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Tory education plans: An attack on working class students

According to the Tories’ new plan for university education, applicants who don’t pass GCSE English and Maths will no longer be eligible for student loans. This disgraceful policy will effectively block off a quarter of young people from getting into university. Not only will many university students have to shoulder lifelong debt, but should these plans go ahead, some will now be expected to pay £9,250 up-front every year if they want Read more…

By Marxist Student, 3 yearsMarch 29, 2022 ago

NewVic College: Marxist students organise in solidarity with Child Q

Students at Newham Sixth Form College and members of the NewVic Student Activist Committee rally in solidarity with Child Q, the black schoolgirl who was brutally strip searched by Metropolitan Police at the Age of 15. There were passionate speeches from Marxist students, who organised the rally, about how the institutionally racist and sexist police do not represent the interests of ordinary people, and in fact are an oppressive body that exists Read more…

By Marxist Student, 3 yearsMarch 28, 2022 ago

Child Q: Fight racism and police brutality! Fight capitalism!

Protests have erupted across London in solidarity with Child Q – yet another victim of police racism, misogyny, and violence. It is clear that the Met Police are rotten to core. To end this oppression and repression, we need to end capitalism. Twice over the last week, on Friday 18 March and Sunday 20 March, large crowds gathered in Hackney, London, in support of ‘Child Q’ – a black schoolgirl who, in Read more…

By Marxist Student, 3 yearsMarch 22, 2022 ago

Workers and students unite in Birmingham

On March 2nd, comrades of the University of Birmingham Marxist Society held a student strike rally with the help of the local UCU. After hearing from a range of student groups and labour movement speakers, such as the Coventry bin strikers and Unison, a Marxist Society member spoke, addressing the roughly 100 people in attendance, a mix of students and striking staff. Our comrades raised the demands for free education and the Read more…

By Marxist Student, 3 years ago

Lancaster students strike!

The Lancaster Marxists’ activity in support of striking UCU members at Lancaster University has been a great success. We have been on the picket line every day speaking to staff; our comrades have given speeches at rallies raising Marxist demands; and, we were also invited to lead a UCU teach-in on the lessons of the revolutionary events of May 1968. Throughout all of this, we have been providing input on how to Read more…

By Marxist Student, 3 years ago

Sheffield Student Walkout

Despite horrible weather 300 Sheffield students and staff rallied together on March 2nd to call for free education, funded by the government, with proper pay, pensions and conditions for all workers. The local Marxist societies had taken a lead in building for these strikes, rallying together student activists from across the city to support striking staff. There was a march through town to the University of Sheffield Students Union where students and Read more…

By Marxist Student, 3 years ago

Students and Workers Strike For Education

The NUS (National Union of Students) called for a walkout on 2 March coinciding with the end of the latest round of UCU strikes. There were four demands for the walkout: full funding for education, accessible education, lifelong education, and democracy in the education system. We fully support these demands. Marxists argue that we need free education, accessible to everyone throughout their lifetimes, funded by the expropriation of the biggest businesses and Read more…

By Marxist Student, 3 yearsMarch 8, 2022 ago

Support the UCU at Edinburgh!

At our Edinburgh John Mclean Society comrades have begun a petition to get the student assembly to act! Read their statement here and sign by heading to their instagram or our website! “Since last week (starting 14th Feb 2022), UCU staff at the University of Edinburgh have been on strike to protest pension cuts and precarious working conditions (4 fights: pay, workload, casualisation, equality). This wave of strikes started last December, but Read more…

By Marxist Student, 3 yearsFebruary 28, 2022 ago

London UCU march – a fighting mood!

As part of the national UCU strike, UCU London region organised a rally and demo starting at Tavistock Square on Tuesday afternoon. Over 400 UCU members and students gathered to protest for fair and equal pay, an end to pension robbery, manageable workloads, and call for the end of casualisation. Rally To kick off the protest, a number of speeches were made by UCU members, trade unionists and students. Paul Holmes, National Read more…

By Marxist Student, 3 years ago

Imperialist hypocrisy and the invasion of Ukraine

Vladimir Putin shocked the world yesterday morning by launching a full-scale invasion of Ukraine. Despite many ‘strong’ words, Western leaders have been exposed as impotent. Only revolutionary class struggle can end the horrors of capitalism and war. So, it has started. Russian forces have unleashed a massive attack on Ukraine. In the early hours of the morning, in a short televised address, Russian President Vladimir Putin announced a “special military operation” at Read more…

By Marxist Student, 3 years ago

KCL Marxists organise alternate student assembly

KCL Marxist Society organised to be on the UCU pickets every day this week. We believe that it is important to show the lecturers that they have student solidarity and to bring our political ideas to these strikes. We have been involved in teach outs, talking about revolutionary ideas. Lecturers on the pickets have been excited to talk about politics in a broad sense. The Students’ Union on KCL campus has failed Read more…

By Marxist Student, 3 yearsFebruary 23, 2022 ago

Report from University of Leeds pickets!

The last week has been extremely busy for the Leeds Marxist Society. We’ve been on the picket lines supporting lecturers and trying to build student solidarity with the 2nd March walkout. Here in Leeds, we have organised a demonstration on March 2nd to show University management that students are against them. The plan is to march through the city centre and show our anger at the marketisation of education. Striking lecturers have Read more…

By Marxist Student, 3 yearsFebruary 22, 2022 ago

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