Labour Young Socialists held a London-wide rally yesterday evening, November 11, at which around 100 students and young workers assembled to discuss what left-wing youth should do now that Jeremy Corbyn is leader of the Labour Party. Unfortunately John McDonnell, who was due to address the rally, had to pull out at the last minute but sent a statement of support in which he raised the “huge opportunity for change within Read more…
Marxist students were out in force as part of the demonstration on Wednesday 4th November against tuition fees, against the scrapping of maintenance grants, and for free education. Marching behind a banner with the slogan “the system is broken – fight for revolution” and adorned with red flags, the MSF block was the most militant on the demonstration. We pointed out in our leaflets and in the pages of the Socialist Appeal Read more…
Staff at the University of Manchester will be balloted for strike action by the University and College Union (UCU) after bosses at the university disregarded employment procedure. Instead of waiting for the current review of redeployment procedure to be completed, the university issued 37 at risk of redundancy notices, leading the union to ballot for strike action. UCU members now have until the 20 November to vote in favour of action. Industrial Read more…
Matt Rider from the Marxist Student Federation has been elected as a delegate to the national conference of the National Union of Students from the University of Swansea. Matt’s manifesto is below. The MSF aims to win the NUS round to revolutionary socialist ideas that will fight the Tories and the rotten capitalist system they defend. That is what Ross will be going to the NUS conference to argue for. ——————————————————————————————– For Free Education: Read more…
The Equality and Human Rights Commision (EHRC), a non-governmental public body established in 2006 with the aim of promoting and enforcing equality legislation in the UK, has released a report claiming that over the past five years, the economic prospects of Britain’s youth population have reached an all-time low. The report, ‘Is Britain Fairer?’, indicated that those under 34 had suffered the sharpest decline with regard to pay and employment, had lost Read more…
It seems obvious to say that education is a social good. In a rational society, in which the interests of the vast majority are met, school and university investment would be planned and free education delivered to all who want it. But we are not living in that kind of society. Our lives are governed by the unelected 1% who plan their investments based on what’s profitable for them, not Read more…
Below is a resolution of the Marxist Student Federation which is being discussed in Marxist societies all over the country this week. As Marxist students fighting tuition fee rises, privatisations and attacks on our living standards, the struggle of the South African students is a great inspiration to us. Their struggle is our struggle. Workers of the world unite! On Friday the South African student movement won a great victory. After more than Read more…
Earlier this year an organisation called Select Property Group gave a massive £50,000 donation to the Conservative Party. One of this company’s main activities is building “luxury student developments” in places like Manchester, Liverpool, Exeter, Southampton and Bristol. The accommodation is rented out at between £200 and £230 per week. The business’s website makes assurances that “residences are always fully occupied and generating returns for investors”. They shamelessly explain that the Read more…
Students at Witswatersrand University, also known as Wits University in Johannesburg, South Africa, have taken strike action in response to the announcement that tuition fees will be increased by 10.5%, accommodation costs by 9%, and upfront registration fees by 6%. Students are rejecting the attempts by university management to justify these increases by saying that the cost of stationary imported from abroad has increased and that they are increasing the wages of Read more…
For Free Education: Defend Corbyn, Fight For Socialism! Education is a public good that should be free to all The NUS can do more to fight for free education An end to cuts and to the social gentrification of our university sector Jeremy Corbyn to power in 2020 on a socialist programme: we need free education! Higher education is facing a period of unprecedented crisis and capitalism is to blame. It is Read more…
The election of Jeremy Corbyn as leader of the Labour Party has transformed the face of politics in Britain. The question of socialism is no longer an abstract discussion. It is being posed concretely in discussions that are taking place up and down the country. What sort of programme should a Corbyn-led Labour Party adopt? What is the alternative to austerity? What is socialism? How we can fight for it today? Read more…
The unprecedented assault on education in Britain over the last five years, from increasing tuition fees to scrapping maintenance grants, constitutes the Tories forcing young people to pay for the deepest crisis of capitalism in history. The fight for our education and for our future is the fight against austerity of all shades, and ultimately it is a fight against capitalism. Marxist students will be joining the National Campaign Against Fees Read more…
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