On September 26 2014, a bus carrying students from the Normal Rural de Ayotzinapa Teacher Training School was stopped by the local police in Iguala, Guerrero. Without prior warning the police opened fire killing six students on the spot. The police, with the collaboration of notorious drug gang Guerreros Unidos then kidnapped Read more…
The fight for equality and an end to oppression is too important for confused ideas and fashionable posturing. In the Democratic Republic of Congo 1,152 women are raped every day – equivalent to 48 every hour (American Journal of Public Health), and 40% of women in the east of the Read more…
Dear Adrian Smith, I am writing to express my support for the Independent Workers’ Union of Great Britain’s (IWGB) “Back in House” campaign. I urge you to agree to their demands that outsourced workers – including cleaners, post room workers, security officers, receptionists and porters – be made in-house, that the university implement Read more…
Earlier this year, global accountancy and consulting firm PwC published an analysis which concluded that almost 40% of US jobs could be lost to automation in the next 15 years. The figures for elsewhere in the world were equally staggering; 35% in Germany, 30% in Britain, and 21% in Japan. Read more…
Marxist students in Edinburgh and Glasgow got the term off to a great start last week with stalls at the freshers fairs and interesting meetings of the Marxist societies. Around 50 new people signed up to join the Revolution society in Edinburgh, and there were ten new faces at our Read more…
Last week it was reported that the Vice-Chancellor of the University of Bath lives a life of extreme luxury. She earns £451,000 per year and is the highest paid Vice-Chancellor in the country. She lives for free in a five-bedroom Georgian apartment, provided by the university, where the university pays Read more…
A Sutton Trust study published last week has shown that 48% of 11-16 year olds in London have had private tuition in addition to their regular schooling. This is the unacceptable reality of inequality in Britain, and especially London today. Pupils with parents rich enough to pay for extra tuition Read more…
For as long as I can remember I’ve felt strongly about inequality and injustice, neither of which my parents tried to hide from me, and as a result I take seriously the repercussions of capitalist society and especially of climate change. It’s not enough just to recognise the problem – Read more…
In a recent speech, the Vice Chancellor of Oxford University accused the ‘mendacious media’ and ‘tawdry politicians’ of trying to tarnish the reputation of the higher education sector by pointing out the hypocrisy of her pay rises. Of course, it was a disaster of a speech all round, with the Read more…
Tory politician, potential new Tory party leader, and arch-reactionary Jacob Rees-Mogg is opposed to abortion under all circumstances and with no exceptions. It’s mind-blowing that, almost 100 years after the USSR became the first country in the world to fully legalize abortion in 1920, this is still a topic at Read more…
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