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KCL

London UCU march – a fighting mood!

As part of the national UCU strike, UCU London region organised a rally and demo starting at Tavistock Square on Tuesday afternoon. Over 400 UCU members and students gathered to protest for fair and equal pay, an end to pension robbery, manageable workloads, and call for the end of casualisation. Read more…

By Marxist Student, 3 months ago

KCL Marxists organise alternate student assembly

KCL Marxist Society organised to be on the UCU pickets every day this week. We believe that it is important to show the lecturers that they have student solidarity and to bring our political ideas to these strikes.  We have been involved in teach outs, talking about revolutionary ideas. Lecturers Read more…

By Marxist Student, 3 months3 months ago

KCL: Interview with the UCU committee president!

Here is KCL UCU committee president Dr Ewan McGaughey talking with comrades about the strikes last term. The socio-economic conditions of workers, being attacked and threatened by the capitalists in charge of OUR university are making workers draw radical and revolutionary conclusions. Now is the time to fight back and Read more…

By Marxist Student, 3 months3 months ago

Tuition fees hit the poorest hardest: a reply to KCL’s director of social mobility

On Sunday, 20 January 2019, the Guardian published an opinion piece by Anne-Marie Canning, the Director of Social Mobility and Student Success at KCL, in which she asserted that cutting tuition fees would mean “shut[ing] the door to poor students”. Her paradoxical argument rests on the fact that, since the Read more…

By Marxist Student, 3 years3 months ago

Which way forward for outsourced workers at KCL?

After successes at the London School of Economics (LSE), Kings College London (KCL), the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS) and others, outsourced workers at London universities are proving that determined and militant campaigns get results. Strike action, demonstrations, and student solidarity have forced university management to agree to Read more…

By Marxist Student, 3 years3 months ago

KCL attempts to split workers in face of UCU ballot

  King’s College London management recently announced the pay rises its workforce could look forward to come the new academic year. Basing itself on the outrageous 2% UCEA (Universities and Colleges’ Employers Association) offer, over which UCU is currently balloting its members for industrial action, King’s announced that staff at Read more…

By Marxist Student, 4 years3 months ago

KCL upholding freedom of expression…by restricting freedom of protest

  The principal of King’s College London has contacted all students warning that respect for “freedom of expression” will be upheld at the university ­– through curtailment of the right to protest. The university’s new measures to ‘promote free speech’ implicitly reference a recent incident that occurred during a lecture Read more…

By Marxist Student, 4 years3 months ago

Students and workers grill KCL management – the fight goes on

As strike action at King’s College London enters its final week, student occupiers, together with representatives from Unison and the UCU, held an open meeting with the university bosses. An occupation has been on-going at King’s for five days, jointly in solidarity with lecturers striking over pensions and cleaners demanding Read more…

By Marxist Student, 4 years3 months ago

Picket line analysis from Southampton, Leicester, and KCL

Southampton At Southampton we have witnessed attacks by the Vice-Chancellor on our education since he arrived 3 years ago. He first attacked the support staff at halls accommodation, then cleaners and security and most recently in November announcing cuts to lecturers and a restructuring of the university. In response to Read more…

By Marxist Student, 4 years3 months ago

KCL Marxist debates Tory and Lib Dem over the Royal family, North Korea, and free education

KCL Marxist Joe Attard debated a Tory and the president of the KCL Lib Dem society on student radio last week. The issues involved were the Royal family, North Korea, and student tuition fees. Listen to the recording below:

By Marxist Student, 4 years3 months ago

KCL Justice For Cleaners: the fight goes on!

On Friday 24 November, the cleaners of King’s College London, alongside 40 sympathisers and supporters, met to discuss the next steps in their struggle to be brought back in house and achieve better working conditions. Like many other universities, King’s has contracted out its cleaning services. The cleaners are therefore Read more…

By Marxist Student, 4 years3 months ago

KCL Marxist Society resolution: justice for KCL cleaners!

The Marxist society at KCL just carried the following resolution unanimously, and took a photo showing our support. Every society should do the same ?! KCL Marx Soc resolution: Justice for KCL Cleaners! The KCL Marxist Society notes: King’s College London cleaning staff are employed by the contractor Servest, under whom Read more…

By Marxist Student, 5 years3 months ago

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