Rachel from the Glasgow Marxists reports on the freshers’ fair and the society’s first meeting of the term: “First day of Glasgow freshers’ fair today! We had 7 society members manning the stalls. In total we signed up around 100 people who are interested in the society. We also sold £12 of Read more…
Below, in both English and Spanish, is a statement sent to the Marxist Student Federation by our comrades in Mexico. Greetings such as this remind us of what we are fighting for, and that here in Britain we are lucky to be able to organise without overt threats of violence, kidnap Read more…
Marxist students are looking forward to Sunday’s (20 Sept) meeting, called by the Labour Campaign for Free Education, to relaunch the Young Labour Left using the momentum of Jeremy Corbyn’s stunning election victory. We’re hoping that a vibrant, socialist movement is going to come out of this initiative and, naturally, Read more…
Sussex Marxist society had a stall at the university freshers fair and a meeting on the subject of ‘Defend Corbyn, Fight for Socialism’ on Wednesday 16 September. Dan from the Sussex Marxist society reports: “We’ve had a really good day and signed up around 100 people to our mailing list. The Read more…
Alan Woods, editor of www.marxist.com, analyses the significance of Jeremy Corbyn’s recent victory in the Labour Party leadership elections. Corbyn’s landslide victory is yet another political earthquake that is shaking the ruling class, the establishment, and the entire system in Britain and internationally.
Jeremy Corbyn’s stunning victory in the Labour leadership election has dealt a decisive blow to the right-wing of the party. It has exposed as false the empty Blairite rhetoric about the importance of the “middle ground” and is a denunciation of the abandonment of Labour’s socialist policies in the New Read more…
On 9 September 2015 Elizabeth II became the longest reigning monarch in British history. As this date approached, newspapers and programmes on the telly joyously compared Elizabeth’s reign to the reign of Queen Victoria. To celebrate this anniversary we were asked by the editors of the Wessex Scene, the student Read more…
On a global scale young people and workers are under attack by the rich and the establishment, who are keen to protect their profits and their position at the top of society. This is the result of a crisis of the capitalist system, which has exhausted its potential to develop Read more…
Yesterday afternoon David Cameron announced – after weeks of participating in the despicable, racist bile being thrown at the thousands of desperate Asian and African refugees making their way to Europe – that he would allow 20,000 people to find refuge in Britain over the next five years. This Read more…
The world economy is on the verge of another deep slump, with China now joining the global crisis of capitalism; the crisis in Europe continues, with Greece in political turmoil and an unprecedented number of refugees coming to Europe in the hope of escaping war and poverty; and Britain has Read more…
#CutTheCosts is the latest political campaign set up by NUS, the aim of which is to force the government to u-turn on its planned scrapping of maintenance grants. It is also raising the idea that it would be more beneficial to cut living costs as this would actually eliminate the Read more…
This weekend, on Sunday 6th September, the labour movement celebrates the centenary of the longest strike in British history, the Burston School strike, which ran from 1914 to 1939 in Norfolk. The strike had the solid support of the local community of farm labourers and farm tenants and it Read more…
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