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.
University workers across the country are taking action against a savage attack on their pensions. Their union, the UCU, has called some of the most militant action ever taken in the sector, organising two weeks of strike days in March. In order to understand the nature of the attacks on Read more…
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…
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…
In an all-student vote of Southampton University Students’ Union which closed earlier this month, 90.6 % of the 2,335 students who took part said they believed the pay of the Vice-Chancellor of Southampton University should be cut, and 92.4 % agreed that staff cuts (part of the university’s latest plans) 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:
A loud and passionate protest was held by students at UCL on Wednesday 6 December to demand increased funding for the university’s mental health service – the Student Psychological Services (SPS). The demonstration was called by the student- run campaign UCL: Fund Our Mental Health Services, and coincided with UCL’s Open Read more…
After an enthusiastic campaign, the “Left Opposition” slate in Swansea, comprising Marxist Society members, managed to win one delegate to the national conference of the National Union of Students. This was the largest and best organised Marxist campaign for such an election that has taken place in Swansea University in Read more…
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…
On 14th November, the Vice-Chancellor announced a ten-year plan of “restructuring” for the future of Southampton University, merging eight university departments into five. This is claimed to be a move to improve the uni’s standing in the league tables. This in practice just amounts to smudging numbers and statistics around Read more…
A couple of weeks ago Warwick Students’ Union announced that after working with university management they had negotiated a decrease in the planned rent rise of 3% in the cheaper accommodation, down to 2.56%. And they had managed to keep rent rises in a few other blocks in line with 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…
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