Today an anti-casualisation rally took place on the picket line at KCL. Despite the rain there was a strong amount of support from both students and staff (and a few bus drivers in passing traffic!) who gathered to listen to militant workers from different sectors of the workforce at Read more…
A number of students including those of the Cambridge Marxist society have occupied Old Schools, the administrative hub of The University of Cambridge, in coordination with CDE and other groups of the left in solidarity with the UCU strike. They say: “We support the immediate demands put forward by Read more…
Students at NUI Galway, University College Dublin, NUI Cork and elsewhere have been involved in occupations of their universities in response to spiralling rents. The conditions being faced by students in Ireland will be immediately familiar to students in Britain. STATEMENTFollowing the decision of NUI Galway to implement a Read more…
A walkout occurred on 23 January 2020 at SOAS, University of London to condemn the cuts of the fractional workers and academic staff on research leave. With over 400 students and staff, both permanent and temporary in attendance, many have stated that this was the largest demonstration at SOAS. Read more…
There is no denying that the result for Labour on December 13th 2019 was devastating. Why was Labour incapable of winning at the ballot box? Luckily, it would seem, there was no shortage of ‘political experts’ claiming to answer this question. As soon as the exit poll was released, Read more…
Photo: Reuters On the 8th of January the government of Chile announced that it will prosecute 34 leaders of secondary students’ organizations under the State’s Security Law, after they succeeded in boycotting nationwide the integrated system of tests for university admission (PSU). This law, which substantially aggravates the sentences Read more…
The Modi government has unleashed a brutal attack on the student leaders of the Jawaharlal Nehru University in Delhi through its goons, allegedly linked to ABVP and RSS. The thugs of the ABVP, student wing of BJP, assembled in large numbers along with security personnel in civilian clothes, and entered Read more…
Academic staff organised in the UCU are currently in the middle of strike action over pensions and pay. The strike is due to finish on 4th December, but could escalate in the new year if management at Universities UK (UUK) do not meet the union’s demands. The MSF has Read more…
A desperate act by a financially insecure student is reflective of Macron’s austerity policies that continue to attack the working class. Anger and frustration is rising as the government fails to deliver on the most basic reforms to help students get by, meanwhile apathy from the representatives of the Read more…
The Marxist Student Federation is ready to support all workers on strike over this period. Marxist societies up and down the country will be at the picket lines from this morning onward. The working conditions of our staff are our learning conditions and we should stand side by Read more…
On Monday 11 November I attended a last-minute rally called by the Committees for the Defence of the Republic (CDR) in central Barcelona. This was just a glimpse into the ongoing militant struggle being waged against the reactionary Spanish state, yet it reflected a mood of radicalisation and determination, Read more…
As the general election campaign gets underway the choice for students and young workers has never been clearer. On the one hand you have a government led by a party responsible for staggering tuition fees, deaths of thousands from cut public services and in complete denial over the terrible Read more…
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