Franklin Qiao from the UCLU Marxist society recently ran on a Marxist platform for the position of delegate to the National Union of Students. Franklin’s ideas would transform the NUS from a distant bureaucratic machine into a fighting students’ union. Unfortunately Franklin did not win election this time around Read more…
The NUS and UCU have called a demo on 19 November – we’ll be there, united for education. Due to the crisis of capitalism, our generation faces a future worse than our parents. With sky-high fees and extortionate rents, higher education is increasingly becoming the preserve of the rich. Further Read more…
Throughout the month of September, Socialist Fightback clubs at UVic, UofT, Ryerson, York U and Seneca, Trent Durham, McMaster, Waterloo, UdeM, Concordia, and McGill, engaged with hundreds of students interested in Marxist ideas during the frosh campus club days and street festivals. In total, over 1000 students expressed interest in Read more…
[Today thousands of youth and students will take to the streets to protest against the government’s attacks on education and the student grant (SU). The article below is from REVOLT, the English magazine of Revolutionære Socialister – IMT in Denmark] The Danish government has recently presented its 2025 plan, and as Read more…
Staff at London Metropolitan university have been on strike over the appalling attacks on education being carried out by university management. I interviewed the local branch secretary of the University and College Union (UCU) on the picket line. So, what do you do at the university? I teach Read more…
Revolution, the youth paper of the International Marxist Tendency, met up with a representative of the Bursary or Bust campaign to discuss the terrible conditions faced by student nurses in Britain, who have lost their NHS bursary to Tory austerity measures. With this financial lifeline cut and further junior doctors’ strikes Read more…
It becomes increasingly clear that capitalism is not and never will provide a future for young people today. Many young people find themselves bearing the brunt of attacks from the ruling class on the rights of workers and their families. People aged 16 – 24 are three times more Read more…
Marxist students have been hard at work all over the country signing people up to Marxist societies at the university freshers fairs. Here are a few reports of what we’ve been up to. Manchester The Manchester ‘Welcome Fair’ was very successful for the MarxSoc. Over 200 signed up to the Read more…
Many students at Edinburgh Napier freshers fair showed an interest in the ideas of Marxism yesterday. Ideas such as a National Education Service, free education, a living rent and price controls on food, beer, cider, spirits, toiletries and a fight for a socialist future the students need and deserve, all Read more…
The Tories are planning to cut funding for colleges that train apprentices by up to 50% next year, with the bulk of the cuts falling in the most deprived areas. The most popular apprenticeships for 16-18 year olds, in business administration and construction, are being cut by anywhere between 27% Read more…
As many of you will know this last week it was A-level results day, the day of the year when prospective students get results that determine in many ways their futures, will they be going to university? Will they will be straddled with a lifetime of student debt? Will university Read more…
From 11 to 15 July the Unite the Union policy conference is meeting in Brighton. The conference of Britain’s largest trade union comes at a critical time for developments in the Labour party and defending Jeremy Corbyn against the Blairite coup attempt should be top of delegates’ agenda. Important questions Read more…
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