Here at Newcastle, we are being very proactive in relation to the upcoming UCU strikes. Early contact was made with the local UCU branch. We offered our solidarity, and set up a meeting to discuss how we can best support the strike. We have offered to assist with fundraising, in Read more…
We are busy spreading the word about the upcoming NUS student walkout, with frequent flyering sessions on campus. These have resulted in an impressive level of engagement from students. On 3 February, we had our first Marxist society event of the term. We brought up the student walkout, and specifically Read more…
In Birmingham, we held a meeting on 3 February to coordinate work for the upcoming UCU strikes and NUS walkout. The meeting was attended by student activists from both the University of Birmingham and Birmingham City University. Dozens of people have already agreed to help mobilise for the walkout. We Read more…
Over the past year or so, Goldsmiths University has been another victim of the crisis of education’s marketisation. A restructuring scheme was made in a backroom deal with Lloyds and NatWest banks, and was outsourced to a multinational consultancy firm. A series of loans were issued by these banks on Read more…
The NUS has called for a national student walkout on 2 March. And university lecturers are set to take further strike action this term. Activists must begin building for these immediately, to mobilise a mass movement to defend education. The National Union of Students (NUS) has called for a nationwide Read more…
Irish activists Orla and Zac are facing trial – and possible severe punishment – this week for protesting against government inaction over climate change.
Today is the anniversary of women gaining the right to vote in Britain. But what did this mean? Here, Rosa Luxemburg looks at the question of women’s rights and how it relates to the class struggle. Read her thought here in women’s suffrage and class struggle. “Why are there no Read more…
Today markers the 79th anniversary of the end of the Battle of Stalingrad, with the surrender of German troops, a key turning point in the Second World War, where about 800,000 German and Axis troops were either killed or captured, including the entire German Sixth Army and its commander-in-chief – Read more…
Teachers at Newham Sixth Form college in east London are continuing their strike against overwork, management bullying, and academisation. Meanwhile, students are mobilising in support of staff. We must build the fightback to defend education. For over four weeks now, National Education Union (NEU) members have been on strike at Read more…
Today marks 85 years since the Catalan Offensive, the tragic end of the Spanish Civil War. Here we republish an introduction to Trotsky’s pamphlet, “The Lessons of Spain: The Last Warning” (1937), written by Ted Grant in collaboration with Ralph Lee while they were in the Workers’ International League: a predecessor Read more…
Today marks 98 years since Lenin’s death. To mark the occasion, we are republishing this article which was originally written to commemorate the Lenin centenary in 1970. The early symptoms of bureaucratic degeneration in Russia were already noted by Lenin in the last two years of his politically active life. Read more…
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