Younger people are being pushed into political activity because of the horrors of capitalism. From the Youth Strike 4 Climate movement to the current A Level fiasco, we are seeing crisis after crisis for school students. Young people are suffering under the pressure of capitalist life. The system cannot offer anything to these young people. Read more about what has been happening to school students, and fight back with us!
Schools in England are reopening today. The mood amongst teachers, students, and parents is one of unease and anxiety. Rather than opening in the knowledge that adequate safety measures are in place to protect schools and communities, many are expecting school closures in the coming weeks, as the ‘R-rate’ Read more…
School students are facing a bleak future as a result of this crisis. The switch to online learning has already exposed the lie that we are all in this together. Those from rich families can access the best tutors and resources online. They don’t have to worry about sharing Read more…
The #YouthStrike4Climate is a global movement with radical implications. The strikes and demos have been militant, largely spontaneous and massive in size. On 15th March 1.4 million students went on strike in 129 countries. But the movement has to begin thinking beyond these latest strikes if its aims are to Read more…
On Friday 15th February, school students came out onto the streets in their thousands across the country in a call to action over the climate crisis. In Sheffield, hundreds came out on strike at the Town Hall and spoke about why they were there. As expected, there was a Read more…
110 Marxists from all over Britain met in London, on Saturday 16th Feb, discussing the nature of work under capitalism, the history and role of Marxists in the labour movement and how to concretely prepare for the fight for socialism. Just one day after the historic school student strike, Read more…
The private tuition industry’s profits are soaring as Tory cuts continue to decimate the education system. Parents are having to fill the gap in education left by inadequate funding, academisation, and more ‘rigorous’ examinations. Children in Tory Britain are being left behind in the pursuit of profit. The private tuition Read more…
The treatment of secondary school teachers is frankly appalling. It appears that underpaying them isn’t enough, as my school has gone as far to actually refuse to pay them for overtime labour. By forcing them to sign contracts that state that overtime labour is “voluntary” in a state school is Read more…
On Thursday 6 December, high school students demonstrated outside a school in Mantes-la-Jolie, west of Paris. After a demonstration to protest the new reforms to the exam system, the students were brutally arrested by police officers. Shocking images of the arrest have been circulating on social media. Police officers, armed Read more…
Last week, chancellor Philip Hammond published the Budget for the coming year. In spite of claims that ‘austerity is ending’, recent events have clearly proven otherwise. One of the Budget’s most controversial elements was a promise of £400 million to schools so that they could buy ‘little extras’. Understandably, Read more…
Prevent is one of the four strands of the government’s counter-terrorism strategy, ‘Contest’, created by the Labour government in 2003, and later widened in 2011. It is farcically described as “a community safeguarding programme” to stop people becoming involved in terrorism. This hinges on a system of reports from ‘community Read more…
Over the last week, hundreds of workers at colleges across the country have been on strike, demanding a meaningful increase to their currently stagnant pay. After years of failed negotiations with the Association of Colleges (AoC), Further Education (FE) staff have escalated their struggle for a decent income. In a Read more…
Cleaners who work in six different schools in Hackney, London have been refused holiday pay at the legal rate. These 42 school cleaners are already some of the lowest paid workers, and yet their employer has not only refused to pay proper holiday pay, but has also refused to discuss Read more…