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Across the world governments of all shades are being forced by the crisis of capitalism to pursue policies of austerity and attacks on the working class. In Britain this has taken the form of real terms cuts to pay and welfare support; an increase in precarious employment and cuts to Read more…
As the new academic term gets underway in many universities, Marxist students have been at yet more freshers fairs signing up hundreds of students who are interested in building an organisation capable of fighting for socialist policies within the student movement. Below are reports from some of these freshers Read more…
Over the past couple of weeks Marxist students all over the country have been attending university freshers fairs and holding their first meetings of the term with hundreds of students who are eager to learn about the ideas of Marxism and their relevance to today’s world. Below are reports Read more…
The Chair of the Board of Directors of the Student Loans Company (SLC), Chris Brodie, was selected to preside over the first four University of Sussex graduation ceremonies on 8-11 July, as popular comedian and University Chancellor Sanjeev Bhaskar was unavailable due to filming commitments. The selection, made by Vice-Chancellor Read more…
The budget presented to Cambridge University Student Union (CUSU) Council for the academic year 2014-15 contains a glaring omission. Following the controversy over the salary of the General Manager of CUSU (an unelected member of staff at the Union) in October, you could be forgiven for assuming that the CUSU leadership Read more…
This week, in advance of the upcoming Euro elections, the Oxford Marxist Society hosted a meeting on the EU crisis and the socialist alternative. Twelve people attended the meeting and enjoyed an interesting discussion about the Marxist view of the EU. Arturo Zoffmann Rodriguez, member of the Oxford Marxist Society, gave the introduction Read more…
Day Three – Thursday 10 April 9:35am: Today has begun with reports from the “liberation” groups (black, disabled, LGBT and women) on the work they have been doing this year. Very few delegates have turned up to hear these reports. This is the inevitable product of separating the struggle for Read more…
On Thursday 20th March, we at the University of Manchester Marxist Society held a meeting on the 30th anniversary of the Miners’ Strike, with guest speaker and ex-miner John Dunn in attendance. As someone who is relatively new to the Marxist Society (having only become involved in Marxist politics at Read more…
University College London Union recently held spring elections for full-time and part-time positions to represent students. Standing in the elections were three members of the Marxist Student Federation and, whilst they did not win, by presenting a clear socialist perspective on student issues their campaign has shown that a real, Read more…
There is tension and anger in the air at SOAS – as well as in virtually every other university in the country. While students – having woken up from their temporary slumber – are starting to protest again against fees and privatisation of their debt, lecturers and regular members of Read more…
Thursday 6th February 2014 saw the third round of joint strike action between UCU, Unison, Unite and EIS in defence of their pay and conditions. While University Vice-Chancellors and senior managers are on six figure salaries and receiving pay increased of 8% this year, staff and lecturers have, since Read more…
The Sussex Marxist society made a promising start to the new year at the Sussex University Refreshers Fair on the 21st January. From our stall we advertised a range of theoretical material, collected contact details and handed out leaflets and other information to a large number of fellow students interested in revolutionary Read more…
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