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…
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:
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…
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…
On Thursday 19th October around 40 students met with cleaning staff and Unison reps to launch the campaign Kings College London Justice for Cleaners. Inspired by successful campaigns at LSE and SOAS, the campaign aims to bring KCL cleaning back ‘in house’ rather than being outsourced to Servest, and to Read more…
A Marxist Student Federation member came a respectable second in the King’s College London student union elections, which concluded last week. Running on an openly socialist programme, Joe Attard of the KCL Marxist Society received 500 votes (compared to 700 for the winning candidate) from fellow students and postgraduate TA Read more…
Voting has now begun for elections to the Kings College London Student Union (KCLSU) sabbatical positions. Joe Attard, President of the KCL Marxist Society, is standing for the position of vice president for postgraduate students on a political and socialist platform. Here’s Joe’s manifesto. Postgrads and workers: unite and fight! A vote Read more…
The Marxist Student Federation offers its solidarity with Unison comrades at King’s College London, who have just voted overwhelmingly for strike action against their private-sector employers, Servest. Much of the university’s non-academic workforce has been privatised and sold off to parasitical firms like Servest, who abuse their workforces with impunity Read more…
Yesterday the college council met to decide whether it will engage with the Tories’ Teaching Excellence Framework, which will allow ‘high performing’ universities to raise their fees in line with inflation. The KCL Marxist society joined a small protest outside the meeting, demanding that education be defended. Why we oppose the Read more…
Delegates from King’s College London will debate a motion opposing the practice of ‘blacklisting’ (denying work to unionists, activists and other ‘troublemakers’) by construction firms at the upcoming NUS conference. Should this motion pass, it will represent a qualitative development in our ‘Blacklist the Blacklisters’ campaign. Last year comrades from Read more…
For Free Education: Defend Corbyn, Fight For Socialism! Education is a public good that should be free to all The NUS can do more to fight for free education An end to cuts and to the social gentrification of our university sector Jeremy Corbyn to power in 2020 on a Read more…
Marxist Students have lent their support and solidarity to a campaign at King’s College London (KCL) fighting to achieve fair pay and reasonable working conditions for part-time student staff. General Teaching Assistants (GTAs) are widely-exploited by university management as a source of cheap labour, being saddled with complex duties including marking, Read more…
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