The article below is a translation of an article that originally appeared on the website of the Brazilian Marxists – Esquerda Marxista It’s already 2017. But June 2013 was a landmark in the debates about what the involvement of a young person in politics should be. When we say ‘young person’, we mean it in a general sense, not just the revolutionary youth already determined to overthrow the system and create new Read more…
I work on a zero-hours contract in the NHS. This means that when I get sick or have to take time off for other reasons I don’t get paid or looked after by my employer. This poses serious risks for the health, both mental and physical, of me and my colleagues. Loads of the people I work with are single mothers and people who struggle to make ends meet. We take these Read more…
On 17 February the Progressive Youth Alliance (PYA) organised its city convention of Multan at the Multan Tea House hall. More than 200 students from various colleges and universities of Multan participated in this meeting. Representatives from various educational institutes of other cities also came to witness this important meeting. Just one day before the meeting a suicide bomb exploded during a protest in front of Punjab Assembly in Lahore, killing more Read more…
£24,000. This is how much you may be required to pay for one year of university education in the UK if you’re international student. Exorbitant tuition fees are a symptom of what has been done to universities over the past 30 years. Institutions of higher education, once considered to be sacrosanct temples of knowledge, gradually have become more and more commercialised. Universities have become nothing more than businesses, led by boards of Read more…
As is now common for so many, after spending three years at university and gaining a debt of almost £40,000, the only work I have been able to find is in a local bar on a zero-hours contract. Marx said that capitalist competition is three-sided. He used the example of a battle between two armies, buyers and sellers, each of whom also fight amongst themselves. Whichever ‘army’ fights least amongst themselves will Read more…
The Grunwick strike exhibition beautifully marks the 40th anniversary of when Jayaben Desai, a middle-aged Gujarati woman who was a migrant from Tanzania, led a walk out from the Grunwick Film Processing Laboratory in Willesden in 1976. As you enter the exhibition, you are welcomed with sheets hanging down from the ceiling with images of the strikers standing-off against six-foot policemen. The walls are littered with revolutionary art calling for solidarity amongst Read more…
The morning of February 17th 2017 saw two headlines concerning the Leeds University Union executive (LUU exec) in the local student press. The first bemoaned the year on year decline in turnout for the elections that see students run for sabbatical positions as union officers in the LUU exec (http://www.thegryphon.co.uk/2017/02/17/leadership-race-turnout-decreases/). This comes at the end of an election week where the Union has offered the chance to win prizes – including £50 Read more…
In advance of our conference last weekend we received messages of greeting and solidarity from all over the world. Below is the text of those messages. ———- Comrades, The Swedish Marxist Students wish to extend our revolutionary fraternal greetings to your conference this weekend. With the onslaught against workers and youth, brought upon us by this rotting system, our struggle has never been more necessary – our ideas never more relevant. Any young Read more…
Last Saturday, 11th February, around 100 students and young workers from at least 20 schools, colleges, and universities across the country gathered in London for the annual national conference of the Marxist Student Federation (MSF), hosted by the UCLU Marxist Society. The number of attendees not only demonstrated the growing strength of the MSF and the attraction of revolutionary ideas, but was also a fitting figure to celebrate the 100th anniversary of Read more…
Below is the final, full agenda for the national conference of the Marxist Student Federation. Join us tomorrow from 10:30 at UCL, Cruciform B304-LT1 to celebrate the centenary of the Russian Revolution! We’ll be asking all participants for a £5 contribution on the door to the running costs of the conference. A small price to pay to help build the forces of Marxism in Britain! 10:30-11:00 Registration 11:00-13:00 In Defence of Read more…
As part of our preparation for the In Defence of Lenin conference, we republish this article by Ted Sprague from 2010. Much has been said about the exploits of Lenin as the leader of Bolshevik and the October Revolution. His accomplishment as an individual is of no equal in the history of human civilization. There is almost no need to repeat what has been said about his life as a Marxist by Read more…
In early December last year at Warwick University, a group of student activists cut through the winter lethargy with an occupation of the Slate, a newly-built £5.3m conference building. Organised by the student activist group Warwick for Free Education, the occupation pushed for three demands to be met by the university’s management. The first demand was that Warwick University opt out of the Teaching Excellence Framework (TEF), the Conservative government’s most Read more…
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