On Thursday, 26th February, the UCLU Marxists held a public meeting to discuss the recent political situation in Greece. Titled “Greece: No Surrender,” the discussion featured a lead-off by Fred Weston, the editor of www.marxist.com. The lead-off focused on the recent election of Syriza to power and what this might mean for Greece in the upcoming months. Tsipras and his finance minister Varoufakis are currently working to rally support for their debt Read more…
English version here To jest odpowiedź w imieniu Federacji Studentów Marksistowskich na atak przeprowadzony przez państwo Polskie przeciwko protestującym pracownikom w Jastrzębiu w dniach 2. i 9. lutego, gdzie użyto przeciwko bezbronnym demonstrantom gazu łzawiącego, armatek wodnych i gumowej amunicji raniąc dwadzieścia osób. Jako międzynarodowy ruch robotniczy, który głęboko wierzy, że krzywda jednego człowieka jest krzywdą wszystkich, ale także zarazem jako socjaliści, związkowcy i młodzi aktywiści brytyjscy, w kraju gdzie mieszka Read more…
On Friday, 13 February, students occupied the Bungehuis at the University van Amsterdam (UvA). By the end of the first day of the occupation the movement grew in support with around 200 people participating in the occupation. It lasted 12 days and during this time they held several student activities such as lectures and movie nights within the Bungehuis, despite having no access to the internet for the duration, and gas being Read more…
PEGIDA’s debut on British soil fell flat on Saturday 28 February, with the counter-demonstration led by Newcastle Unites outnumbering the right-wing protest group over fifteen-to-one. The build up to PEGIDA’s first British rally was mired in administrative difficulties from the off. The movement’s leaders have recently come under fire, due to the exposure of a number of photographs which have severely compromised the “not racist, not anti-Islam” line that PEGIDA have tried Read more…
Polish translation here This is a response on behalf of the Marxist Student Federation to attacks by the state against protesting workers in the Polish city of Jastrzebie on the 2nd and 9th of February, where tear gas, water cannons and rubber bullets were fired at unarmed protesters, injuring twenty people. This concerns us as internationalists who firmly believe that an injury to one is an injury to all, but also as socialists, trade Read more…
In the latest move aimed at using the territory of Gibraltar to bolster political support, the Spanish foreign minister, Jose Manuel Garcia-Margallo, has announced the closure of the Cervantes Institute, a Spanish language school in Gibraltar. Gibraltar has always been a bone of contention between Spain and Britain which has been used by the ruling class in both countries to whip up nationalist sentiment when a politician needs a poll boost. Read more…
With the student elections at QMUL fast approaching, adverts have begun appearing around campus encouraging people to run for a position as a student representative. The situation faced by students today is a difficult one. We are paying £9,000 fees and racking up enormous debts, despite the graduate job market looking increasingly crowded and poorly paid. Many of us are living in poor quality housing managed by parasitic landlords whose contempt Read more…
On the 28 February 2015 the far right group PEGIDA will be holding their first demonstration in the UK in Newcastle’s city centre. This group who started off by holding weekly demonstrations in Dresden, Germany against the “Islamisation of Europe and the West” began in October 2014 and whilst they had a slow start in building support PEGIDA were able to bring 25,000 people onto the streets of that city on the Read more…
The article below was written over 120 years ago by the French Workers’ Party and deals with the question of internationalism in the workers’ movement. ————————————- In their senseless rage against the rising popularity of the Wokers’ Party, our class enemies have one last card to play: slander. They are trying to tarnish our internationalist movement just as they tried to destroy our socialist vision. The same people who are now trying to label Read more…
We publish here three reports from members of some of the MSF’s newest societies in Kent, Durham and Swansea. These comrades give their personal impressions of the conference and of the MSF as a whole. Nathan Taylor from Kent Marxist Society reports: “I was elected delegate for the newly established Kent Marxist society so this was the first time I had attended a conference and seen how the organisation works on Read more…
Below are three resolutions which will form the basis of the MSF’s campaigning work in 2015. These were discussed and voted on at the MSF conference in February 2015. If you’d like to get involved with our campaigning work, or bring our campaigns to your school or university, get in touch with campaigns@marxiststudent.com ———————————— Solidarity with Mexico Mexico is in the middle of a humanitarian crisis; since 2006, at least 22,000 people Read more…
Twelve months on from the founding conference, the Marxist Student Federation continues to go from strength to strength and continues to educate students in the ideas of Marxism. Last weekend our comrades from SOAS hosted the 2nd Marxist Student Federation conference, which was attended by over 80 representatives from Marxist societies around the country ranging from Newcastle to Bristol and Swansea to Cambridge attending the now annual event in London. The crisis of Read more…
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