We aren’t born revolutionaries, we all come to revolutionary conclusions in different ways. This series is about how our comrades came to revolutionary politics.
Growing up I always considered myself a Marxist and was always vocal in criticising capitalism during lessons at school. My parents had struggled with four children and having to move around the country to find work. My childhood was quite austere in some respects and I could see how hard-working Read more…
Growing up in an old mining village, I have always been acutely aware of the effect Thatcherism had on Britain. Those around me would reminisce about how it used to be; a shop, a church, a train station and a pub all gave life to the area. But by Read more…
Like most young people of my generation, the first political event I was really aware of, at the age of nine, was the 2008 financial crash. The word “crisis” seemed to be everywhere, looming like a spectre over the news and the conversations my parents had. The crisis infected Read more…
All my life I have always said that in adulthood I want to help improve the world. Most of my teenage years were spent dreaming of going into wildlife conservation to defend animals against the environmental destruction caused by humans. Now I still have that same goal, but I am Read more…
The day I signed up to the Marxist Student Federation had a purely accidental character. What if I had chosen a university in another city? What if I had decided not to go to university at all? What would my politics be if I had never moved away from my Read more…
We’re all opposed to racism – but how do we get rid of it? To answer that we need to know where it comes from, so that we know how to fight it. Can we get rid of it within the confines of the capitalist system? Ravi has the answers.
For me, I only really became aware of politics in 2008, when the news became filled with a terrible crisis, people were in tears, news anchors in shock, experts in panic. People on the news had lost everything and arbitrary numbers appeared on screen with big downward signs. Unlike other Read more…
For as long as I can remember I’ve felt strongly about inequality and injustice, neither of which my parents tried to hide from me, and as a result I take seriously the repercussions of capitalist society and especially of climate change. It’s not enough just to recognise the problem – Read more…
This article is part of an international series on why young people have decided to join the fight against capitalism. Last year, on 2 July, I had to make one of the most important decisions of my life. I told the professionals at the NHS to turn off the life support Read more…