The resolution below was passed unanimously by the Marxist Student Federation national conference in February 2018 ———– The Marxist Student Federation (MSF) conference notes: The Spanish state has consistently denied the democratic right of the Catalan people to decide their own future. One of the pillars of the Spanish Read more…
Fifty years after the revolutionary events of 1968, one hundred revolutionary Marxist students gathered at SOAS in London for the annual Marxist Student Federation conference. With comrades from Glasgow to Southampton present the conference, which was the Federation’s fifth, was the most enjoyable yet. 1968: year of revolution The Read more…
After three weeks of strike action at Eastham Refinery, the Suttons tanker drivers have been victorious. From the police being used to cross the picket line, the arrest of demonstrators and even an appeal to Manchester High Court for an injunction to stop picketing altogether, management threw everything at the Read more…
On 30 January, the Palestinian activist Ahed Tamimi celebrated her 17th birthday inside an Israeli cell. Her crime, the slapping of an Israeli soldier who had shot her brother in the head with a rubber bullet barely an hour ago. The story quickly gained traction across the Palestinian community and Read more…
The London Young Labour (LYL) Annual General Meeting (AGM), held on Saturday 3 February, was a victory for left-wingers in the Labour Party. Momentum dominated the event, and wrested control of LYL away from the right-wing of the party. The election of Momentum-backed Artin Giles as Chair of LYL was Read more…
The University and College Union (UCU) has announced four rounds of escalating strike action in defence of its members’ pensions. This attack on staff is just the latest in a long string of similar attacks which are part of the drive to marketise education, drive down costs, and increase revenues. Read more…
On Thursday 25th January, a protest was called by the Independent Workers of Great Britain (IWGB) union against the outsourcing practices happening at the University of London. This was part of their ongoing effort to bring all the workers in-house, in order to guarantee the most basic rights that all Read more…
Members of the University and Colleges Union (UCU) have voted in record numbers for strike action over attacks to the lecturers’ main pension scheme. In the ballot results announced earlier this week, 88 percent of eligible members voted YES to a strike, with 93 percent supporting action short of a Read more…
At midday on Tuesday 23 January there was a showdown at the gates of Eastham refinery. Four Suttons Tankers appeared on the road, with the intention of crossing the picket line, along with a heavy police presence. This was an open attempt to break the strike. Three demonstrators, in support Read more…
In an all-student vote of Southampton University Students’ Union which closed earlier this month, 90.6 % of the 2,335 students who took part said they believed the pay of the Vice-Chancellor of Southampton University should be cut, and 92.4 % agreed that staff cuts (part of the university’s latest plans) Read more…
Drivers of Suttons Tankers at the Eastham refinery, near Ellesmere Port, have begun an indefinite strike in their fight against attacks on their wages, terms and conditions. On 18 December the management of Suttons Tankers served the 33 workers at the refinery with a 30-day consultation notice. In a move Read more…
24% of people aged 18-24 see right-wingers and big business as the most dangerous things in the world today. This is compared to just 9% who said the same thing about communists. These findings from a ComRes poll have set the establishment on edge. As a result The Today Programme Read more…
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