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Over 300 young revolutionaries gravitate towards Cambridge Marxists

    On 5 November, Cambridge Marxist Society held its weekly meeting, this week focused on the topic of “Capitalism and Mental Health”. The meeting was attended by over 300 participants, with 340 in the call at its peak, which was an extraordinary number.   Participants tuned in from countries across Read more…

By Marxist Student, 2 years3 months ago

Cambridge Staff Defense Campaign Launched!

  Fight cuts and redundancies! Join the Cambridge Staff Defence Campaign!    University Layoffs At the start of the Covid-19 crisis in April this year, Stephen Toope, one of the country’s highest-paid Vice-Chancellors, informed university workers that ‘savings will need to be made’.  Now, the University is going on a Read more…

By Marxist Student, 2 years3 months ago

BREAKING: Cambridge occupied in solidarity with UCU strike

  A number of students including those of the Cambridge Marxist society have occupied Old Schools, the administrative hub of The University of Cambridge, in coordination with CDE and other groups of the left in solidarity with the UCU strike. They say: “We support the immediate demands put forward by Read more…

By Marxist Student, 2 years3 months ago

Conservatives in Cambridge celebrate white supremacism

In a remarkably honest admission on part of the Conservatives, they revealed their deep-rooted racism with the Cambridge University Conservative Association (CUCA) hosting the white supremacist, Denis Walker on 25 April. Walker was Minister for Education in Ian Smith’s white minority government in what was then Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe), a Read more…

By Marxist Student, 4 years3 months ago

BREAKING – Cambridge University Students Occupy Senate House in Support of UCU Strikes

In the last few hours, student activists have occupied Senate House and the Old Schools, the buildings that house the nucleus of Cambridge University’s administration, including the Vice Chancellor’s office. Among those students occupying the building are activists from the Marxist Student Federation.

By Marxist Student, 4 years3 months ago

Why we are standing on the picket line: a view from Cambridge Marxists

In Cambridge, we have witnessed all kinds of twists, turns, and contortions by those who have sought to justify scabbing on the inspiring strike action currently being taken by UCU members at the university. But cutting through the musk of vacuous excuses, self-serving assumptions and empty soundbites, there’s only one Read more…

By Marxist Student, 4 years3 months ago

In defence of the hammer and sickle: Cambridge Marxist debates Peter Hitchens

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…

By Marxist Student, 5 years3 months ago

Cambridge college students flock to Marxist society

We went to the Freshers Fair at Hills Road on Wednesday where there were three of us on the stall. We had about four and a half hours in total to sign people up to our Marxist society. Our stall was very small but the Revolution newspaper in particular attracted people. Read more…

By Marxist Student, 6 years3 months ago

Why won’t Cambridge University Student Union open its books?

  The budget presented to Cambridge University Student Union (CUSU) Council for the academic year 2014-15 contains a glaring omission. Following the controversy over the salary of the General Manager of CUSU (an unelected member of staff at the Union) in October, you could be forgiven for assuming that the CUSU leadership Read more…

By Marxist Student, 8 years3 months ago

The reality of low pay in Cambridge

Following recent revelations that over 1,000 employees of the University of Cambridge are earning below the living wage, one young worker got in touch to describe her experience of work in Cambridge. We publish her letter below. Of the three jobs I have worked in Cambridge, all have paid under Read more…

By Marxist Student, 8 years3 months ago

Cambridge University teams up with Saudi monarchy

Recently, Cambridge University signed a deal with the Saudi monarchy to establish a research centre KACST-Cambridge  (King Abdul Aziz City for Science and Technology – Cambridge Centre) dedicated to biological, chemical and engineering research. This is supposed to be the first physical site established outside the UK in Cambridge’s 800 year history. Read more…

By Marxist Student, 8 years3 months ago
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