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Analysis

Marketisation and the mental health crisis

A recent student suicide has once again shone a light on the disastrous impact that mounting debts, rents, and insecurity have on young people’s lives and mental health. Only clear socialist policies can tackle this problem at its root.

By Meg Lee, Birmingham Marxists, 7 months ago

Student walk-out at Deyes High School

Last Friday, 200 students walked out of their lessons at Deyes High School near Liverpool, in protest against the bureaucratic mismanagement of the school. This anger and militancy must be channelled into a united fight to bring education under democratic control.

By Liverpool Marxists, 9 months8 months ago

Poverty pay and outsourcing: University workers fight back

Support staff at Leeds University, organised in Unison, are on strike this week, fighting for decent pay. This is one of many struggles taking place on UK campuses, as workers and students mobilise against the marketisation of education. After 12 years of below-inflation pay, higher education (HE) staff organised in Read more…

By Marxist Student, 9 months ago

Rainbow logos and corporate pinkwashing: Kick capitalism out of Pride!

As Pride month rolls around each year, the capitalists and their representatives eagerly attempt to show their ‘undying and unwavering support’ to the LGBT community. And this year is no different.

By Marxist Student, 10 months ago

This Jubilee: It’s time to abolish the monarchy – For a socialist republic!

As the Queen’s Platinum Jubilee approaches this weekend, the British establishment and its media mouthpieces are going into a flag-waving frenzy. We say: Abolish the monarchy! No to this rotten, reactionary relic! Fight for a socialist republic!

By Marxist Student, 10 months10 months ago

The state and ‘subversive threats’: Inquiry reveals police spying on school kids

The Met Police’s Special Demonstration Squad (SDS) was an undercover unit tasked with infiltrating political groups. Operating between 1968 and 2008, the squad has been under scrutiny recently, facing a public inquiry into its activities.

By Marxist Student, 10 months ago

Student loans: Graduates face a lifetime of debt under capitalism

Due to austerity and marketisation, tuition fees have soared, leaving graduates with a mountain of debt. And with inflation now surging, the interest on these loans is skyrocketing. We must demand free education, funded by expropriation.

By Marxist Student, 10 months11 months ago

Holland Park School: Tensions rise as governors up the ante

The struggle to prevent Holland Park School from joining a giant academy trust is escalating, with management and a hostile press attempting to sow confusion, and teachers set to strike. Parents, students, and staff must unite and fight.

By Marxist Student, 11 months11 months ago

John Fisher School strike: Defeat oppression with class struggle!

NEU members at a Catholic school in Croydon have voted to strike against the scandalous decision to ban a gay author from speaking to students. This shows the way forward in the fight against oppression: through united class struggle. Last week, on 16 April, 90% of National Education Union (NEU) Read more…

By Marxist Student, 11 months11 months ago

Holland Park School: Escalate the fight against trust takeover!

Staff, students, and parents at Holland Park School in London are organising to oppose the proposed takeover by a giant academy trust. To defend education, the labour movement must fight to end academisation, and put workers in control.

By Marxist Student, 11 months11 months ago

Education white paper: Another step in the marketisation of education

Years of chronic underfunding – alongside the pandemic – have led to a crisis in the country’s schools. Tory proposals offer no solution. To defend education, we must fight academisation and privatisation, and tackle the problem at its root.

By Marxist Student, 12 months12 months ago

Tory education plans: An attack on working class students

According to the Tories’ new plan for university education, applicants who don’t pass GCSE English and Maths will no longer be eligible for student loans. This disgraceful policy will effectively block off a quarter of young people from getting into university.  Not only will many university students have to shoulder Read more…

By Marxist Student, 12 months12 months ago

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