The National Union of Students (NUS) is sharply divided. The election of Malia Bouattia as NUS President at the last national conference of the union was heralded as a victory for the “Left”. The NUS has since held a joint demo with the UCU union and come out in support Read more…
A demo was held at UCL on Tuesday to protest the government’s impending Higher Education reforms. Under the slogan “Grants not debt”, a group of students, union officials, and activists voiced their discontent across the campus with the direction in which our university system is heading. The ‘Teaching Excellence Read more…
Recent elections at Durham University resulted in a victory for Tom Harwood, a radical right-winger, as one of four delegates to NUS Conference next year. His campaign was built on parodying and mocking the politics of the Left, describing them as “irrelevant, grandstanding, self-aggrandizing, self-defeating” and pledging to singlehandedly Read more…
In the early hours of Friday morning Warwick For Free Education took control of Warwick University’s new £5.3 million Slate building in protest against further attacks on both students and staff by the University. The three key demands are: For the university to oppose the Teaching Excellence Framework (TEF), which Read more…
Dozens of UNISON comrades were out in force in front of King’s College London on Friday with placards and banners to protest the abuse and exploitation of cleaning staff at the university. Cleaners at King’s College London have just received the worst ever Christmas present: individual letters warning that Read more…
Yesterday the college council met to decide whether it will engage with the Tories’ Teaching Excellence Framework, which will allow ‘high performing’ universities to raise their fees in line with inflation. The KCL Marxist society joined a small protest outside the meeting, demanding that education be defended. Why we oppose the Read more…
This Wednesday morning, comrades from Newcastle Marxist Society made their way to County Durham to show solidarity with the striking teaching assistants. We got a bus through from Newcastle which sadly, due to poor weather, meant we arrived a little too late to join the picket line at East Stanley Read more…
Today and tomorrow teaching assistants involved in a dispute with Durham County Council will be on strike over the question of pay cuts. This follows on from previous days of strike action earlier in the month. Here is a report on the struggle so far. And below is a report Read more…
The Marxist Student Federation marched alongside thousands of other students and workers on 19 November to defend education. Read the full report by Sarah and Rosie from Manchester here. See below for pictures and a video of the demo
Lecturers are being balloted for strike action at the University of Aberdeen after 15 members of staff were threatened with redundancy as part of the University’s bid to make savings. One of the UCU (University and College Union) reps at Aberdeen, Derek Dawson said “Nobody wants to take industrial Read more…
The Nation Union of Students (NUS) and University and Colleges Union (UCU) have called a demo on 19 November – we’ll be there, united for education. The demo has been called to defend education against cuts, privatisations and marketization. Recently there have been endless attacks on bursaries, grants, teaching standards, lecturer’s pay, Read more…
The Southampton Marxist society has written an article for the Wessex Scene, the local student newspaper in Southampton. The full article can be found here and some key excerpts from it are below. Students across the country have already devised ways of fighting back against the exploitation of their rent. With Read more…
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