#CutTheCosts is the latest political campaign set up by NUS, the aim of which is to force the government to u-turn on its planned scrapping of maintenance grants. It is also raising the idea that it would be more beneficial to cut living costs as this would actually eliminate the Read more…
This weekend, on Sunday 6th September, the labour movement celebrates the centenary of the longest strike in British history, the Burston School strike, which ran from 1914 to 1939 in Norfolk. The strike had the solid support of the local community of farm labourers and farm tenants and it Read more…
The school and college term has begun again with less than two weeks to go before the result of the Labour Party leadership is announced. To the horror of the Tories, the rich and the establishment, Jeremy Corbyn’s campaign has rocked the British political scene by energising hundreds of thousands Read more…
This week the boss of Huntley Mount Engineering Ltd was jailed after a sixteen year-old apprentice, Cameron Minshull, was killed while working for him in January 2013. Cameron was employed by the company as cheap labour, earning just £3 per hour working without training or supervision. The machinery he was Read more…
A survey conducted last month by Save the Student found that maintenance loans for students, which are supposed to cover rent and other living costs for students at university, fall well short of what it really costs young people to maintain a decent standard of living while studying. The Read more…
Marxist Students have lent their support and solidarity to a campaign at King’s College London (KCL) fighting to achieve fair pay and reasonable working conditions for part-time student staff. General Teaching Assistants (GTAs) are widely-exploited by university management as a source of cheap labour, being saddled with complex duties including marking, Read more…
After being informed that a third of accommodation fees, which have risen by more than 20% in the last three years, will go into “capital and borrowing”, students at Durham demanded to know what exactly the University is investing in. A Freedom of Information request revealed that in the Read more…
Students at LSE have occupied the Vera Anstey Suite, the central meeting room of the university administration, to fight for an end to profit-driven education and the marketisation of the university. Members of the LSE Marxist Society are among those students involved with the occupation. The Marxist Student Federation Read more…
On Friday, 13 February, students occupied the Bungehuis at the University van Amsterdam (UvA). By the end of the first day of the occupation the movement grew in support with around 200 people participating in the occupation. It lasted 12 days and during this time they held several student activities Read more…
In the latest move aimed at using the territory of Gibraltar to bolster political support, the Spanish foreign minister, Jose Manuel Garcia-Margallo, has announced the closure of the Cervantes Institute, a Spanish language school in Gibraltar. Gibraltar has always been a bone of contention between Spain and Britain which Read more…
With the student elections at QMUL fast approaching, adverts have begun appearing around campus encouraging people to run for a position as a student representative. The situation faced by students today is a difficult one. We are paying £9,000 fees and racking up enormous debts, despite the graduate job Read more…
The last General Assembly that was held before the christmas break was attended by almost 600 students, one of the biggest attendances for years for such an event. The biggest question concerning those participating was the merging of some sabbatical officers’ positions such as the women’s officer and the Read more…
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