Delegates from King’s College London will debate a motion opposing the practice of ‘blacklisting’ (denying work to unionists, activists and other ‘troublemakers’) by construction firms at the upcoming NUS conference. Should this motion pass, it will represent a qualitative development in our ‘Blacklist the Blacklisters’ campaign. Last year comrades from Read more…
This year’s Young Labour conference comes in the wake of the transformation in the Labour party that began last summer with the election of Jeremy Corbyn. An incredible enthusiasm for left wing ideas and a genuine interest in what it means to be a socialist has opened up in the Read more…
Over 500 students have pledged to join the indefinite rent strike declared last month by 150 students at University College London (UCL), reflecting campus-wide concerns over soaring accommodation costs and students’ dissatisfaction with management’s response. Organised by UCL, Cut the Rent with support from the Radical Housing Network, the extension Read more…
On Saturday 27th February, tens of thousands of trade unionists, youth, and local activists gathered in London for Britain’s largest anti-nuclear demonstration in a generation, organised by the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament. The Marxist Student Federation was present with a lively bloc near the front of the demo, alongside Socialist Appeal Read more…
In these talks from the Marxist Student Federation National Conference 2016 “The Road to Revolution”, revolutionaries look at what demands Marxists should be raising in the Corbyn movement and beyond. Joe Attard of the KCL Marxist society and KCL UCU branch introduced the discussions by outlining the contradictions and crisis Read more…
According to reports from teachers in Wales, a generation of children and teenagers are being forced to learn in ‘deplorable conditions’. This demonstrates the real life effects of cuts to education and school building programs since 2010 in the UK. While the Welsh government claims that it will invest up Read more…
This leaflet may be downloaded as a PDF here ================================================================================================ Join the Marxist Student Federation on Saturday 27 February when we will be part of the youth and student bloc on the CND demo to stop Trident. Assemble at Marble Arch at midday for a march to Trafalgar Square where there Read more…
In the past year, a quarter of a million students in the UK are said to have signed up to become “sugar babies”, a marketing euphemism referring to those who are paid for their company by rich “sugar mummies and daddies”. According to the annual review of SeekingArrangement.com, which was Read more…
University vice-chancellors’ average salaries ballooned to £272,000 last year, a £12,000 increase on 2014. Freedom of Information requests by the University and Colleges Union (UCU) uncovered these “inflation-busting” pay packages, along with additional data on expenses that reveal the lavish lifestyles enjoyed by fatcats leeching off the university sector. The UCU Read more…
The resolution below, supporting the rent strike taking place at UCL, was passed unanimously by the Marxist Student Federation conference last weekend. In addition we publish below a policy motion on housing that has been submitted to the Young Labour national conference by a group of Marxists. Please get in Read more…
Last week comrades in the Marxist Society and supporters of the Socialist Appeal newspaper proposed a motion to the Hyde Park and Woodhouse Labour Party ward in Leeds Central CLP (Hilary Benn’s constituency) strongly condemning the bombing of Syria. After being amended it passed with a strong majority and is now Read more…
The resolution below was submitted by a medical student and socialist society member at the University of East Anglia for discussion at the BMA Medical Students conference in April. Its content is particularly timely given the ongoing struggle of junior doctors and the recent cuts to grants faced by student nurses. If Read more…
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