Last Saturday, I and a few dozen other students from universities across the city gathered in the University College London main quad in preparation for a tour round the local area. These kind of events are common at the beginning of the academic year, providing new students with an opportunity to Read more…
This weekend Marxist students will be at the October Revolution festival in central London for a celebration of Marxist ideas 100 years after the Russian Revolution. See below for some taster videos for a few of the sessions at the festival. The full agenda is below. See you at the Read more…
Mr Rowland’s article ‘Das Krapital’ of 04/10/17 rings with the familiar unpleasant cynicism of the hard Right, as well as peddling some of the most tired, tepid and easily assailable criticisms of socialism to ever grace a page. Given its utterly paltry content, I’m simply going to deal with his Read more…
Karl Marx spent many years living and working in London. He spent part of that time living in Dean Street in Soho, just up the road from a flat in Chinatown that was once occupied by Frederick Engels. The First International, Marx’s revolutionary organisation, had its HQ in Soho. This Read more…
Since mid-September Marxist students all over Britain have been signing people up to join Marxist societies at their universities. In 2013 student supporters of Socialist Appeal decided to establish the Marxist Student Federation – a network of university Marxist societies that had been developing for several years. The Federation, and Read more…
Marxist students in Edinburgh and Glasgow got the term off to a great start last week with stalls at the freshers fairs and interesting meetings of the Marxist societies. Around 50 new people signed up to join the Revolution society in Edinburgh, and there were ten new faces at our Read more…
Within the context of already tense relations between students, academics and the management at the University of Warwick, the effective removal of provisions contained in statute 24 of the University’s constitution marks a new attack by the management on academia. What is this “statute 24” and what is its significance? Read more…
September 2017 marks the 150th anniversary since the first publication of “Das Kapital” – Karl Marx’s masterpiece of political economy. With this magnum opus, Marx revolutionised our understanding of the capitalist system, uncovering and explaining its inner processes and inherent contradictions. Following the financial crash of 2008, and with capitalism Read more…
The Socialist Appeal newspaper is now a fortnightly publication – a big step forward from the previous monthly setup. Marxist students, labour movement activists and comrades all over the country have been selling the paper on campuses and beyond. Have a look at the photos below. If you haven’t already, Read more…
The whole world is in the mist of turbulent convulsions. Capitalism as a system has exhausted itself and the capitalist politicians, academics and strategists have no solution to the problems faced by young people today. The case for international socialist revolution has never been clearer. In one country after another Read more…
On Monday 13 March Keelan Kellegher from the Cambridge Marxist society debated Peter Hitchens – notorious right-winger and Daily Mail columnist at a meeting of the Kings College Cambridge politics society. The debate was over a framed Soviet flag that hangs in the student bar at Kings College, Cambridge. Hitchens Read more…
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