The Marxist Student Federation (MSF) now represents the strongest and most active student Marxists in Britain. This presents us with an important lesson, to produce and educate new Marxists up and down the country. Here is a report showing the strength of our first few weeks on campus this year!
We have now hit every freshers’ fair we could, spoken to thousands of people about the ideas of Marxism and shown them how to fight against capitalism. This has been a highly inspiring period for us. We have seen the thirst for communist ideas which exists amongst students.
The previous week of #CommunismOnCampus has been huge for us! We intervened in 20 freshers’ fairs. From Durham to Southampton and Loughborough to Manchester Metropolitan, we signed up hundreds of students to the Marxist Societies.
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.
On May 4th, the University of Sheffield and the Sheffield Hallam Marxist Societies held a joint meeting on the history and lessons of May 68. We had a dozen people there, including many who had not been involved in the Marxist Societies before. The discussion was fantastic,with the speaker highlighting Read more…
Marxist Societies across the country actively participated in the latest UCU strike action in March.
Despite horrible weather 300 Sheffield students and staff rallied together on March 2nd to call for free education, funded by the government, with proper pay, pensions and conditions for all workers. The local Marxist societies had taken a lead in building for these strikes, rallying together student activists from across Read more…
The Archaeology department and the Schools of Languages and Cultures (SLC) at the University of Sheffield fight for their future. The scandal ridden review process of the Archaeology department highlights the need for democratic control of universities. The University Executive Board (UEB) has been lying to students, disposed of meeting Read more…
With the current political, economic and constitutional crisis gripping the country, young people are increasingly seeking radical youth-led movements to begin to challenge 40 years of Neoliberalism which has left our generation worse off than our parents, saddled with debt and in precarious work all while having to tackle the Read more…
In the first six weeks of this academic year Sheffield Labour Students (SLS) society at the University of Sheffield has experienced mass-resignations from their left-wing committee and cancelled an event involving Chris Williamson MP. Now less than half of the committee positions are filled and SLS are in danger 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…