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.
The Marxist Student Federation marched alongside thousands of other students and workers on 19 November to defend education. Read the full report by Sarah and Rosie from Manchester here. See below for pictures and a video of the demo
The Nation Union of Students (NUS) and University and Colleges Union (UCU) have called a demo on 19 November – we’ll be there, united for education. The demo has been called to defend education against cuts, privatisations and marketization. Recently there have been endless attacks on bursaries, grants, teaching standards, lecturer’s pay, Read more…
The Southampton Marxist society has written an article for the Wessex Scene, the local student newspaper in Southampton. The full article can be found here and some key excerpts from it are below. Students across the country have already devised ways of fighting back against the exploitation of their rent. With Read more…
Franklin Qiao from the UCLU Marxist society recently ran on a Marxist platform for the position of delegate to the National Union of Students. Franklin’s ideas would transform the NUS from a distant bureaucratic machine into a fighting students’ union. Unfortunately Franklin did not win election this time around Read more…
The NUS and UCU have called a demo on 19 November – we’ll be there, united for education. Due to the crisis of capitalism, our generation faces a future worse than our parents. With sky-high fees and extortionate rents, higher education is increasingly becoming the preserve of the rich. Further Read more…
Throughout the month of September, Socialist Fightback clubs at UVic, UofT, Ryerson, York U and Seneca, Trent Durham, McMaster, Waterloo, UdeM, Concordia, and McGill, engaged with hundreds of students interested in Marxist ideas during the frosh campus club days and street festivals. In total, over 1000 students expressed interest in Read more…
[Today thousands of youth and students will take to the streets to protest against the government’s attacks on education and the student grant (SU). The article below is from REVOLT, the English magazine of Revolutionære Socialister – IMT in Denmark] The Danish government has recently presented its 2025 plan, and as Read more…
Revolution, the youth paper of the International Marxist Tendency, met up with a representative of the Bursary or Bust campaign to discuss the terrible conditions faced by student nurses in Britain, who have lost their NHS bursary to Tory austerity measures. With this financial lifeline cut and further junior doctors’ strikes Read more…
It becomes increasingly clear that capitalism is not and never will provide a future for young people today. Many young people find themselves bearing the brunt of attacks from the ruling class on the rights of workers and their families. People aged 16 – 24 are three times more Read more…
Marxist students have been hard at work all over the country signing people up to Marxist societies at the university freshers fairs. Here are a few reports of what we’ve been up to. Manchester The Manchester ‘Welcome Fair’ was very successful for the MarxSoc. Over 200 signed up to the Read more…
Many students at Edinburgh Napier freshers fair showed an interest in the ideas of Marxism yesterday. Ideas such as a National Education Service, free education, a living rent and price controls on food, beer, cider, spirits, toiletries and a fight for a socialist future the students need and deserve, all Read more…
The Tories are planning to cut funding for colleges that train apprentices by up to 50% next year, with the bulk of the cuts falling in the most deprived areas. The most popular apprenticeships for 16-18 year olds, in business administration and construction, are being cut by anywhere between 27% Read more…
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