We went to the Freshers Fair at Hills Road on Wednesday where there were three of us on the stall. We had about four and a half hours in total to sign people up to our Marxist society. Our stall was very small but the Revolution newspaper in particular attracted people. Read more…
At UWE last week we managed to sign up over 100 people, run out of the 600 leaflets we’d printed, and sell out of the 30+ Revolution papers we had. There was loads of enthusiasm about the prospect of this new society, and people were really excited about the mix of Read more…
Really good response to our freshers fair stall at Queen Margaret University. 17 gave details to find out more (including two from SNP Students!). We have a meeting on Thursday introducing students to Marxism. Our aim is soon to get 10 people to sign up and 3 people to be Read more…
Many students at Edinburgh Napier freshers fair showed an interest in the ideas of Marxism yesterday. Ideas such as a National Education Service, free education, a living rent and price controls on food, beer, cider, spirits, toiletries and a fight for a socialist future the students need and deserve, all Read more…
We had our first Freshers activity today at Heriot Watt University, a campus uni on the outskirts of Edinburgh. The Fair was on from 12-4. Two comrades turned up just before 12 and set up the stall on the grass outside. We were approaching students asking if they “want to Read more…
As the start of the new university academic year gets closer Marxists all over the country are preparing all sorts of activities, from meetings to campaigns, on campus this term. Below are a selection of reports from some of the Marxist societies affiliated to the Marxist Student Federation. Glasgow University Read more…
The Tories are planning to cut funding for colleges that train apprentices by up to 50% next year, with the bulk of the cuts falling in the most deprived areas. The most popular apprenticeships for 16-18 year olds, in business administration and construction, are being cut by anywhere between 27% Read more…
We publish here a translation of a statement (the original is republished below) by our comrades in Brazil – Liberdade e Luta – following the impeachment of the Brazilian president and her replacement by Michel Temer. STATEMENT OF SOLIDARITY The impeachment has happened. Temer is taking over the presidency to continue to Read more…
As many of you will know this last week it was A-level results day, the day of the year when prospective students get results that determine in many ways their futures, will they be going to university? Will they will be straddled with a lifetime of student debt? Will university Read more…
Earlier this month student protests in Sao Paulo were interrupted by armed police. The Police opened fire on the marching students with rubber bullets and tear gas. The students had been protesting against recent education reforms. Geraldo Alckmin, governor of the state of Sao Paulo, is proposing to close 94 Read more…
Having secured for him his victory as Deputy Leader, Tom Watson has now warned everybody about the arm-twisting Trotskyist entryists in the Labour Party. Apparently the irony escaped him that the only other person in history to have complained about Trotskyist infiltration to this extent was Joseph Stalin. Yes, there Read more…
In August a teenage Deliveroo cyclist, Raven Morrello, was dragged off his bike, roughed-up and thrown in the back of a van by police in Manchester. He was riding his bicycle along a street when a police horse (why do the police have horses anyway??) got ‘spooked’ by the bike. Read more…
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