Beginning on 30 May the University and College Union (UCU), the largest higher and further education trade union in the world, will be holding its national congress in Manchester. On the agenda, among many other things, is a motion submitted from the Kings College London branch of the UCU expressing Read more…
An Intergenerational Commission set up by the Resolution Foundation think-tank has published a report on young Britons’ strained living standards and the elderly’s concerns about health and social care. The report concludes that 25 year-olds should receive a £10,000 “citizen’s inheritance” to help them buy their first home or reduce Read more…
The most recent report from the NUS Poverty Commission, aimed at highlighting the barriers to further education faced by working class students, is the culmination of a year-long study. The problems it highlights are very real ones, which working class students know all too well, of being unable to access Read more…
“There’s a lot we can learn from Karl Marx” according to Jeremy Corbyn. “Marxism is not dead” — those are the words written in the corridors of Goldsmiths university. Indeed, Karl Marx may be dead and buried in Highgate cemetery, but his ideas are very much alive, both within the Read more…
Recent revelations at several university campuses have left even hardened anti-racist campaigners shocked. The abusive, sexually violent and racist language used by students about some of the people they live and work with is stomach-churning. A group of law students at Exeter University were recently revealed to have used WhatsApp Read more…
“The election of France’s youngest-ever president at 39 years of age, by an overwhelming majority, marked a new chapter in France’s history.” The words of Stephane Legrand’s article for a Warwick University publication (the Boar) are an enthusiastic voice for the liberal leader Emmanuel Macron; a voice that is poorly Read more…
In a remarkably honest admission on part of the Conservatives, they revealed their deep-rooted racism with the Cambridge University Conservative Association (CUCA) hosting the white supremacist, Denis Walker on 25 April. Walker was Minister for Education in Ian Smith’s white minority government in what was then Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe), a Read more…
A recent article on the Warwick Tab has attacked the newly elected left-wing presidents of Warwick Labour, Fraser Amos, and Warwick Pride, Ky Andrea, over tweets about LGBT Tories. The “offending” tweets by the President of Warwick Pride say, “Tory Gays F*** off,” and “Tory Gays go home”, whilst Fraser Read more…
On Tuesday 10th April 2018 the Queen Mary student occupation came to a close. For the past 30 days, 20-30 students at Queen Mary, in solidarity with the UCU lecturers’ strikes and against student bursary cuts, occupied the Octagon; a grade II listed space often referred to as “the heart” of the university.
Every crisis in life makes some and breaks others. So it is with the smears of the bourgeois establishment on Jeremy Corbyn and the movement behind him. These pressures too are breaking some whilst steeling others. Take, for example, Joe Smallman’s recent article for politics.co.uk. In his piece, the author Read more…
This year marks a special anniversary. It is 200 years since the birth of Karl Marx, widely considered the greatest mind of the last millennium. 5th May is Karl Marx’s 200th birthday. Join the Marxist Student Federation and Socialist Appeal on this day for a special celebratory event – to Read more…
Headteachers speaking at the National Education Union’s conference this month in Brighton highlighted an increase in the number of young pupils experiencing dire conditions of poverty in England and Wales. Despite the Department of Education’s claim that the Tories have put into place a “social mobility action plan”, which “targets Read more…
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