The Nation Union of Students (NUS) and University and Colleges Union (UCU) have called a demo on 19 November – we’ll be there, united for education. The demo has been called to defend education against cuts, privatisations and marketization. Recently there have been endless attacks on bursaries, grants, teaching standards, lecturer’s pay, Read more…
The Southampton Marxist society has written an article for the Wessex Scene, the local student newspaper in Southampton. The full article can be found here and some key excerpts from it are below. Students across the country have already devised ways of fighting back against the exploitation of their rent. With Read more…
There’s an old Chinese curse which roughly translates into English as “May you live in interesting times” and it certainly seems that in recent months these words do make for a particularly painful curse. It seemed laughable this time last year that there was any chance of a Donald Trump Read more…
Donald Trump’s victory in the US presidential elections has delivered the biggest political upset in history; a political earthquake that has shattered the entire global Establishment, making Brexit look like a minor tremor in comparison. In reality, however, Trump is not the problem, but a symptom of a more general Read more…
Racism has reared its ugly head on the University of Manchester campus in the form of disgusting, racially motivated attacks against BME students standing in Students’ Union officer election. In recent weeks on the University of Manchester campus elections have been held for part time officer positions in the Read more…
Around the world, millions of people are waiting nervously for the upcoming presidential election in the United States on November 8th. Will Hillary Clinton or Donald Trump become the most powerful person in the free world? Comedians and economist alike foretell of impending political catastrophe, social ruin, and the fall Read more…
In 2015 the ruling class of the Republic of South Africa promised to the Fees Must Fall movement that there would be no more rises in tuition fees. As we know now – they’ve simply lied. Since the very beginning of the rises they didn’t shy away from openly admitting Read more…
Franklin Qiao from the UCLU Marxist society recently ran on a Marxist platform for the position of delegate to the National Union of Students. Franklin’s ideas would transform the NUS from a distant bureaucratic machine into a fighting students’ union. Unfortunately Franklin did not win election this time around Read more…
Throughout the month of September, Socialist Fightback clubs at UVic, UofT, Ryerson, York U and Seneca, Trent Durham, McMaster, Waterloo, UdeM, Concordia, and McGill, engaged with hundreds of students interested in Marxist ideas during the frosh campus club days and street festivals. In total, over 1000 students expressed interest in Read more…
[Today thousands of youth and students will take to the streets to protest against the government’s attacks on education and the student grant (SU). The article below is from REVOLT, the English magazine of Revolutionære Socialister – IMT in Denmark] The Danish government has recently presented its 2025 plan, and as Read more…
Staff at London Metropolitan university have been on strike over the appalling attacks on education being carried out by university management. I interviewed the local branch secretary of the University and College Union (UCU) on the picket line. So, what do you do at the university? I teach Read more…
Revolution, the youth paper of the International Marxist Tendency, met up with a representative of the Bursary or Bust campaign to discuss the terrible conditions faced by student nurses in Britain, who have lost their NHS bursary to Tory austerity measures. With this financial lifeline cut and further junior doctors’ strikes Read more…
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