Saigon is now Ho Chi Minh City.

Notes from the front – of the week 22/4/2015

22nd April 2015 Socialist Action 0

 

Europe’s bloody hands – anti-migrant policies amount to mass murder in the Mediterranean

The drowning of more than 800 people in the Mediterranean Sea on 19 April is the deadliest migrant disaster since the Italian sea rescue operation ‘Mare Nostrum’ ended in October 2014. The decision by the EU to scale back Italy’s naval rescue operations was immoral and indefensible in a civilised society. It amounted to attempting to deal with a migration ‘problem’ by allowing hundreds of people to drown – in other words by killing them.