This year, the marketisation of education, in line with the capitalist profit motive, has led to students being locked in accommodation, with no food, no lessons and paying immense rent. Students in Manchester have been caged into their accommodation. This has led to more anger and radicalisation from students. We are ready to fight back! The MSF is here to harness that anger and help students fight against these appalling conditions. Read our analyses of what has been happening to students.
On 24 October Liverpool Marxist Society met and voted to endorse Gilly Singh as the Marxist Candidate for the upcoming elections for delegates to NUS national conference from The Guild of Students at University of Liverpool. Below you will find a statement written by him on why he is running Read more…
Cambridge University invests more than £370 million in fossil fuels and has close ties with oil and energy companies. Between 2009 and 2014, the university received £15.8 million in funding from carbon-intensive companies. In 2000, BP gave the university £22 million to establish a research centre. The vast sums of Read more…
Since mid-September Marxist students all over Britain have been signing people up to join Marxist societies at their universities. In 2013 student supporters of Socialist Appeal decided to establish the Marxist Student Federation – a network of university Marxist societies that had been developing for several years. The Federation, and Read more…
Hillary Clinton, the supposed advocate for “children’s human rights around the world”, will soon be awarded an honorary doctorate by Swansea University, and shamefully have the Law School named after her. Many students are concerned by this development – what does she really represent? If one scratches the surface of Read more…
The fight for equality and an end to oppression is too important for confused ideas and fashionable posturing. In the Democratic Republic of Congo 1,152 women are raped every day – equivalent to 48 every hour (American Journal of Public Health), and 40% of women in the east of the Read more…
In a recent speech, the Vice Chancellor of Oxford University accused the ‘mendacious media’ and ‘tawdry politicians’ of trying to tarnish the reputation of the higher education sector by pointing out the hypocrisy of her pay rises. Of course, it was a disaster of a speech all round, with the Read more…
This July, the ‘Cut the Rent’ campaign at University College London (UCL) announced that students had secured major concessions from management for university accommodation rents. This follows a five month long rent strike in which 200 students living at UCL halls of residence withheld rents ranging from £156 to £276 Read more…
The University of Manchester (UoM) plans to cut 171 jobs, including those of 140 academic staff (leaving up to 1000 staff uncertain about their future) and Manchester Metropolitan University (MMU) plans the closure of their Crew Campus (leading to a further 160 job losses). The staff cuts will affect the Read more…
Between June 14 and 18, 2017, the 55th National Union of Students (UNE) Congress took place in Belo Horizonte. The event, held jointly at the Federal University of Minas Gerais (UFMG) and Ginásio Mineirinho, in the Pampulha region, was attended by more than fifteen thousand young people, with almost five Read more…
Today (28 June) is a day of protest to demand the reinstatement of Dawn Holdman, a UCU rep at the University of Liverpool who is believed to have been dismissed for her trade union activity. Marxist students are in solidarity with Dawn. It’s a disgrace that anyone should lose their Read more…
In a period of capitalist crisis there are no longer any reforms to give but only counter-reforms and attacks on the working class to make. No area is safe from sacrifice to increase the profitability of capital. In these periods the reality of liberal ideology and capitalism itself is laid Read more…
As the current academic term ends and studies conclude for another generation of undergraduate students, work carries on for the thousands of staff employed at universities and higher education colleges across the country. Just last year, figures from the Higher Education Statistics Agency, analysed and released by UCU, revealed the Read more…
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