Drivers of Suttons Tankers at the Eastham refinery, near Ellesmere Port, have begun an indefinite strike in their fight against attacks on their wages, terms and conditions. On 18 December the management of Suttons Tankers served the 33 workers at the refinery with a 30-day consultation notice. In a move Read more…
In the midst of the ongoing Brexit chaos students may be wondering what is going to happen to their European friends and colleagues. Will we retain the same rights? Will we be still considered equal? Well, let’s be clear: our rights were never “equal” in the first place. Yes, we Read more…
KCL Marxist Joe Attard debated a Tory and the president of the KCL Lib Dem society on student radio last week. The issues involved were the Royal family, North Korea, and student tuition fees. Listen to the recording below:
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…
Cleaners who work in six different schools in Hackney, London have been refused holiday pay at the legal rate. These 42 school cleaners are already some of the lowest paid workers, and yet their employer has not only refused to pay proper holiday pay, but has also refused to discuss Read more…
Since September Marxist students have been running campaigns to get elected as delegates to the national conference of the National Union of Students (NUS) which is taking place in Glasgow at the end of March 2018. The term was kicked off with a campaign at the School of Oriental and Read more…
A Unison-led demonstration was held outside King’s College London on Friday 1 December as part of an on-going campaign to bring the university’s cleaning staff in-house. King’s cleaners, who are currently outsourced to a contractor called Servest, endure miserly wages; fewer days of paid holiday; and limited sick pay, maternity Read more…
After an enthusiastic campaign, the “Left Opposition” slate in Swansea, comprising Marxist Society members, managed to win one delegate to the national conference of the National Union of Students. This was the largest and best organised Marxist campaign for such an election that has taken place in Swansea University in Read more…
On Friday 24 November, the cleaners of King’s College London, alongside 40 sympathisers and supporters, met to discuss the next steps in their struggle to be brought back in house and achieve better working conditions. Like many other universities, King’s has contracted out its cleaning services. The cleaners are therefore Read more…
On 14th November, the Vice-Chancellor announced a ten-year plan of “restructuring” for the future of Southampton University, merging eight university departments into five. This is claimed to be a move to improve the uni’s standing in the league tables. This in practice just amounts to smudging numbers and statistics around Read more…
On Tuesday 21st November, SOAS Marxist society and Socialist Appeal supporters, along with several hundred other demonstrators, attended the protest called by the Independent Workers of Great Britain (IWGB) University of London branch in support of bringing outsourced workers at the Senate House back in-house. The demonstration was lively Read more…
A couple of weeks ago Warwick Students’ Union announced that after working with university management they had negotiated a decrease in the planned rent rise of 3% in the cheaper accommodation, down to 2.56%. And they had managed to keep rent rises in a few other blocks in line with Read more…
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