Marx wasn’t born a Marxist, many different things pull people towards Marxist ideas or inspire them think in a certain way. Learn about different inspirations for Marxist students.
After a great campaign across campus and on social media Fiona Lali, President of the SOAS Marxist society, has been elected to represent SOAS students at the national conference of the National Union of Students (NUS) later in the year. Fiona ran her campaign on an openly Marxist manifesto, calling 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…
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…
Hillary Clinton, the supposed advocate for “children’s human rights around the world”, will soon be awarded an honorary doctorate by Swansea University, and shamefully have the Law School named after her. Many students are concerned by this development – what does she really represent? If one scratches the surface of Read more…
For me, I only really became aware of politics in 2008, when the news became filled with a terrible crisis, people were in tears, news anchors in shock, experts in panic. People on the news had lost everything and arbitrary numbers appeared on screen with big downward signs. Unlike other 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…
For as long as I can remember I’ve felt strongly about inequality and injustice, neither of which my parents tried to hide from me, and as a result I take seriously the repercussions of capitalist society and especially of climate change. It’s not enough just to recognise the problem – Read more…
In a recent speech, the Vice Chancellor of Oxford University accused the ‘mendacious media’ and ‘tawdry politicians’ of trying to tarnish the reputation of the higher education sector by pointing out the hypocrisy of her pay rises. Of course, it was a disaster of a speech all round, with the Read more…
This article is part of an international series on why young people have decided to join the fight against capitalism. Last year, on 2 July, I had to make one of the most important decisions of my life. I told the professionals at the NHS to turn off the life support Read more…
In a historic victory, Justice for Workers at SOAS have spent the last week celebrating what has been a decade of struggle to bring all outsourced staff at SOAS in house.
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…
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