Theory and analysis

Marxist Students are bringing Bolshevism to Bristol

This year Marxist students in Bristol are bringing revolutionary politics to both the city’s universities and its labour movement with an exciting programme of meetings, film screenings, and other activities. Already this academic term, we have held a meeting titled Ten Days That Shook The World to celebrate the centenary of the Russian Revolution. Ben Gliniecki, national organiser of the Marxist Student Federation, spoke at the meeting and left us inspired to defend Read more…

By Marxist Student, ago

Vote Marxist: why I’m standing

On 24 October Liverpool Marxist Society met and voted to endorse Gilly Singh as the Marxist Candidate for the upcoming elections for delegates to NUS national conference from The Guild of Students at University of Liverpool. Below you will find a statement written by him on why he is running in this election. One of my flatmates recently got into a taxi, on their way to work, and noticed a university teaching Read more…

By Marxist Student, ago

Smash sexism with Marxism

The root cause of all forms of oppression is the division of society into classes. This oppression can take many forms. Alongside class oppression we find the oppression of one nation over another, racial oppression, and the oppression of women. Marxists must fight against oppression and discrimination in all its forms, while pointing out that only a radical transformation of society and the abolition of class oppression can create the conditions for Read more…

By Marxist Student, ago

Justice For Cleaners at KCL

On Thursday 19th October around 40 students met with cleaning staff and Unison reps to launch the campaign Kings College London Justice for Cleaners. Inspired by successful campaigns at LSE and SOAS, the campaign aims to bring KCL cleaning back ‘in house’ rather than being outsourced to Servest, and to win 5 key demands: Bring cleaning in house Union recognition Equal opportunity of access to overtime Sick pay, maternity pay, holiday pay Read more…

By Marxist Student, ago

Marxist students retrace Marx’s steps in London

Last Saturday, I and a few dozen other students from universities across the city gathered in the University College London main quad in preparation for a tour round the local area. These kind of events are common at the beginning of the academic year, providing new students with an opportunity to get their bearings. On this walk, however, we weren’t going to see local tourist spots or the best pubs; we were going Read more…

By Marxist Student, ago

President of SOAS Marxists elected as delegate to NUS conference

After a great campaign across campus and on social media Fiona Lali, President of the SOAS Marxist society, has been elected to represent SOAS students at the national conference of the National Union of Students (NUS) later in the year. Fiona ran her campaign on an openly Marxist manifesto, calling for free education, full living grants for all students, the abolition of student rent, opposition to discriminatory legislation like Prevent and all Read more…

By Marxist Student, ago

Is divestment the best way to tackle climate change?

Cambridge University invests more than £370 million in fossil fuels and has close ties with oil and energy companies. Between 2009 and 2014, the university received £15.8 million in funding from carbon-intensive companies. In 2000, BP gave the university £22 million to establish a research centre. The vast sums of money flowing in both directions pollutes both the environment and education. So in response a number of academics and campaign groups, under Read more…

By Marxist Student, ago

The October Revolution Festival – schedule and taster videos

This weekend Marxist students will be at the October Revolution festival in central London for a celebration of Marxist ideas 100 years after the Russian Revolution. See below for some taster videos for a few of the sessions at the festival. The full agenda is below. See you at the weekend! BUY YOUR TICKET HERE: http://www.socialist.net/october-revolution-festival-starts-in-one-week-book-now.htm HOW DOES CAPITALISM WORK? – MARX’S CAPITAL 150 YEARS ON   UBI AND AUTOMATION: UTOPIA OR NIGHTMARE Read more…

By Marxist Student, ago

In Defence of Communism: Sheffield Marxists reply to slurs

Mr Rowland’s article ‘Das Krapital’ of 04/10/17 rings with the familiar unpleasant cynicism of the hard Right, as well as peddling some of the most tired, tepid and easily assailable criticisms of socialism to ever grace a page. Given its utterly paltry content, I’m simply going to deal with his most bizarre assertion, the destruction of which will more or less answer his other points. In response to the claim that socialism Read more…

By Marxist Student, ago

This Saturday – Marx walk around London!

Karl Marx spent many years living and working in London. He spent part of that time living in Dean Street in Soho, just up the road from a flat in Chinatown that was once occupied by Frederick Engels. The First International, Marx’s revolutionary organisation, had its HQ in Soho. This is where Marx debated Bakunin and the historic split between Marxist and anarchist ideas and methods took place. It was in the Read more…

By Marxist Student, ago

Scottish Marxists rally for Catalonia

Last weekend the Glasgow Marxists made our way across to Edinburgh to protest the disgusting treatment by the Spanish authorities of Catalans trying to express their basic democratic right to vote. We had all heard about the intimidation that had been going on before the referendum, and as Sunday morning unfolded we were faced with more and more videos of police violence against unarmed protesters and civilians, as well as scenes of Read more…

By Marxist Student, ago

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