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Last year the Nottingham Marxist Society was bureaucratically blocked from affiliating to the Student Union. This year however, an anti-abortion society has been approved. The Marxists based our society application on getting support and sign-ups from students on campus, who wanted to join the Marxist society. The SU decided Read more…
Recently the University of Warwick announced that it would implement a new scheme for disadvantaged students from around the West Midlands region. The scheme, named “Warwick Scholars’, would cost £10 million a year and is aimed at improving the admissions prospects of talented students who live in deprived areas Read more…
Gagging orders are defined as a prevention of public disclosure on information of a controversial or sensitive matter. In April, universities were investigated, and it was found that Cardiff University spends, on average, nearly £8 million annually on gagging orders. Gagging orders are usually used to prevent disclosure of Read more…
In the recent period the ruling class in Britain have weaponised anti-Semitism allegations to smear the Corbyn-led Labour Party as “institutionally antisemitic”. Despite less than 0.1% of Labour Party members being the subject of complaints about antisemitism that were upheld, Labour has been painted hysterically as an “existential threat” Read more…
At Newcastle University the Marxist Society is the most active group on the left and is fast becoming the reference point for students. This has been achieved by hosting weekly theoretical discussions as well as intervening in demonstrations and labour movement events locally, and was further bolstered by a Read more…
This year, the National Union of Students (NUS) is meeting during a landmark moment in its history. The main issue at hand is the bankruptcy facing the union, which the leadership is trying to avoid through vicious cuts to what little democracy remains in this organisation. 50% of its Read more…
SOAS is currently undergoing an intense re-structuring. With a £7.1m gap in the budget, the dire financial crisis at SOAS is no secret. According to a report commissioned by UNISON and UCU Execs, the school is facing “an existential crisis”. Throughout the entire restructuring process, higher management have isolated Read more…
The occupation at Goldsmiths has entered its 11th day. On 12th March, students occupied Deptford Town Hall in protest at the university’s handling of continued racist incidents on campus. Throughout the occupation, what has remained clear is that management doesn’t care about students – especially students of colour. Goldsmiths Read more…
A number of students from the ‘Goldsmiths Anti-Racist Action’ campaign have occupied the Deptford Town Hall campus building since 12 March in protest at the pitiful response from university management and the student union leadership at the racist abuse of a candidate in the recent student officer election. Hamna Imran Read more…
From the Liverpool Marxist society Facebook Page: We organised a meeting tonight (12th Feb 2019), on Liverpool University Campus, with the aim of having an open, respectful discussion on the situation in Venezuela. 10-12 Supporters of the Venezuelan opposition of Juan Guaido came to the meeting with the express purpose 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…
On Sunday, 20 January 2019, the Guardian published an opinion piece by Anne-Marie Canning, the Director of Social Mobility and Student Success at KCL, in which she asserted that cutting tuition fees would mean “shut[ing] the door to poor students”. Her paradoxical argument rests on the fact that, since the Read more…
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