Earlier this week we reported on Marxist student comrades winning NUS elections at UEA, SOAS and Sheffield University. We are pleased to report that Josh, Erin, Lily and Nico will be joined by Nick and Dora from UCL at the NUS Conference in Glasgow in April! Nick Oung, Dora Read more…
Across the country Marxist Students have been running campaigns to be elected as delegates to the national conference of the National Union of Students (NUS) which will be taking place in Glasgow in April 2019. We started off in the University of East Anglia where three comrades ran on Read more…
Once again, this autumn, Marxist students have been out and about on campuses up and down the country signing up eager students to university Marxist societies. This year has been the most successful year yet for the Marxist Student Federation, with thousands signing up to join societies across 33 Read more…
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…
Sir Christopher Snowden, the vice-chancellor of Southampton University, recently announced that he would be retiring in the spring of 2019. Of course, the usual rhetoric from the university establishment erupted, praising his ‘tremendous contribution to and passion for Southampton’ and a ‘relentless drive to create the highest quality education Read more…
“I am going to lose £700. Travel card expenses to and from work cost me £98. No childcare. I support my three children back home (overseas). I can’t afford rent and bills with this change.” “The change in hours could force me to quit, doing so would make me Read more…
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…
It was announced last week that Prof Koen Lamberts will become the University of Sheffield’s new Vice-Chancellor. Of course, the decision was made without the involvement of workers or students. Lamberts is one of many senior careerists within higher education who slinks from one cushy position to another. During Read more…
The endeavour to establish a brand new Marxist society at Nottingham University has been greeted with enthusiasm from many students, eager to have a society to discuss Marxist ideas and organise Marxist students. At least twenty-five students have already signed up to join the society, the number required to set Read more…
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…
A recent article on the Warwick Tab has attacked the newly elected left-wing presidents of Warwick Labour, Fraser Amos, and Warwick Pride, Ky Andrea, over tweets about LGBT Tories. The “offending” tweets by the President of Warwick Pride say, “Tory Gays F*** off,” and “Tory Gays go home”, whilst Fraser Read more…
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…
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