The Marxist society at KCL just carried the following resolution unanimously, and took a photo showing our support. Every society should do the same ?! KCL Marx Soc resolution: Justice for KCL Cleaners! The KCL Marxist Society notes: King’s College London cleaning staff are employed by the contractor Servest, under whom Read more…
Corbyn’s Labour Party have tabled a motion to lower the voting age to 16. The key reason for tabling such a motion, and for Theresa May opposing it, is that the last election saw two-thirds of 18 to 24-year–olds support the Labour Party, with turnout for the age bracket skyrocketing Read more…
On 24 October Liverpool Marxist Society met and voted to endorse Gilly Singh as the Marxist Candidate for the upcoming elections for delegates to NUS national conference from The Guild of Students at University of Liverpool. Below you will find a statement written by him on why he is running Read more…
On Thursday 19th October around 40 students met with cleaning staff and Unison reps to launch the campaign Kings College London Justice for Cleaners. Inspired by successful campaigns at LSE and SOAS, the campaign aims to bring KCL cleaning back ‘in house’ rather than being outsourced to Servest, and to Read more…
Cambridge University invests more than £370 million in fossil fuels and has close ties with oil and energy companies. Between 2009 and 2014, the university received £15.8 million in funding from carbon-intensive companies. In 2000, BP gave the university £22 million to establish a research centre. The vast sums of Read more…
Since mid-September Marxist students all over Britain have been signing people up to join Marxist societies at their universities. In 2013 student supporters of Socialist Appeal decided to establish the Marxist Student Federation – a network of university Marxist societies that had been developing for several years. The Federation, and Read more…
Hillary Clinton, the supposed advocate for “children’s human rights around the world”, will soon be awarded an honorary doctorate by Swansea University, and shamefully have the Law School named after her. Many students are concerned by this development – what does she really represent? If one scratches the surface of Read more…
Precarious employees of all stripes took to the streets yesterday in protest at the exploitative practices of the so-called gig economy. The event, hosted by the Independent Workers’ Union of Great Britain (IWGB), was billed as Britain’s “first ever march against precarious labour.” The demo coincided with a court appeal Read more…
The fight for equality and an end to oppression is too important for confused ideas and fashionable posturing. In the Democratic Republic of Congo 1,152 women are raped every day – equivalent to 48 every hour (American Journal of Public Health), and 40% of women in the east of the Read more…
Dear Adrian Smith, I am writing to express my support for the Independent Workers’ Union of Great Britain’s (IWGB) “Back in House” campaign. I urge you to agree to their demands that outsourced workers – including cleaners, post room workers, security officers, receptionists and porters – be made in-house, that the university implement Read more…
Last week it was reported that the Vice-Chancellor of the University of Bath lives a life of extreme luxury. She earns £451,000 per year and is the highest paid Vice-Chancellor in the country. She lives for free in a five-bedroom Georgian apartment, provided by the university, where the university pays Read more…
A Sutton Trust study published last week has shown that 48% of 11-16 year olds in London have had private tuition in addition to their regular schooling. This is the unacceptable reality of inequality in Britain, and especially London today. Pupils with parents rich enough to pay for extra tuition Read more…
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