The notorious Prevent scheme will, as of October, legally oblige universities, colleges and schools to spy and report on students who may be considered at risk of ‘violent extremism’. People who qualify as ‘at risk’ according to Prevent include those who are interested in ‘political change’. The National Union of Students has Read more…
Following the turn of events in Turkey with the AKP party openly attacking Kurdish fighters and left wing forces in Turkey, Iraq and Syria, we call on all students at schools and universities to organize solidarity with the Kurdish working class and the Left in Turkey. The bomb attack in Read more…
Following revelations that Caroline Flint, Blairite candidate for deputy leader of the Labour Party, has the backing of the corporate lobbyist group Sovereign Strategy (which counts among its clients the company responsible for judging disabled people fit for work) the news that she is also being backed in her bid Read more…
POLAND: Partia Razem was formed earlier this year by activists from varying backgrounds, including the Young Socialists, Green Party, trade unions, cooperatives as well as prominent academics and journalists with the aim of standing for the parliamentary elections this year. In order for a new party to stand for Read more…
The school and college term has begun again with less than two weeks to go before the result of the Labour Party leadership is announced. To the horror of the Tories, the rich and the establishment, Jeremy Corbyn’s campaign has rocked the British political scene by energising hundreds of thousands Read more…
In the midst of the deepest crisis capitalism has ever experienced, a crisis that young people and workers are being made to pay for, Jeremy Corbyn’s inspiring bid for leadership of the Labour Party has been a beacon of hope for hundreds of thousands of people. Corbyn promises a Read more…
This year universities have a larger intake than usual as caps on student numbers have been lifted. This, combined with other factors, is leading to a boom in construction work taking place on campuses. But there is a very sinister side to the companies being contracted in to do Read more…
2007-08 saw the beginnings of a world economic crisis unlike any other we have seen. Since the end of the Second World War there have been seven official recessions, but each of these was followed by a period of relatively fast recovery. This time the situation is different though. There Read more…
by Mordecai Levi, Cambridge Marxists What is now my principal task? To reveal the truth.” – Leon Trotsky speaking in Mexico, January 30th 1937. The events of October 1917 are the greatest in all of human history. For the first time since 1871 – when the Paris Commune was put Read more…
by Eoin Breathnach and Gavin Jackson, Leeds Marxist Society The past two decades have witnessed a barrage of propaganda against Marxism and its revolutionary heritage.Since the collapse of Stalinism – not socialism, but a monstrously deformed caricature of Marxism – from one front to another the mainstream media, universities, Read more…
(A letter to the Kiev comrades. From Pravda, May 31, 1923. Translated for this volume from Collected Works, Vol. 2 1, by Marilyn Vogt. From: Problems of Every Day Life by Leon Trotsky.) Dear Comrades: You complain that you have not been able to read even one-tenth of the Read more…
Jeremy Corbyn has proposed the abolition of student fees and the reintroduction of maintenance grants for all students. Striking back hard at the Tory plans to remove grants for the poorest students at university, the Labour leadership candidate has defended the rights of all to education. Having opposed the Read more…
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