JUSTICE FOR RASH – 20 year old killed by police in Dalston
A 20-year old black man died after being thrown to the ground and left unable to breathe by police on Kingsland Road in Dalston, London on Saturday. The whole incident has been captured on CCTV in the shop into which the man ran, trying to escape the police. The footage Read more…
‘Why does no-one like me?’ wonders young Tory
Over the weekend the Independent published this article by a “young free-marketeer” complaining that too many young people support socialism and, as someone who presumably enjoys seeing poor people having their benefits cut and the NHS being driven into the dirt, she’s feeling a bit left out. Young people like Read more…
UCL rent strikers win £1.5 million – SAM TOLLITT, UCLU MARXISTS
This July, the ‘Cut the Rent’ campaign at University College London (UCL) announced that students had secured major concessions from management for university accommodation rents. This follows a five month long rent strike in which 200 students living at UCL halls of residence withheld rents ranging from £156 to £276 Read more…
Marxist camp celebrating the centenary of the Russian Revolution – SHARON MAYREN PADILLA in Mexico
On 8-9 July, the comrades of Juventudes Marxistas (Marxist Youth) and Izquierda Socialista (Socialist Left) organised a camp to celebrate the centenary of the Russian Revolution of 1917, an historic event which showed the potential of the working class to take power, eradicate oppression and build an alternative to capitalist Read more…
Students and staff suffer as Osborne gets into bed with Manchester uni
The University of Manchester (UoM) plans to cut 171 jobs, including those of 140 academic staff (leaving up to 1000 staff uncertain about their future) and Manchester Metropolitan University (MMU) plans the closure of their Crew Campus (leading to a further 160 job losses). The staff cuts will affect the Read more…
The BBC is biased – JED BIRCH
The head of BBC Westminster has just gone to work for Theresa May. Another door revolves in the corridors of power. Never listen to BS about how the BBC is unbiased – it’s no more so than Gideon Osborne’s Evening Standard. There is no objectivity, only whose side are you on, Read more…
[Video] Myths of Marxism: is Scandinavian-style socialism an alternative to capitalism?
Lots of people, including Bernie Sanders and other Left figures, seem to think that Scandinavian-style “socialism” is an alternative to capitalism. Lotta Angantyr, from the Revolution newspaper in Sweden, sets the record straight.
