[1] At its 2010 conference members of Communist Students voted overwhelmingly to change its constitution and declared itself an autonomous organisation.
In this paper they have covered issues ranging from student fees, Iran, Palestine, democracy on the left, and a debate on how to fight fascism.
[7] As with most Marxist political groups, the core strategic aim of Communist Students is the revolutionary overthrow of capitalist society and its ultimate replacement with communism.
However, it also stresses the importance of building active solidarity with the "working class progressive, democratic and secular forces fighting not only the presence of imperialism, but also their own ‘national’ oppressors".
[8] Other groups on the far-left frequently criticise CS for being propagandistic, and failing to "advance a perspective and strategy for the concrete struggles of workers and students today", in the words of Revolution.