Last week, Open University staff in Cambridge took to the streets in reaction to government plans to close down several regional centres. UCU (University and College Union) members from Manchester, Cambridge, Belfast, Edinburgh and Cardiff – to name but a few of the cities that will see strike action in Read more…
“We’re all middle class now” proclaimed John Prescott in 1997 to the agreement of a great many. Of course, this statement glossed over issues such as homelessness, low pay in an age before the minimum wage, and the shattered communities unable to rebuild after Thatcher’s savage deindustrialisation. But this Read more…
The Conservatives’ ‘Long Term Economic Plan’ grinds into its sixth year and the crisis of capitalism remains. With the UK Government looking to close the black hole in its finances, blown open by the 2008 crash, vital services are facing closure. Despite Cameron’s promise that the education budget would Read more…
115 Colleges across the United States demonstrated for free education on 12 November. The demonstrations were organized over social media using #MilllionStudentMarch. Among their demands were free education, $15 minimum wage for campus workers, elimination of existing debts, as well as ending racial and other oppressions on campuses and Read more…
This September, only days after the re-election of SYRIZA in power, the schools in the country opened. The shortages the schools faced were severe right away ; extending from books, to staff, to regular cleaning and writing supplies. For example, my neighbourhood primary school had to close in September Read more…
Marxist students were out in force as part of the demonstration on Wednesday 4th November against tuition fees, against the scrapping of maintenance grants, and for free education. Marching behind a banner with the slogan “the system is broken – fight for revolution” and adorned with red flags, the MSF Read more…
Staff at the University of Manchester will be balloted for strike action by the University and College Union (UCU) after bosses at the university disregarded employment procedure. Instead of waiting for the current review of redeployment procedure to be completed, the university issued 37 at risk of redundancy notices, leading Read more…
It seems obvious to say that education is a social good. In a rational society, in which the interests of the vast majority are met, school and university investment would be planned and free education delivered to all who want it. But we are not living in that Read more…
Below is a resolution of the Marxist Student Federation which is being discussed in Marxist societies all over the country this week. As Marxist students fighting tuition fee rises, privatisations and attacks on our living standards, the struggle of the South African students is a great inspiration to us. Their Read more…
The unprecedented assault on education in Britain over the last five years, from increasing tuition fees to scrapping maintenance grants, constitutes the Tories forcing young people to pay for the deepest crisis of capitalism in history. The fight for our education and for our future is the fight against Read more…
The letter below is a response from the Sheffield Marxist society to this article written by the vice-chancellor of the University of Sheffield, in which he refers to Marxists as “dopey” and claims that Marxism “doesn’t work”. An open letter to Keith Burnett from the ‘dopey’ Marxists. We, as the Read more…
On a global scale young people and workers are under attack by the rich and the establishment, who are keen to protect their profits and their position at the top of society. This is the result of a crisis of the capitalist system, which has exhausted its potential to develop Read more…
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