As the situation worsens, we are working longer hours for less pay. This is all why the richest get richer. Make no mistake, the richest are not suffering under this crisis. The burden is being put on the working class. By uniting, coming together and fighting against the system, we can win. Join us and fight. Read more about the suffering for worker’s under the crisis.
Unison members in higher education at 22 universities are staging stikes over pay. At the same time, lecturers in the UCU are balloting for action. The scene is set for united struggle by workers and students on campuses across the country.
The Marxist Student Federation has always stood with workers in struggle. We were proud to support UCU when they took strike action. Now members of UNISON are having to prepare to strike against a pathetic pay offer from the university employers.
Support staff at Leeds University, organised in Unison, are on strike this week, fighting for decent pay. This is one of many struggles taking place on UK campuses, as workers and students mobilise against the marketisation of education. After 12 years of below-inflation pay, higher education (HE) staff organised in Read more…
The struggle to prevent Holland Park School from joining a giant academy trust is escalating, with management and a hostile press attempting to sow confusion, and teachers set to strike. Parents, students, and staff must unite and fight.
A motion submitted by the John Maclean Society (JMS) to Edinburgh University Student Association (EUSA) calling for a concrete support for current and future UCU strikes has passed! The motion, which was in response to vague EUSA statements in response to UCU industrial action, called primarily for the student union Read more…
On March 2nd, comrades of the University of Birmingham Marxist Society held a student strike rally with the help of the local UCU. After hearing from a range of student groups and labour movement speakers, such as the Coventry bin strikers and Unison, a Marxist Society member spoke, addressing the Read more…
The NUS (National Union of Students) called for a walkout on 2 March coinciding with the end of the latest round of UCU strikes. There were four demands for the walkout: full funding for education, accessible education, lifelong education, and democracy in the education system. We fully support these demands. Read more…
At our Edinburgh John Mclean Society comrades have begun a petition to get the student assembly to act! Read their statement here and sign by heading to their instagram or our website! “Since last week (starting 14th Feb 2022), UCU staff at the University of Edinburgh have been on strike Read more…
As part of the national UCU strike, UCU London region organised a rally and demo starting at Tavistock Square on Tuesday afternoon. Over 400 UCU members and students gathered to protest for fair and equal pay, an end to pension robbery, manageable workloads, and call for the end of casualisation. Read more…
KCL Marxist Society organised to be on the UCU pickets every day this week. We believe that it is important to show the lecturers that they have student solidarity and to bring our political ideas to these strikes. We have been involved in teach outs, talking about revolutionary ideas. Lecturers Read more…
The last week has been extremely busy for the Leeds Marxist Society. We’ve been on the picket lines supporting lecturers and trying to build student solidarity with the 2nd March walkout. Here in Leeds, we have organised a demonstration on March 2nd to show University management that students are against Read more…
LSE (London School of Economics) Marxist Society has been out on the picket lines supporting UCU members. The Marxist Society spent the build up to the strike pushing the SU to actively support the striking workers. This resulted in us having a gazebo and hot drinks provided by the SU. Read more…