Theory and analysis

Capitalism, revolution and the need for socialism

Working people all over the world are realising, in greater and greater numbers, that they are exploited. In Britain, Russell Brand and UKIP offer radically different explanations for the situation people have found themselves in since the onset of the global capitalist crisis. But Brand’s confused revolution rhetoric, although engaging, is not enough on its own. Che Guevara was wrong to say that the apple of revolution will not fall by Read more…

By Marxist Student, 9 yearsMay 5, 2015 ago

The Siege of Sidney Street

January 3rd 1911 was the date that the full force of the British state was pitted against two Latvian anarchists, or former Latvarian Social Democrats to be precise, taking refuge in an East End property. The two Jewish radicals named Fritz Svaars and William Sokolow held their own for seven hours against 200 armed police, a detachment of Scots Guards from the Tower of London, and if the siege would have Read more…

By Marxist Student, 9 yearsApril 8, 2015 ago

Invest in education – stop funding exploitation

After being informed that a third of accommodation fees, which have risen by more than 20% in the last three years, will go into “capital and borrowing”, students at Durham demanded to know what exactly the University is investing in. A Freedom of Information request revealed that in the last quarter of 2014, Durham University – through their investment manager at Sarasin & Partners – invested in a range of unsavoury Read more…

By Marxist Student, 9 yearsApril 7, 2015 ago

Marxism and Anarchism

To mark the publication of Marxism and Anarchism, we publish below a review of this text by Archie Marshall, President of the LSEsu Marxist Society and member of the MSF Executive Committee. ——————————– The 2008 economic collapse had a radicalizing effect on students and young workers, who are always the first to respond to these earth-shaking events. In the face of all this, however, the politicians who purport to represent the working class Read more…

By Marxist Student, 9 yearsApril 2, 2015 ago

Einstein’s solidarity with students fighting for socialism

136 years ago this month, in March 1879, Albert Einstein was born. His contribution to science is unquestionable, but lesser known are his political views. Einstein was a convinced socialist and wrote an essay in defence of socialism in which he discusses the role of the individual in society and concludes: “the economic anarchy of capitalist society as it exists today is, in my opinion, the real source of the evil…I Read more…

By Marxist Student, 9 yearsMarch 26, 2015 ago

Solidarity from Mexico with the LSE occupation

The students organised in the Polytechnic Students Committee of Struggle-Revolutionary Student Union (CLEP-UER) send revolutionary greetings from Mexico to the students at LSE. We show our solidarity in the struggle that they have taken up in defence of public education. In Mexico, just a few months ago, the most important student strike since 1968 in the National Polytechnic Institute ended. We lasted 78 days on strike , during which time we Read more…

By Marxist Student, 9 years ago

Solidarity from Venezuela with the LSE occupation and the MSF

The Marxist Youth of Venezuela, the youth wing of Class Struggle, expresses its support for the students of the London School of Economics (LSE) who on 18 March bravely occupied the main meeting room of the university. We offer our solidarity and revolutionary greetings to your movement: “Occupy LSE – Free University of London” and to the Marxist Student Federation. In Venezuela we recognise your inspirational struggle for a university that Read more…

By Marxist Student, 9 years ago

Italian school students fight for their education

On 12th March 2015 Italian students demonstrated all across the country against the decree-law “good school” (Buona Scuola) presented the very same day to the Cabinet. The demonstrations involved almost 40 cities throughout Italy although this was not the largest mobilization we’ve seen in the recent period. Students already mobilized against the “Good School” last October. The need to reaffirm their disagreement stemmed from the indifference of the government which was deaf and Read more…

By Marxist Student, 9 yearsMarch 19, 2015 ago

Occupy LSE – Free University of London

Students at LSE have occupied the Vera Anstey Suite, the central meeting room of the university administration, to fight for an end to profit-driven education and the marketisation of the university. Members of the LSE Marxist Society are among those students involved with the occupation. The Marxist Student Federation is fully in support of this occupation and its demands. The fight against privatisations, marketisation and the putting of profits before students Read more…

By Marxist Student, 9 yearsMarch 18, 2015 ago

Mass anti-austerity movement brewing in Québec

Twenty-four student organizations, representing over 30,000 students, have voted to go on strike in Québec on March 21, with 100,000 students yet to vote. The demonstrations, largely led and organized by the militant student association ASSÉ (Association pour une solidarité syndicale étudiante), are a response to province-wide austerity measures that have impacted everything from education to pensions. Many people are wondering if this movement will turn into another “Maple Spring” as Read more…

By Marxist Student, 9 yearsMarch 16, 2015 ago

Women in the Egyptian revolution: interview with Sarah Nagaty and Asmaa Bashir

In celebration of International (Working) Women’s Day, Marxist Student interviewed two women who were among the millions involved in the Egyptian Revolution of the last four years. Sarah Nagaty is an Egyptian post-graduate student studying in Portugal, as well as a member of the Sheffield Marxist Society and the Marxist Student Federation. Asmaa Bashir is a civil society worker living and working in Cairo. Here’s what they had to say. What Read more…

By Marxist Student, 9 yearsMarch 9, 2015 ago

A woman’s place is in the revolution

To celebrate International Working Women’s Day 2015 Natasha Sorrell from the Sheffield Marxists discusses women in revolution throughout history. Below we reproduce several quotations from Lenin, Kollontai and others on the same subject. “No party or revolution in the world has ever dreamed of striking so deep at the roots of the oppression and inequality of women as the Soviet, Bolshevik revolution is doing.” – Lenin, International Working Women’s Read more…

By Marxist Student, 9 yearsMarch 8, 2015 ago

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