Corbyn’s Labour Party have tabled a motion to lower the voting age to 16. The key reason for tabling such a motion, and for Theresa May opposing it, is that the last election saw two-thirds of 18 to 24-year–olds support the Labour Party, with turnout for the age bracket skyrocketing Read more…
Next Wednesday 15 November there will be a demonstration in London calling for free education. Marxist Students will be there and we hope as many people as possible will be able to come along. We want to see free education, full living grants for all students, and an end to Read more…
It is October 24th: the eve of revolution – though nobody knows it yet. There have been rumours of an imminent uprising against Kerensky and the Provisional Government for days, but (helped in no small part by the efforts of Kamenev, Zinoviev and Stalin to stall events) the Bolshevik leadership Read more…
We all want to change the world, but is a revolution really necessary for that? Can’t we just make reforms and adjustments to the existing system? Joe has the answers!
The root cause of all forms of oppression is the division of society into classes. This oppression can take many forms. Alongside class oppression we find the oppression of one nation over another, racial oppression, and the oppression of women. Marxists must fight against oppression and discrimination in all its Read more…
Sometimes we hear people saying that neo-liberalism, rather than capitalism, is the biggest problem we face today. What exactly is neo-liberalism? What is its relationship to capitalism as a system? And what does that mean for Marxists? Sam from UCL has the answers!
On Thursday 19th October around 40 students met with cleaning staff and Unison reps to launch the campaign Kings College London Justice for Cleaners. Inspired by successful campaigns at LSE and SOAS, the campaign aims to bring KCL cleaning back ‘in house’ rather than being outsourced to Servest, and to Read more…
Cambridge University invests more than £370 million in fossil fuels and has close ties with oil and energy companies. Between 2009 and 2014, the university received £15.8 million in funding from carbon-intensive companies. In 2000, BP gave the university £22 million to establish a research centre. The vast sums of Read more…
The ideas of Karl Marx, summed up in writings like The Communist Manifesto and Capital, have stood the test of time. How many other books from 150 years ago are still able to interpret and explain the modern world? Most of the writings of Marx’s contemporaries are of historical interest Read more…
The Print, the student newspaper of Queen Mary, University of London, published a comment column attacking Jeremy Corbyn for his past comments in defence of the Bolivarian revolution in Venezuela, in its issue dated Wednesday 20 September. The column is light on facts, figures, and arguments – it’s mostly just Read more…
Three Marxist Student Federation and Socialist Appeal supporters attended a rally in support of the Catalan independence referendum on Thursday 27 September along with around thirty workers and youth from Spain, Catalonia and Britain. Standing in the shadow of the Spanish embassy, a fighting mood was on show, with speakers Read more…
Precarious employees of all stripes took to the streets yesterday in protest at the exploitative practices of the so-called gig economy. The event, hosted by the Independent Workers’ Union of Great Britain (IWGB), was billed as Britain’s “first ever march against precarious labour.” The demo coincided with a court appeal Read more…
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