Cambridge University invests more than £370 million in fossil fuels and has close ties with oil and energy companies. Between 2009 and 2014, the university received £15.8 million in funding from carbon-intensive companies. In 2000, BP gave the university £22 million to establish a research centre. The vast sums of Read more…
This weekend Marxist students will be at the October Revolution festival in central London for a celebration of Marxist ideas 100 years after the Russian Revolution. See below for some taster videos for a few of the sessions at the festival. The full agenda is below. See you at the Read more…
Mr Rowland’s article ‘Das Krapital’ of 04/10/17 rings with the familiar unpleasant cynicism of the hard Right, as well as peddling some of the most tired, tepid and easily assailable criticisms of socialism to ever grace a page. Given its utterly paltry content, I’m simply going to deal with his Read more…
Karl Marx spent many years living and working in London. He spent part of that time living in Dean Street in Soho, just up the road from a flat in Chinatown that was once occupied by Frederick Engels. The First International, Marx’s revolutionary organisation, had its HQ in Soho. This Read more…
Last weekend the Glasgow Marxists made our way across to Edinburgh to protest the disgusting treatment by the Spanish authorities of Catalans trying to express their basic democratic right to vote. We had all heard about the intimidation that had been going on before the referendum, and as Sunday morning Read more…
The ideas of Karl Marx, summed up in writings like The Communist Manifesto and Capital, have stood the test of time. How many other books from 150 years ago are still able to interpret and explain the modern world? Most of the writings of Marx’s contemporaries are of historical interest Read more…
Since mid-September Marxist students all over Britain have been signing people up to join Marxist societies at their universities. In 2013 student supporters of Socialist Appeal decided to establish the Marxist Student Federation – a network of university Marxist societies that had been developing for several years. The Federation, and Read more…
The Print, the student newspaper of Queen Mary, University of London, published a comment column attacking Jeremy Corbyn for his past comments in defence of the Bolivarian revolution in Venezuela, in its issue dated Wednesday 20 September. The column is light on facts, figures, and arguments – it’s mostly just Read more…
Hillary Clinton, the supposed advocate for “children’s human rights around the world”, will soon be awarded an honorary doctorate by Swansea University, and shamefully have the Law School named after her. Many students are concerned by this development – what does she really represent? If one scratches the surface of Read more…
Three Marxist Student Federation and Socialist Appeal supporters attended a rally in support of the Catalan independence referendum on Thursday 27 September along with around thirty workers and youth from Spain, Catalonia and Britain. Standing in the shadow of the Spanish embassy, a fighting mood was on show, with speakers Read more…
Precarious employees of all stripes took to the streets yesterday in protest at the exploitative practices of the so-called gig economy. The event, hosted by the Independent Workers’ Union of Great Britain (IWGB), was billed as Britain’s “first ever march against precarious labour.” The demo coincided with a court appeal Read more…
For me, I only really became aware of politics in 2008, when the news became filled with a terrible crisis, people were in tears, news anchors in shock, experts in panic. People on the news had lost everything and arbitrary numbers appeared on screen with big downward signs. Unlike other Read more…
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