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 text below will be submitted to the national conference of the Marxist Student Federation on 17 February in London as a resolution on the importance of studying Marxist theory. ——— Marxism is the history and theory of the class struggle. It is the memory of the working class. If 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…
Home, the saying goes, is where the heart is. Yet it is there that we are being forced to bear the most sickening attacks. We face manipulative agencies, dodgy landlords, and a pathetic government building programme. This is pricing millions, especially those of us under thirty, out of a decent Read more…
In the midst of the ongoing Brexit chaos students may be wondering what is going to happen to their European friends and colleagues. Will we retain the same rights? Will we be still considered equal? Well, let’s be clear: our rights were never “equal” in the first place. Yes, we Read more…
Last week Warwick Anti-Racism Society held an anti-slavery protest of 40 people who braved the cold and abandoned the end of term parties to show their anger and disdain for the human trafficking and modern-day slavery taking hold in Libya. Over 15,000 migrants and refugees have drowned in the Mediterranean Read more…
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