The weekly meetings of the Marxist societies are the foundation upon which the Marxist Student Federation is built. Without these meetings campaigning and other work will be impossible. Choose a topic This has to be one that will draw in people who are interested in the ideas of Marxism. Read more…
Wake up world and see the carnage Sunday 20th July marked a day of action in Bolivia, as demonstrators took to the streets in three cities across the country to show their support for Palestine following the recent escalation of violence in Gaza. Residents of Santa Cruz, Cochabamba and Read more…
The important result achieved by the FN in the European elections – and of the extreme right in other European countries – rightly provoked a wave of indignation among young people in France. The week after the elections, demonstrations, spontaneous in many instances, of several thousand school and university Read more…
The Chair of the Board of Directors of the Student Loans Company (SLC), Chris Brodie, was selected to preside over the first four University of Sussex graduation ceremonies on 8-11 July, as popular comedian and University Chancellor Sanjeev Bhaskar was unavailable due to filming commitments. The selection, made by Vice-Chancellor Read more…
On May 22 the Prime Minister famously promised to release 36 million euros earmarked for school buildings with the aim of rebuilding “obsolete structures” and for the builidng of “new buildings that meet the highest standards of safety”. This appeared to be a step forward after silence on this Read more…
As we reported earlier, the staff at Lambeth College in South London are waging a determined struggle against cuts to conditions and jobs. Today, June 11th, saw a rally outside its Clapham site in support of the indefinite strike action being waged by UCU members, who are also now joined Read more…
On June 3 the LSE Marxists had the first meeting of the LSE Marxist Society. This also marked the last event of the London Marxist Societies this academic year. We held the meeting in order to analyse, from a Marxist perspective, the work of Thomas Piketty, author of Capital in the 21st Century, who’s been Read more…
LONDON MEETING FOR THE ANTIFASCIST SOLIDARITY CAMPAIGN: http://www.marxist.com/solidarity-with-antifascist-resistance-ukraine-london.htm The Marxist Student Federation expresses its solidarity with the anti-fascist resistance in Ukraine. In the last few months the Kiev authorities have been incorporating neo-nazi paramilitary groups into the state apparatus. These paramilitary groups are the government’s answer to the fact Read more…
Aberystwyth University management has again taken the offensive against the workers, this time over the issue of pensions, as the management proposes to close the current pension scheme, and replace it with a second rate scheme. The management is seeking to replace the current defined benefit scheme and replace it Read more…
The ongoing dispute at Lambeth College is emblematic of the entire austerity and privatisation programme. The militancy of the struggle against attacks on terms and conditions at Lambeth College and the closure of the Brixton site could in turn be an important point of reference in the struggle against austerity Read more…
The budget presented to Cambridge University Student Union (CUSU) Council for the academic year 2014-15 contains a glaring omission. Following the controversy over the salary of the General Manager of CUSU (an unelected member of staff at the Union) in October, you could be forgiven for assuming that the CUSU leadership Read more…
The classic text by Frederick Engels, Dialectics of Nature, is an application of the principles of Marxist philosophy to scientific discovery. Engels proves that it is dialectical materialism that is best suited to explain the natural phenomena observed by scientific experiment. Next month will also see the publication of an Read more…
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