Younger people are being pushed into political activity because of the horrors of capitalism. From the Youth Strike 4 Climate movement to the current A Level fiasco, we are seeing crisis after crisis for school students. Young people are suffering under the pressure of capitalist life. The system cannot offer anything to these young people. Read more about what has been happening to school students, and fight back with us!
Years of chronic underfunding – alongside the pandemic – have led to a crisis in the country’s schools. Tory proposals offer no solution. To defend education, we must fight academisation and privatisation, and tackle the problem at its root.
According to the Tories’ new plan for university education, applicants who don’t pass GCSE English and Maths will no longer be eligible for student loans. This disgraceful policy will effectively block off a quarter of young people from getting into university. Not only will many university students have to shoulder Read more…
Students at Newham Sixth Form College and members of the NewVic Student Activist Committee rally in solidarity with Child Q, the black schoolgirl who was brutally strip searched by Metropolitan Police at the Age of 15. There were passionate speeches from Marxist students, who organised the rally, about how the Read more…
Protests have erupted across London in solidarity with Child Q – yet another victim of police racism, misogyny, and violence. It is clear that the Met Police are rotten to core. To end this oppression and repression, we need to end capitalism. Twice over the last week, on Friday 18 Read more…
On Saturday the 12th of February, school and college student members of the MSF kicked off their half-terms with a trip to Birmingham. Students travelled from as far as London, Liverpool and Cambridge and Nottingham to watch two talks relating to student work and perspectives for the student movement. The Read more…
Teachers at Newham Sixth Form college in east London are continuing their strike against overwork, management bullying, and academisation. Meanwhile, students are mobilising in support of staff. We must build the fightback to defend education. For over four weeks now, National Education Union (NEU) members have been on strike at Read more…
The Department of Education announced a new scheme to introduce Latin as a subject in state schools to help “put an end to the divide” between private and state schools. We highly doubt it.
Another results day, another devastating headline on educational inequality. Despite the partial good news, that grades were high and many people could accept University places, the results showed a darker side: rising inequality in education.
From its inception, major concerns have been raised about reductions in CAMHS while demand increases, and waiting list times soar. Young people are forced to travel hundreds of miles for faltering and underfunded healthcare, with some having to wait over a year. CAMHS referrals are also notoriously hard to receive, and some young people with multiple diagnoses have been unable to receive help on the NHS.
Students all over the world are seeing the holes in the education they are given. It is no longer enough to dispel myths to young people through their schooling. More and more, people are turning away from the lies told to them. Here, Iris d’Honfleur, a recent A Level student, looks at her experience of A Level History.
The Tories have clearly learnt nothing from the past year’s tragic events. Due to the government’s recklessness and incompetence, the virus is once again ripping through schools. As a result, hundreds of thousands of pupils are being sent home.
In the past few months, discontent among Chinese youth is increasingly bursting to the surface, both online and on campuses, in defiance of state censorship and repression. A widespread proliferation of anti-capitalist memes and open dissent against the regime online speak to a general undercurrent of rage and resentment, which has also seen university students launching struggles across two provinces.
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