As much as I look forward to tucking into inadvisable quantities of chocolate eggs and bunnies this Easter, there is nothing more stomach-churning than the exploitative and imperialist practices of the confectionary industry. Crack the yummy surface and you’ll find a gooey core of brutality underlying the history of the Read more…
In this video from the LSEsu Marxist Society, Jorge Martin – editor of the Marxist magazine America Socialista and secretary of the Hands Off Venezuela campaign – discusses the political developments in Latin America over the last two decades. Jorge explains the factors that lay behind the Bolivarian Revolution and Read more…
The board game Monopoly, which the majority of readers will have played at some point in their life, was created by Elizabeth Magie in 1903. It was designed to express the ideas of the political economist Henry George, an American anti-monopolist who put forward the idea of a land value Read more…
The article below is a translation of an article that originally appeared on the website of the Brazilian Marxists – Esquerda Marxista It’s already 2017. But June 2013 was a landmark in the debates about what the involvement of a young person in politics should be. When we say ‘young Read more…
On 17 February the Progressive Youth Alliance (PYA) organised its city convention of Multan at the Multan Tea House hall. More than 200 students from various colleges and universities of Multan participated in this meeting. Representatives from various educational institutes of other cities also came to witness this important meeting. Read more…
£24,000. This is how much you may be required to pay for one year of university education in the UK if you’re international student. Exorbitant tuition fees are a symptom of what has been done to universities over the past 30 years. Institutions of higher education, once considered to be Read more…
In advance of our conference last weekend we received messages of greeting and solidarity from all over the world. Below is the text of those messages. ———- Comrades, The Swedish Marxist Students wish to extend our revolutionary fraternal greetings to your conference this weekend. With the onslaught against workers and youth, Read more…
The recent actions of the administration of the American University of Cairo represent an direct assault on the student body. The sudden decision to raise tuition fees by 40% will severely affect the students, many of whom would have to chose between leaving their studies or become heavily indebted. The Read more…
There’s an old Chinese curse which roughly translates into English as “May you live in interesting times” and it certainly seems that in recent months these words do make for a particularly painful curse. It seemed laughable this time last year that there was any chance of a Donald Trump Read more…
Donald Trump’s victory in the US presidential elections has delivered the biggest political upset in history; a political earthquake that has shattered the entire global Establishment, making Brexit look like a minor tremor in comparison. In reality, however, Trump is not the problem, but a symptom of a more general Read more…
Around the world, millions of people are waiting nervously for the upcoming presidential election in the United States on November 8th. Will Hillary Clinton or Donald Trump become the most powerful person in the free world? Comedians and economist alike foretell of impending political catastrophe, social ruin, and the fall Read more…
In 2015 the ruling class of the Republic of South Africa promised to the Fees Must Fall movement that there would be no more rises in tuition fees. As we know now – they’ve simply lied. Since the very beginning of the rises they didn’t shy away from openly admitting Read more…
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