FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Marxist students push NUS to back Corbyn 18 April 2016, Brighton At the National Union of Students (NUS) conference in Brighton on 19-21 April 2016 a group of students affiliated to the Marxist Student Federation will move a motion demanding that the NUS support the mandatory re-selection Read more…
Since the Easter holidays 7,000 children have been denied their education due to the discovery that 10 primary, 5 secondary and 2 additional support schools, built on a PFI scheme are unsafe for the children and young people to be in. Not only has this left children and teenagers at Read more…
The Justice for Cleaners (J4C) movement, which began in 2006, has been a decade long struggle against exploitation and outsourcing by a multinational business, and a fight against being treated as second class workers at SOAS (School of Oriental and African Studies), University of London. The campaign is moving to Read more…
The demonstration and march organised by UCL Cut the Rent on Thursday 17th March was an overall success. In the quad, Max Rayne residents united with students from other halls of residence in order to protest against high student rents. Protesting students, joined by representatives of the media, marched on Read more…
In yet another act of contempt for public service workers, Osborne’s latest budget saw the Conservative government declare their plans to impose yet another change – the removal of all schools from local authority control, to become academies by 2020. Rightfully outraged, members of the National Union of Teachers (NUT) called Read more…
In today’s (16 March) budget George Osborne has promised that all schools in England will become independent of local authority control by 2022. This is an extension of the academy system, which has already been introduced in 2,075 out of 3,381 secondary schools and 2,440 of 16,766 primary schools in England. Academies Read more…
The statement below was passed through the Kent Marxist society last week. It marks the first step in a campaign against rent increases at the University of Kent. For more information about the campaign and to get involved please use the contact form below and check out the campaign’s Facebook Read more…
The changes to junior doctors contracts is the result of the crisis of capitalism that came dramatically to the surface in 2008 and has not be resolved since. The proposed changes to the contacts Four years after the question of NHS reform was originally raised the idea of a ‘7-day Read more…
According to the Guardian, the new chair of the Bar Council (the regulatory body for barristers) has suggested that the cost of becoming a barrister is up to £127,000 in various student fees. This extraordinary amount of money is not the only problem facing future barristers, since the poor job Read more…
Delegates from King’s College London will debate a motion opposing the practice of ‘blacklisting’ (denying work to unionists, activists and other ‘troublemakers’) by construction firms at the upcoming NUS conference. Should this motion pass, it will represent a qualitative development in our ‘Blacklist the Blacklisters’ campaign. Last year comrades from Read more…
Over 500 students have pledged to join the indefinite rent strike declared last month by 150 students at University College London (UCL), reflecting campus-wide concerns over soaring accommodation costs and students’ dissatisfaction with management’s response. Organised by UCL, Cut the Rent with support from the Radical Housing Network, the extension Read more…
According to reports from teachers in Wales, a generation of children and teenagers are being forced to learn in ‘deplorable conditions’. This demonstrates the real life effects of cuts to education and school building programs since 2010 in the UK. While the Welsh government claims that it will invest up Read more…
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