Staff, students, and parents at Holland Park School in London are organising to oppose the proposed takeover by a giant academy trust. To defend education, the labour movement must fight to end academisation, and put workers in control.
Years of chronic underfunding – alongside the pandemic – have led to a crisis in the country’s schools. Tory proposals offer no solution. To defend education, we must fight academisation and privatisation, and tackle the problem at its root.
According to the Tories’ new plan for university education, applicants who don’t pass GCSE English and Maths will no longer be eligible for student loans. This disgraceful policy will effectively block off a quarter of young people from getting into university. Not only will many university students have to shoulder Read more…
Protests have erupted across London in solidarity with Child Q – yet another victim of police racism, misogyny, and violence. It is clear that the Met Police are rotten to core. To end this oppression and repression, we need to end capitalism. Twice over the last week, on Friday 18 Read more…
Vladimir Putin shocked the world yesterday morning by launching a full-scale invasion of Ukraine. Despite many ‘strong’ words, Western leaders have been exposed as impotent. Only revolutionary class struggle can end the horrors of capitalism and war. So, it has started. Russian forces have unleashed a massive attack on Ukraine. Read more…
The latest wave of industrial action on campuses begins today, with UCU members out on strike once again in the struggle for decent pensions, pay, and conditions. It is vital that workers and students unite and fight to defend education. The Universities and College Union (UCU) is striking once again Read more…
The NUS has called for a national student walkout on 2 March. And university lecturers are set to take further strike action this term. Activists must begin building for these immediately, to mobilise a mass movement to defend education. The National Union of Students (NUS) has called for a nationwide Read more…
Irish activists Orla and Zac are facing trial – and possible severe punishment – this week for protesting against government inaction over climate change.
Teachers at Newham Sixth Form college in east London are continuing their strike against overwork, management bullying, and academisation. Meanwhile, students are mobilising in support of staff. We must build the fightback to defend education. For over four weeks now, National Education Union (NEU) members have been on strike at Read more…
We encourage all Marxist Societies across the country to pass this motion. Students and workers: unite and fight!
The National Union of Students (NUS) has called for a nationwide day of action this term, on 2 March, involving a student walkout at universities across the country, and a mass demonstration in central London. Students have faced a year of lockdowns, mental health crises, reckless decisions by university management, Read more…
Data published by the Scottish government shows that in 2019-2020, before the COVID-19 pandemic, over 260,000 Scottish children lived in poverty. That is 26% of Scottish children, higher than the European average. While these figures are lower than the UK average of 30%, they confirm a trend of rising child Read more…