In the wake of the mass demonstrations that swept Brazil in 2013, a campaign called Publico, Gratuito e Para Todos: Transporte, Saude, Educacao! Abaixo a Repressao! (Public, Free and For All: Transport, Health and Education! Down with Repression!) was founded by Esquerda Marxista (Marxist Left), the Brazilian section of the International Marxist Tendency. Read more…
The UCLU Marxists hosted the Marxist Winter School this year, where Mexican Solidarity Campaign supporters came to speak on the Ayotzinapa movement in Mexico. Out of this came a postering campaign across our university, raising awareness over the issue among the students. The appeal this campaign had allowed us Read more…
This motion of solidarity with the protests over the 43 disappeared student teachers of Ayotzinapa Teaching School was proposed on 14th December at the AGM of London Young Labour by members of the Marxist Student Federation, as part of our ongoing campaign in solidarity with the disappeared students and the struggle of those Read more…
The resolution below was recently passed in the UCU branch of QMU. It took a bit of toing and froing between committee members but it struck quite a chord not only with shop stewards but also rank and file members. Its particularly relevant with UCU being a union for Read more…
The article below has been submitted to the Marxist Student Federation by two student activists at the Political Science University in Bordeaux. It details the increasing privatisation taking place at the university and the limited nature of the movement that has taken place against it thus far. The authors point Read more…
On September 26, a bus carrying students from the Normal Rural de Ayotzinapa Teacher Training School was stopped by the local police in Iguala, Guerrero. Without prior warning the police opened fire killing six students on the spot. The police, with the collaboration of notorious drug gang Guerreros Unidos then kidnapped Read more…
The motion below was passed by trainee teachers at Sheffield College in solidarity with the disappeared students in Mexico and in solidarity with the struggle of those demanding justice for the crimes of the Mexican state. —————————————————– Sheffield College Trainee Teachers Note: Mexico is in the middle of a Read more…
You can read here the resolution put together by Marxist students in Solidarity with the Mexican Students in Struggle, in the Instituto Politécnico Nacional and in Ayotzinapa. To be put forward to Student Unions of respective Universities by Marxist Societies and others in Solidarity with the Mexican Students. The Students’ Union Notes: Mexico is Read more…
The undersigned organisations join in the call by students from the Rural Normal of Ayotzinapa and the National People’s Assembly for a day of action on October 22 and we extend internationally. We appeal for the organisation of protest actions at Mexican embassies and consulates around the world that Read more…
Original article: http://www.marxist.com/2014-10-02-11-59-33.htm The march on 30th September was an overwhelming show of force by the students at IPN (National Polytechnic Institute), we saw a public display of the potential for a fighting movement with wide participation. We, proud, polytechnic students, carried our credentials to make it clear that this struggle Read more…
The statement below, in conjunction with the #TodosSomosAyotzinapa statement, is being discussed at Marxist societies up and down the country as well as what we can do to build solidarity with the IPN movement in Mexico. ———————————————————- The Marxist Student Federation, representing students at more than 20 universities in Britain, Read more…
The statement below is being proposed to Marxist societies up and down the country to express our solidarity with the missing Mexican students from the Ayotzinapa Teacher Training School. Marxist societies will be discussing this statement in conjunction with the #TodosSomosPolitecnio statement as well as practically how Marxist students in Britain Read more…
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