Theory and analysis

What would socialist policies look like?

In these talks from the Marxist Student Federation National Conference 2016 “The Road to Revolution”, revolutionaries look at what demands Marxists should be raising in the Corbyn movement and beyond. Joe Attard of the KCL Marxist society and KCL UCU branch introduced the discussions by outlining the contradictions and crisis within the global capitalist system today. Beatrice Papapietro from the Southampton Marxist society and Southampton UNISON discusses a socialist programme on foreign Read more…

By Marxist Student, ago

School cuts – children forced to learn in ‘deplorable conditions’ a symptom of capitalism’s dead end

According to reports from teachers in Wales, a generation of children and teenagers are being forced to learn in ‘deplorable conditions’. This demonstrates the real life effects of cuts to education and school building programs since 2010 in the UK. While the Welsh government claims that it will invest up to £2bn in schools over the next decade, currently students are learning in conditions described as ‘Dickensian’ by teaching professionals. Furthermore, the Read more…

By Marxist Student, ago

Stop Trident – Start a Revolution! [Leaflet]

This leaflet may be downloaded as a PDF here ================================================================================================ Join the Marxist Student Federation on Saturday 27 February when we will be part of the youth and student bloc on the CND demo to stop Trident. Assemble at Marble Arch at midday for a march to Trafalgar Square where there will be a mass rally. Full details are here Facebook event here For a Marxist analysis of Trident see here If you’d Read more…

By Marxist Student, ago

Student ‘Sugar Babies’: Corporate pimps and the sweet sickness of capitalism

In the past year, a quarter of a million students in the UK are said to have signed up to become “sugar babies”, a marketing euphemism referring to those who are paid for their company by rich “sugar mummies and daddies”. According to the annual review of SeekingArrangement.com, which was founded in 2006 and is now the world’s largest sugar daddy dating site, more than 225,000 students registered on its site in Read more…

By Marxist Student, ago

University vice-chancellors pay scandal – for democratically elected management on a workers’ wage!

University vice-chancellors’ average salaries ballooned to £272,000 last year, a £12,000 increase on 2014. Freedom of Information requests by the University and Colleges Union (UCU) uncovered these “inflation-busting” pay packages, along with additional data on expenses that reveal the lavish lifestyles enjoyed by fatcats leeching off the university sector. The UCU report suggests that vice-chancellors’ average expenditure on flights in 2015 was £8,560.37, with 50% of flights charged to university accounts being in Read more…

By Marxist Student, ago

Solidarity Statement to the Students at Jawaharlal Nehru University

The recent events in New Delhi and Jawaharlal Nehru University are an assault on the autonomy of the student body from both the government and the university administration as a whole. Both the cancellation of a student-led event by JNU administration (despite previous permissions given for the event to take place), and the arrest of the JNUSU President, Kanhaiya Kumar, are examples of the increasing heavy-handedness of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP)-led Read more…

By Marxist Student, ago

Cut the Rent and Homes for All

The resolution below, supporting the rent strike taking place at UCL, was passed unanimously by the Marxist Student Federation conference last weekend. In addition we publish below a policy motion on housing that has been submitted to the Young Labour national conference by a group of Marxists. Please get in touch if you would like to add you name to the motion to show your support. Both this resolution and this motion Read more…

By Marxist Student, ago

Stop Trident, Start a Revolution

Join the Marxist Student Federation on Saturday 27 February when we will be part of the youth and student bloc on the CND demo to stop Trident. Assemble at Marble Arch at midday for a march to Trafalgar Square where there will be a mass rally. Full details are here Facebook event here For a Marxist analysis of Trident see here If you’d like to join the MSF bloc fill in the Read more…

By Marxist Student, ago

For anti-war, socialist Labour MPs

Last week comrades in the Marxist Society and supporters of the Socialist Appeal newspaper proposed a motion to the Hyde Park and Woodhouse Labour Party ward in Leeds Central CLP (Hilary Benn’s constituency) strongly condemning the bombing of Syria. After being amended it passed with a strong majority and is now being circulated to the wider movement. Below is the motion as it was passed: This branch acknowledges: That the rise of Daesh is Read more…

By Marxist Student, ago

The Road to Revolution: most successful conference yet!

Over 100 young revolutionaries gathered at SOAS in London on 13 February for the largest ever national conference of the Marxist Student Federation. Among them were delegates from all over the country, from Durham to Brighton and from Swansea to Southend, as well as a representative from the Pittsburgh Marxist Student Association in the USA. The conference was opened by Joe Attard from the KCL Marxist society and UCU, who is leading Read more…

By Marxist Student, ago

International greetings to the Marxist Student Federation: Workers of the World Unite!

The messages below were sent to the Marxist Student Federation from our comrades around the world. International solidarity is one of our greatest strengths and sources of inspiration. Workers of the world unite! —————————- Comrades of the Marxist Student Federation, We send you our warm greetings! The recent developments on a world scale are proof of the correctness of the Marxist ideas. The emergence of ISIS and the refugee crisis are clear Read more…

By Marxist Student, ago

Freedom of Information Act under fire from marketisation of education

A number of British universities, including the whole of the Russell Group, have demanded that they should be exempt from the Freedom of Information (FoI) Act. FoI requests are one of the limited tools allowed by the capitalist state for student activists and journalists to garner some information on how university management acts; discovering agreements with big business, or pay differentials between employees. Since the FoI Act’s inception in 2000 there have been Read more…

By Marxist Student, ago

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