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.
As part of the national UCU strike, UCU London region organised a rally and demo starting at Tavistock Square on Tuesday afternoon. Over 400 UCU members and students gathered to protest for fair and equal pay, an end to pension robbery, manageable workloads, and call for the end of casualisation. 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…
UCL Unison have recently launched a campaign to bring outsourced cleaning, catering and security staff back in house under the same conditions as staff directly employed by UCL, under the slogan #BringThemIn. The campaign has also received support from UCL Labour Society. This comes as a welcome development following efforts Read more…
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…
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…
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…
This July, the ‘Cut the Rent’ campaign at University College London (UCL) announced that students had secured major concessions from management for university accommodation rents. This follows a five month long rent strike in which 200 students living at UCL halls of residence withheld rents ranging from £156 to £276 Read more…
A demo was held at UCL on Tuesday to protest the government’s impending Higher Education reforms. Under the slogan “Grants not debt”, a group of students, union officials, and activists voiced their discontent across the campus with the direction in which our university system is heading. The ‘Teaching Excellence Read more…
The demonstration and march organised by UCL Cut the Rent on Thursday 17th March was an overall success. In the quad, Max Rayne residents united with students from other halls of residence in order to protest against high student rents. Protesting students, joined by representatives of the media, marched on Read more…
Over 500 students have pledged to join the indefinite rent strike declared last month by 150 students at University College London (UCL), reflecting campus-wide concerns over soaring accommodation costs and students’ dissatisfaction with management’s response. Organised by UCL, Cut the Rent with support from the Radical Housing Network, the extension Read more…
The last General Assembly that was held before the christmas break was attended by almost 600 students, one of the biggest attendances for years for such an event. The biggest question concerning those participating was the merging of some sabbatical officers’ positions such as the women’s officer and the Read more…