Over the past two weeks, university staff all over the country have braved freezing weather, bullying tactics from management and attempted press smears, to strike in defence of their pensions. In the space of five days of action, we’ve affected a complete transformation of the situation: students have turned up Read more…
The resolution below is being submitted by the Cambridge Marxist society to the Cambridge University Students’ Union (CUSU) to build support for the UCU strike action. Marxist societies all over the country should take this as a model motion to build for student occupations to support lecturers around the country. Read more…
Yesterday thousands of UCU members and students marched through central London as part of the strike action that is sweeping the education sector. UCU members in Higher Education have been on strike for five days now over proposed changes to their pension scheme. And yesterday was the first day of Read more…
Unison have now balloted members in Higher Education who are part of the USS pension scheme for strike action over the proposed changes to the scheme. This is the same reason why UCU members are currently taking strike action at universities around the country. Unison actually began a consultation over Read more…
Report from the student union AGM at Queen Mary Out delegation from the Marxist society has attended the picket lines in the mornings and the mood was good. Yesterday evening there was a 5:30pm gathering in the bar for supporters of two motions that had been submitted to the SU Read more…
This open letter was written by students at the University of Liverpool to their Vice-Chancellor, and President of Universities UK, Professor Janet Beer. It has been sent to the Marxist Student Federation, as well as other media outlets, and we are publishing it in its entirety as it shows the Read more…
After an excellent start to the UCU strikes last week, Marxist students have again been out on the picket lines today in solidarity with our lecturers. Despite the snow and sub-zero temperatures the pickets were in excellent spirits this morning – everyone feels like this is a strike that can Read more…
Some people argue that capitalism = democracy and communism = dictatorship. Is that really the case? Jess takes up the arguments.
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…
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