A General Election is coming. We need to be ready. We want Corbyn to power on a socialist programme. #MarxistStudents can play a big role in this election. The student vote transformed the 2017 General Election. Students turned Canterbury red where the Tories had the seat for 100 years. We must do this again, in
Boris Johnson has wormed his way into No 10. He has been voted in by 160,000 of the most right wing reactionary people in the country, the majority of whom are over 55 years of age and believe that Islam is “a threat to the British way of life” and “Trump would be a good British Prime
UCL Unison have recently launched a campaign to bring outsourced cleaning, catering and security staff back in house under the same conditions as staff directly employed by UCL, under the slogan #BringThemIn. The campaign has also received support from UCL Labour Society. This comes as a welcome development following efforts from the IWGB (Independent Workers
After successes at the London School of Economics (LSE), Kings College London (KCL), the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS) and others, outsourced workers at London universities are proving that determined and militant campaigns get results. Strike action, demonstrations, and student solidarity have forced university management to agree to end outsourcing and bring workers
Last week NUS delegate election campaigns were held in Manchester Metropolitan University and Leeds University. Marxist students ran on a bold socialist programme in both universities and were successfully elected. These Marxist delegates from MMU and Leeds will join delegates from SOAS, UCL, UEA, Swansea, and Sheffield at the NUS conference in Glasgow in April
This year’s NUS Conference will take place on 8-11 April 2019 in Glasgow. It will play host to more Marxist student delegates than ever before, including from UCL, SOAS, Swansea, UEA and Sheffield, with many more elections still to take place. The conference is set to deal with the £3 million deficit in the NUS
On 20th November, Marxist student and NUS delegate Nico Navarro Padrón passed a motion through SOAS Union’s General Meeting to support the struggles of precarious workers. The motion, unanimously accepted by the UGM, will now be brought to the NUS conference in April next year. As Marxists, we are part of the struggle of
Last year the University of Nottingham Living Wage Campaign, an alliance of trade unions, student societies and local campaigning groups, managed to get the University to agree to pay the living wage, resulting in a pay increase for 400 staff. This victory has been undercut however as it has emerged through discussions with cleaning
Precarious employment has become a typical feature of our lives under capitalism. More and more, workers are being forced to accept low pay, poor working conditions and minimal rights as standard. Over 10 million people in Britain are currently considered to be in precarious work. This includes zero hours contracts, temporary employment, underemployment or
Earlier this week we reported on Marxist student comrades winning NUS elections at UEA, SOAS and Sheffield University. We are pleased to report that Josh, Erin, Lily and Nico will be joined by Nick and Dora from UCL at the NUS Conference in Glasgow in April! Nick Oung, Dora Dimitrova and Edgar Sait-Jones ran
Across the country Marxist Students have been running campaigns to be elected as delegates to the national conference of the National Union of Students (NUS) which will be taking place in Glasgow in April 2019. We started off in the University of East Anglia where three comrades ran on a strong socialist program intent
Introduction There is something seriously wrong with the world. In a time when there has never been more wealth on the planet, we are going to inherit a society from our parents in which our standard of living will be far worse than theirs. We are going to have to work until we are