A loud and passionate protest was held by students at UCL on Wednesday 6 December to demand increased funding for the university’s mental health service – the Student Psychological Services (SPS). The demonstration was called by the student- run campaign UCL: Fund Our Mental Health Services, and coincided with UCL’s Open Read more…
Cleaners who work in six different schools in Hackney, London have been refused holiday pay at the legal rate. These 42 school cleaners are already some of the lowest paid workers, and yet their employer has not only refused to pay proper holiday pay, but has also refused to discuss Read more…
We’re all opposed to racism – but how do we get rid of it? To answer that we need to know where it comes from, so that we know how to fight it. Can we get rid of it within the confines of the capitalist system? Ravi has the answers.
The Prime Minister of Spain, Rajoy, was forced to slide through the back entrance of a chilly Downing Street this morning, due to protests against the Spanish state’s repression of Catalan independence. As the reactionary Spanish leader entered Number 10, he would have heard shouts for Catalan independence and freedom Read more…
A Unison-led demonstration was held outside King’s College London on Friday 1 December as part of an on-going campaign to bring the university’s cleaning staff in-house. King’s cleaners, who are currently outsourced to a contractor called Servest, endure miserly wages; fewer days of paid holiday; and limited sick pay, maternity Read more…
On Friday 24 November, the cleaners of King’s College London, alongside 40 sympathisers and supporters, met to discuss the next steps in their struggle to be brought back in house and achieve better working conditions. Like many other universities, King’s has contracted out its cleaning services. The cleaners are therefore Read more…
On 14th November, the Vice-Chancellor announced a ten-year plan of “restructuring” for the future of Southampton University, merging eight university departments into five. This is claimed to be a move to improve the uni’s standing in the league tables. This in practice just amounts to smudging numbers and statistics around Read more…
With grand rhetoric about the values of ancient Greek democracy, the French president, Emmanuel Macron, welcomed his audience in Athens on the hill of Pnyx in September this year. He told the crowd that after everything the Greek people have had to endure, he would bring “democracy, sovereignty and Read more…
On Tuesday 21st November, SOAS Marxist society and Socialist Appeal supporters, along with several hundred other demonstrators, attended the protest called by the Independent Workers of Great Britain (IWGB) University of London branch in support of bringing outsourced workers at the Senate House back in-house. The demonstration was lively Read more…
A couple of weeks ago Warwick Students’ Union announced that after working with university management they had negotiated a decrease in the planned rent rise of 3% in the cheaper accommodation, down to 2.56%. And they had managed to keep rent rises in a few other blocks in line with Read more…
The Marxist society at KCL just carried the following resolution unanimously, and took a photo showing our support. Every society should do the same ?! KCL Marx Soc resolution: Justice for KCL Cleaners! The KCL Marxist Society notes: King’s College London cleaning staff are employed by the contractor Servest, under whom Read more…
On Friday, during a UK Youth Parliament sitting of the House of Commons, members of UK Youth Parliament sang rounds of “Oh Jeremy Corbyn”. With an average age of 15 in the Youth Parliament, we once again see the incredible impact of the Corbyn movement on winning over young people. Read more…
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