In preparation for the national conference of the Marxist Student Federation, where we’ll be discussing the life and legacy of Lenin, we republish this article from 1970 by Alan Woods. In the last active period of his life, Lenin was chiefly absorbed by the problems of the Soviet economy Read more…
In the past year, the Rent Strike Collective has gained momentum and popularity across the UK, with even the NUS supporting student rent strikes, along with the Radical Housing Network. The group organised a “weekender” in September 2016 to train new students in how to organise a rent strike, gain Read more…
The Marxist Student Federation offers its solidarity with Unison comrades at King’s College London, who have just voted overwhelmingly for strike action against their private-sector employers, Servest. Much of the university’s non-academic workforce has been privatised and sold off to parasitical firms like Servest, who abuse their workforces with impunity Read more…
In celebration of the centenary of the Russian Revolution and as part of our build up for the conference of the Marxist Student Federation next month we’re republishing here an article from 2014 by Rob Sewell of the International Marxist Tendency. Ninety years ago, on 21st January 1924, Vladimir Lenin, Read more…
This year the fourth national conference of the Marxist Student Federation, taking place at UCL (Cruciform Building B304 – LT1) on 11 February, will be a Bolshevik celebration of the life and ideas of Vladimir Lenin, 100 years since the February Revolution in Russia kicked off events that would lead, a Read more…
In her Christmas day speech, the Queen encouraged those in need of ‘strength and courage’ to ‘take a deep breath’ when ‘her country’ is broken by the austerity she advocated. We have no need of her ‘majesty’s’ condescension. What does she know of the struggle that many people are going through Read more…
The National Union of Students (NUS) is sharply divided. The election of Malia Bouattia as NUS President at the last national conference of the union was heralded as a victory for the “Left”. The NUS has since held a joint demo with the UCU union and come out in support Read more…
A demo was held at UCL on Tuesday to protest the government’s impending Higher Education reforms. Under the slogan “Grants not debt”, a group of students, union officials, and activists voiced their discontent across the campus with the direction in which our university system is heading. The ‘Teaching Excellence Read more…
Recent elections at Durham University resulted in a victory for Tom Harwood, a radical right-winger, as one of four delegates to NUS Conference next year. His campaign was built on parodying and mocking the politics of the Left, describing them as “irrelevant, grandstanding, self-aggrandizing, self-defeating” and pledging to singlehandedly Read more…
In the early hours of Friday morning Warwick For Free Education took control of Warwick University’s new £5.3 million Slate building in protest against further attacks on both students and staff by the University. The three key demands are: For the university to oppose the Teaching Excellence Framework (TEF), which Read more…
Four million households in Britain are so cold and damp that it damages the quality of life and standard of living of the people who live in them. We’re in this situation because wages are stagnating while the monolithic utility companies continue to put energy prices up. This is happening Read more…
Dozens of UNISON comrades were out in force in front of King’s College London on Friday with placards and banners to protest the abuse and exploitation of cleaning staff at the university. Cleaners at King’s College London have just received the worst ever Christmas present: individual letters warning that Read more…
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