Wellred Books and Socialist Appeal are proud to announce the launch of a new book by Rob Sewell, providing a Marxist analysis of the lessons from the 1918 German Revolution, its defeat, and the subsequent rise of Fascism. ORDER YOUR COPY OF “GERMANY 1918-33: SOCIALISM OR BARBARISM” TODAY FROM Read more…
Once again, this autumn, Marxist students have been out and about on campuses up and down the country signing up eager students to university Marxist societies. This year has been the most successful year yet for the Marxist Student Federation, with thousands signing up to join societies across 33 Read more…
As the Tory party conference draws to a close, it is clear that the threat of a government led by Jeremy Corbyn is ever in the minds of much of the Tory faithful. Their unwavering defence of a decrepit status quo has alienated many – particularly younger – voters, Read more…
Students and Workers, Unite and Fight! On the 27th September, the Save Our Staff student group (Manchester based) organised an Education for Sale panel event. It aimed to highlight the increased effects of marketisation in higher education. Since George Osborne announced a rise in tuition fees in 2010, to ‘bridge the Read more…
In truth, there are many experiences and thoughts which have led me to Marxism. Having traveled extensively as a child, it’s hard not to visit the Global South and its poor masses and question the economic structures which exploit them. Also, as the son of a father whose childhood Read more…
King’s College London management recently announced the pay rises its workforce could look forward to come the new academic year. Basing itself on the outrageous 2% UCEA (Universities and Colleges’ Employers Association) offer, over which UCU is currently balloting its members for industrial action, King’s announced that staff at Read more…
On 4 October hospitality workers from McDonald’s, Wetherspoon’s and TGI Friday’s will take strike action demanding decent pay and working conditions. The Marxist Student Federation will be on the McDonald’s picket line in Brixton on Thursday 4 October, and we will be at the strike rally in Leicester Square at Read more…
On 20 September, an open letter from a representative of the Peking University (PKU) Marxist Society (MS) in Beijing, China began circulating on Chinese social media. The letter detailed the significant difficulty that the society faced this month in finding a faculty advisor required to re-register as a recognised Read more…
In the 2017-18 academic year there were 95 students at UK universities who took their own lives. 10 suicides have taken place just at the University of Bristol since October 2016. Meanwhile, there are five times as many first-year students across the country now reporting mental health issues than Read more…
During the UCU strike earlier this year, there were revelations about expenses claimed by university vice-chancellors for luxury hotels and pornstar martinis. Now, another scandal has broken. Members of senior management at Northumbria University in Newcastle Upon Tyne have received over £600,000 in bonuses over the past four years, Read more…
New waves of student protest have been erupting in the universities and colleges in Mexico City. Students in all the major universities in the capital have come out en masse in solidarity after 14 students at UNAM (National Autonomous University of Mexico) were injured by porros (semi-fascist shock group) Read more…
What: Marx Walk around London When: 2pm, Saturday 6 October Where: UCL main square, Gower Street Facebook event here The Marxist Student Federation will be giving a tour of the places in central London where Marx lived, politicised, and socialised. Karl Marx spent several years living and working in London. The First Read more…
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