The Marxist Student Federation (MSF) now represents the strongest and most active student Marxists in Britain. This presents us with an important lesson, to produce and educate new Marxists up and down the country. Here is a report showing the strength of our first few weeks on campus this year!
We have now hit every freshers’ fair we could, spoken to thousands of people about the ideas of Marxism and shown them how to fight against capitalism. This has been a highly inspiring period for us. We have seen the thirst for communist ideas which exists amongst students.
The previous week of #CommunismOnCampus has been huge for us! We intervened in 20 freshers’ fairs. From Durham to Southampton and Loughborough to Manchester Metropolitan, we signed up hundreds of students to the Marxist Societies.
Last weekend, young comrades from across the Marxist Student Federation gathered for an inspiring summer school on the life and ideas of Lenin. Marxism is on the march. There has never been a better time to join the struggle for socialism.
Marxist Societies across the country actively participated in the latest UCU strike action in March.
And we’re off, with the second day of strike action. Our comrades on the pickets have told us the mood is still energetic and workers and students are very angry. The success of the first day has spurred on the strikers. In Glasgow, our comrades were literally beating the drum Read more…
Yesterday we were accosted by a couple of far-right people at our stall on the Glasgow uni campus. They accused us of being part of a ‘Jewish conspiracy’ and singled out one of our comrades for being blonde-haired and blue-eyed, saying that she did not belong in our group. Read more…
The Glasgow University Rector elections attracted media attention this year, with the nomination of “alt-right” personality Milo Yiannopoulos. The racist, sexist, transphobic and all-things-reactionary Trump supporter drew criticism as he casually insulted students, staff and called for the Muslim society to be banned. In spite of endorsing this ban Read more…
Rachel from the Glasgow Marxists reports on the freshers’ fair and the society’s first meeting of the term: “First day of Glasgow freshers’ fair today! We had 7 society members manning the stalls. In total we signed up around 100 people who are interested in the society. We also sold £12 of Read more…