The Tory government has recently released it’s future plans for Universities in a ironically titled paper, ‘Fulfilling our Potential: Teaching Excellence, Social Mobility and Student Choice’. There are several key objectives which the government have their hearts set upon, number one being the introduction of higher variable fees. The Read more…
Labour Young Socialists held a London-wide rally yesterday evening, November 11, at which around 100 students and young workers assembled to discuss what left-wing youth should do now that Jeremy Corbyn is leader of the Labour Party. Unfortunately John McDonnell, who was due to address the rally, had to Read more…
Marxist students were out in force as part of the demonstration on Wednesday 4th November against tuition fees, against the scrapping of maintenance grants, and for free education. Marching behind a banner with the slogan “the system is broken – fight for revolution” and adorned with red flags, the MSF Read more…
Staff at the University of Manchester will be balloted for strike action by the University and College Union (UCU) after bosses at the university disregarded employment procedure. Instead of waiting for the current review of redeployment procedure to be completed, the university issued 37 at risk of redundancy notices, leading Read more…
Matt Rider from the Marxist Student Federation has been elected as a delegate to the national conference of the National Union of Students from the University of Swansea. Matt’s manifesto is below. The MSF aims to win the NUS round to revolutionary socialist ideas that will fight the Tories and the rotten Read more…
The Equality and Human Rights Commision (EHRC), a non-governmental public body established in 2006 with the aim of promoting and enforcing equality legislation in the UK, has released a report claiming that over the past five years, the economic prospects of Britain’s youth population have reached an all-time low. The Read more…
It seems obvious to say that education is a social good. In a rational society, in which the interests of the vast majority are met, school and university investment would be planned and free education delivered to all who want it. But we are not living in that Read more…
Below is a resolution of the Marxist Student Federation which is being discussed in Marxist societies all over the country this week. As Marxist students fighting tuition fee rises, privatisations and attacks on our living standards, the struggle of the South African students is a great inspiration to us. Their Read more…
Earlier this year an organisation called Select Property Group gave a massive £50,000 donation to the Conservative Party. One of this company’s main activities is building “luxury student developments” in places like Manchester, Liverpool, Exeter, Southampton and Bristol. The accommodation is rented out at between £200 and £230 per Read more…
The election of Jeremy Corbyn as leader of the Labour Party has transformed the face of politics in Britain. The question of socialism is no longer an abstract discussion. It is being posed concretely in discussions that are taking place up and down the country. What sort of programme Read more…
A recent petition that is part of the Defend Corbyn, Fight for Socialism campaign has been gathering support online and in public meetings. We publish below a selection of comments from people outraged at the way the media is treating Jeremy Corbyn – a shameless attempt by wealthy newspaper owners Read more…
The letter below is a response from the Sheffield Marxist society to this article written by the vice-chancellor of the University of Sheffield, in which he refers to Marxists as “dopey” and claims that Marxism “doesn’t work”. An open letter to Keith Burnett from the ‘dopey’ Marxists. We, as the Read more…
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