Dear Higher Education Workers, Last year we saw the most militant strike in UCU’s history. This time the battle is growing wider to encompass better pay for the lowest paid workers, job security, and fairer workloads. We as students and fellow workers encourage a yes vote to strike action Read more…
A General Election is coming. We need to be ready. We want Corbyn to power on a socialist programme. #MarxistStudents can play a big role in this election. The student vote transformed the 2017 General Election. Students turned Canterbury red where the Tories had the seat for 100 years. We Read more…
Recently the BBC, surprise surprise, made a slanderous video titled “Marxism: what it means, and is it an insult?”. The video was made in light of the recent verbal attacks against Jeremy Corbyn and John McDonnell by prominent Conservative politicians calling them Marxists. In the five minute video, “academic Read more…
Boris Johnson has wormed his way into No 10. He has been voted in by 160,000 of the most right wing reactionary people in the country, the majority of whom are over 55 years of age and believe that Islam is “a threat to the British way of life” and “Trump would Read more…
Photograph (via the U.S. Customs and Border Protection’s Flickrstream) The past weeks have seen renewed attention to the United States border and the detention of migrants, especially migrant children, in what essentially constitute concentration camps. The focus of public attention has largely been concentrated on the immediate horrors of these Read more…
Universities at Sheffield, Newcastle and Strathclyde have partnered up with the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) in creating the Future Electrical Machines Manufacturing Hub. The aim is to spur an ‘electrification revolution’ in UK manufacturing while creating PhD projects. They will work alongside a long list of Read more…
A lecturer at Sandwell College in the West Midlands has been sacked for writing the words “racist” and “should be illegal” on a poster promoting the government’s so-called counter-terrorism programme, Prevent. The system is absurdly defined as “a community safeguarding programme”. In reality, the decision by the college to Read more…
Last month saw the release of a review commissioned by Theresa May which proposes a series of reforms to post-18 education. While it aims to improve access to all forms of post-18 education, it is clear that the proposals contained in this report would only exacerbate the crisis facing Read more…
On the 1st June an inquest was held into the suicide of a student at the University of Manchester last year. The student had written a five page letter, in which he expressed his shock at the university’s failure to check up with him, despite them being fully aware Read more…
Recently the University of Warwick announced that it would implement a new scheme for disadvantaged students from around the West Midlands region. The scheme, named “Warwick Scholars’, would cost £10 million a year and is aimed at improving the admissions prospects of talented students who live in deprived areas Read more…
At the end of last month, 43 police forces across England and Wales introduced powers enabling the police to seize the digital devices of those coming forward to report rape or sexual assault. A victim’s mobile phone and laptop can be confiscated for indefinite periods of time, enabling the Read more…
Over a million people marched yesterday against education cuts and pension counter reform during Brazil’s national education strike. The national education strike, called by the National Confederation of Education Unions (CNTE) and National Union of Students (UNE) was in response to a 30% budget cut announced by Bolsonaro’s Education Read more…
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