On 13 July the Marxist Student Federation will be joining the protests against Trump’s visit to the UK. See our Facebook event here and get in touch if you’d like to join us! The images of children in distress thanks to Trump’s immigration policies are rightly mobilising people in their tens of thousands to protest his visit to the UK on 13 July. The sickening images of children separated from their Read more…
The Marxist Student Federation will be at the Pride parade on Saturday 7 July in London. If you’d like to join us see here for the Facebook event, or contact us on contact@marxiststudent.com The big names at Pride this year feature Barclays, Tesco, Delta, AA and NBC. Ironic – distasteful – tragic. Every year we see an increase in commercialisation of Pride. Having promoted LGBT+ oppression for centuries, the Establishment now Read more…
It was announced last week that Prof Koen Lamberts will become the University of Sheffield’s new Vice-Chancellor. Of course, the decision was made without the involvement of workers or students. Lamberts is one of many senior careerists within higher education who slinks from one cushy position to another. During Lamberts’ time as Deputy VC at the University of Warwick he oversaw a £100m deal with Jaguar Land Rover and Tata Motors Read more…
Like most young people of my generation, the first political event I was really aware of, at the age of nine, was the 2008 financial crash. The word “crisis” seemed to be everywhere, looming like a spectre over the news and the conversations my parents had. The crisis infected every aspect of my life, and it seemed to be all anyone talked about. Even though, at that age, I couldn’t grasp Read more…
All my life I have always said that in adulthood I want to help improve the world. Most of my teenage years were spent dreaming of going into wildlife conservation to defend animals against the environmental destruction caused by humans. Now I still have that same goal, but I am going to achieve that by protecting the planet and all its inhabitants from capitalism. Throughout my childhood I experienced and witnessed hard Read more…
On 9 June 2018 several thousand supporters of the far-right figure Tommy Robinson marched in London. They dwarfed the counter-protest that had been called against them. For a full analysis of that event see here. On 14 July 2018 another far-right demonstration is being planned. This time we must be prepared to fight back properly. In East London, two members of the Queen Mary Marxist society recently attended a meeting that had Read more…
Series 2 of Britain’s Forgotten Men has been aired recently on BBC3 and is a rare account of the harsh realities of the lives of working-class people around the Manchester area. It’s unusual for the BBC to focus a documentary on working-class communities and their plight as a result of the last ten years of economic crisis and austerity. A disproportionate amount of BBC programming often has no connection to the lives Read more…
Stressed out teachers are leaving the profession in droves. An overhaul of GCSEs has led many students to feel suicidal. And declining conditions are hitting university staff. The British education system is in crisis left, right and centre. Young people are bearing the brunt of this crisis with ever-mounting debts from maintenance and tuition fees, a lack of career prospects and the worst outcomes and highest debts falling on the shoulders of Read more…
On 13th July, Theresa May will welcome Donald Trump to Britain. Trump is anti-working class, a racist, a sexist and a bigot, and the Tories are desperate to partner with him! Whilst May grovels at his feet in the hope of a trade deal after Brexit, millions of people are suffering as a result of his xenophobic policies. As Marxists we understand how Trump came to power and how we must defeat Read more…
The endeavour to establish a brand new Marxist society at Nottingham University has been greeted with enthusiasm from many students, eager to have a society to discuss Marxist ideas and organise Marxist students. At least twenty-five students have already signed up to join the society, the number required to set it up, and we recently submitted our application to the societies council to be formally accepted as an official university society. The Marxist Read more…
Even by the dismal standards of the Conservative Party, the actions of Christchurch MP, Sir Christopher Chope, reached a new low the other day. Chope managed to block a proposed bill to make upskirting (the act of taking unsolicited pictures up women’s skirts) illegal. Chope claimed that he objected not to the content of the bill itself, but to it not having been properly debated in parliament. Due to the rules of Read more…
Earlier this month it was reported that a Tory MP stated publicly that “black people…are more likely to be murderers”. This is the kind of racist filth that runs Britain today. Tory MP Philip Davies, who has repeatedly derailed legislation to protect victims of domestic violence and recently blocked a law against upskirting, argued that black people should be stopped and searched more often because they are more likely to commit crime. Read more…
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