Last weekend, young comrades from across the Marxist Student Federation gathered for an inspiring summer school on the life and ideas of Lenin. Marxism is on the march. There has never been a better time to join the struggle for socialism.
Support staff at Leeds University, organised in Unison, are on strike this week, fighting for decent pay. This is one of many struggles taking place on UK campuses, as workers and students mobilise against the marketisation of education. After 12 years of below-inflation pay, higher education (HE) staff organised in Read more…
The NUS (National Union of Students) called for a walkout on 2 March coinciding with the end of the latest round of UCU strikes. There were four demands for the walkout: full funding for education, accessible education, lifelong education, and democracy in the education system. We fully support these demands. Read more…
The last week has been extremely busy for the Leeds Marxist Society. We’ve been on the picket lines supporting lecturers and trying to build student solidarity with the 2nd March walkout. Here in Leeds, we have organised a demonstration on March 2nd to show University management that students are against Read more…
And we’re off, with the second day of strike action. Our comrades on the pickets have told us the mood is still energetic and workers and students are very angry. The success of the first day has spurred on the strikers. In Glasgow, our comrades were literally beating the drum Read more…
Considering this close relationship it’s no surprise that the British education system or at least the caricature of education that is the official curriculum also supports the concept of Zionism and defends the Israeli state from criticism wherever possible.
Comrades from the Leeds University Marxist Society attended last Saturday’s demo defending our NHS from the vicious attacks by the Tories. The NHS crisis is only another symptom of the crisis of the capitalist system. Austerity and privatisations are not ideological decisions, but organic necessities stemming from the impasse Read more…
The morning of February 17th 2017 saw two headlines concerning the Leeds University Union executive (LUU exec) in the local student press. The first bemoaned the year on year decline in turnout for the elections that see students run for sabbatical positions as union officers in the LUU exec (http://www.thegryphon.co.uk/2017/02/17/leadership-race-turnout-decreases/). Read more…