Under new government proposals, students without pass grades in GCSE maths and English will be blocked from accessing university loans. The whole education system is rigged. We need to fight for free education, funded by expropriation.
Despite the huge radicalisation amongst young people, the recent day of action called by the NUS unfortunately saw a disappointing turnout. Local mobilisations show the potential that exists. We need fighting leadership and a socialist programme.
University staff in the UCU are in the middle of their latest wave of strike action against attacks on pensions, pay, and conditions. But education bosses are digging their heels in. Only escalated action can secure victory for the workers.
Strike action by UCU members is continuing this week and next, with university workers determined to fight for victory. Marxist students are organising solidarity campaigns to support their staff – and to fight the marketisation of education.
Marxist activists in universities and colleges are mobilising to support striking staff: organising solidarity campaigns, and building for the national student walkout on 2 March. The reports published here show how this can be done.
The NUS has called for a national student walkout on 2 March. And university lecturers are set to take further strike action this term. Activists must begin building for these immediately, to mobilise a mass movement to defend education.
The scene is set for potential united action across the education sector this term, with further strikes by UCU members in universities, and a planned national walkout of students called by the NUS. Activists must begin mobilising now.
Activists from the UCU, NEU and MSF talk about the crisis facing the education sector, and the need to put an end to marketisation and capitalism.
Last week’s three-day strike by UCU members in higher education saw an impressive mobilisation of students in support of staff. With further strikes on the cards in the new year, this solidarity is a solid foundation for escalated action.
With academic staff in the UCU due to strike for three days this week, activists from the Marxist Student Federation are helping to organise solidarity campaigns in universities across the country. Students and workers: unite and fight!
Next week, UCU members at universities across the country will be striking in a battle over pensions, pay, and conditions. It is vital that students support their lecturers. Their struggle is our struggle. Students and workers: unite and fight!
A spontaneous campaign has sprung up across the country in response to a recent rise in drink-spiking – yet another danger that women face everyday under capitalism. To end oppression, we must fight to overthrow this decrepit system.