The topic of no-platforming has come up intermittently in the student movement over the last few years. This is a tactic is to deny political opponents a speaking platform, either by appealing to universities or student unions to ban them from speaking, or by organising disruptive ‘direct action’ to prevent Read more…
The book that made me a Marxist was Lenin’s State and Revolution, which I first read at the age of 13. It was almost revelatory in how it showed me the façade of the ‘democracy’ that we live in. This was no ‘free society’, with elections where people have a Read more…
This year’s NUS conference, to be held in Glasgow on 8-11 April 2019, will play host to a record number of Marxist delegates. We’ll be arguing for the NUS to adopt radical socialist policies, as the only route by which the NUS can make itself relevant to the students it Read more…
Last week NUS delegate election campaigns were held in Manchester Metropolitan University and Leeds University. Marxist students ran on a bold socialist programme in both universities and were successfully elected. These Marxist delegates from MMU and Leeds will join delegates from SOAS, UCL, UEA, Swansea, and Sheffield at the NUS Read more…
Resolution adopted by the General Assembly of students at Paris Nanterre University on Monday 10th December 2018: In the last two weeks the movement of outrage against Macron has done nothing bug grow. High school students are showing the way forward: tens of thousands have taken to the streets en Read more…
On Thursday 6 December, high school students demonstrated outside a school in Mantes-la-Jolie, west of Paris. After a demonstration to protest the new reforms to the exam system, the students were brutally arrested by police officers. Shocking images of the arrest have been circulating on social media. Police officers, armed Read more…
Yesterday the General Assembly at Paul-Valery University in Montpellier passed a resolution calling for a general strike to bring down the Macron government. The same resolution is being brought to university General Assemblies in Toulouse Jean-Jaures today, and in Nanterre (Pairs) and Lyon in the near future. Inspired to link Read more…
This year’s NUS Conference will take place on 8-11 April 2019 in Glasgow. It will play host to more Marxist student delegates than ever before, including from UCL, SOAS, Swansea, UEA and Sheffield, with many more elections still to take place. The conference is set to deal with the £3 Read more…
Since this article was written, Macron’s government has backed down on the rise of fuel taxes. This has come in the context of rising support for the yellow vest movement – reaching 84% on 27th November – and the threat of a general strike from the major trade unions. Read more…
On 20th November, Marxist student and NUS delegate Nico Navarro Padrón passed a motion through SOAS Union’s General Meeting to support the struggles of precarious workers. The motion, unanimously accepted by the UGM, will now be brought to the NUS conference in April next year. As Marxists, we are Read more…
Political developments in Britain are accelerating rapidly. The Brexit fiasco threatens to topple the government. A Corbyn government is on the cards. A period of intense class struggle is on the agenda. And all the while a new world economic slump looms on the horizon. As Karl Marx once said: Read more…
We’re often told that our society promotes freedom of expression and discussion, that you can say and write whatever you want. Yet the recent revelation that the University of Reading has labelled an essay on the ethics of socialist revolution as ‘extremist’ under the Prevent legislations reveals the truth Read more…
We've moved to over to a new website! Head here for communist news, theory, and activity, brought to you by the RCP! Feel free to exit this pop-up to read the MSF archives.
This will close in 0 seconds