JUSTICE FOR RASH – 20 year old killed by police in Dalston
A 20-year old black man died after being thrown to the ground and left unable to breathe by police on Kingsland Road in Dalston, London on Saturday. The whole incident has been captured on CCTV in the shop into which the man ran, trying to escape the police. The footage shows the man, Rashan Charles, struggling to draw breath as he is held on the floor by police. He apparently swallowed something Read more…
‘Why does no-one like me?’ wonders young Tory
Over the weekend the Independent published this article by a “young free-marketeer” complaining that too many young people support socialism and, as someone who presumably enjoys seeing poor people having their benefits cut and the NHS being driven into the dirt, she’s feeling a bit left out. Young people like me, who don’t support Labour, have become a minority. As a young free-marketeer, I find the glorification of communist forces amongst my Read more…
UCL rent strikers win £1.5 million – SAM TOLLITT, UCLU MARXISTS
This July, the ‘Cut the Rent’ campaign at University College London (UCL) announced that students had secured major concessions from management for university accommodation rents. This follows a five month long rent strike in which 200 students living at UCL halls of residence withheld rents ranging from £156 to £276 a week. Students have won a £600,000 pledge for accommodation bursaries for the 2017/2018 academic year, with a further pledge for the Read more…
Marxist camp celebrating the centenary of the Russian Revolution – SHARON MAYREN PADILLA in Mexico
On 8-9 July, the comrades of Juventudes Marxistas (Marxist Youth) and Izquierda Socialista (Socialist Left) organised a camp to celebrate the centenary of the Russian Revolution of 1917, an historic event which showed the potential of the working class to take power, eradicate oppression and build an alternative to capitalist society. The October revolution, and the formation and development of the Bolshevik party, provide timeless lessons that are worthy of discussion so Read more…
Students and staff suffer as Osborne gets into bed with Manchester uni
The University of Manchester (UoM) plans to cut 171 jobs, including those of 140 academic staff (leaving up to 1000 staff uncertain about their future) and Manchester Metropolitan University (MMU) plans the closure of their Crew Campus (leading to a further 160 job losses). The staff cuts will affect the faculties of arts, biology, medicine, and business. When defending these cuts, the university blames Brexit and the higher education bill. The university’s Read more…
The BBC is biased – JED BIRCH
The head of BBC Westminster has just gone to work for Theresa May. Another door revolves in the corridors of power. Never listen to BS about how the BBC is unbiased – it’s no more so than Gideon Osborne’s Evening Standard. There is no objectivity, only whose side are you on, and when an organisation’s leaders are all but unanimously drawn from the privileged percentiles, it should shock us all but surprise nobody Read more…
