The Manchester student rent strike has won concessions from the university, showing what can be achieved through organisation and action. This militant example must now be replicated across the country.
Students at Manchester University have organised militant action – including rent strikes and occupations – in response to mistreatment and provocations from management. We need mass struggle to make the bosses sit up and take notice.
The pandemic and lockdown conditions have led to an explosion of mental health issues in society, and particularly amongst young people. Palliative measures are not enough. To save our mental health, we need socialist solutions.
University of Manchester bosses and landlords have proven to be nothing but selfish profiteering fat cats. But students are fighting back, mobilising against fences erected that turned Fallowfield Campus into a prison.
The Tories have banned the use of ‘anti-capitalist material’ in schools. The rigged education system won’t tell you the truth. Let the Marxist Student Federation do it.
Faced with ever-increasing pressures, many students are turning to drugs as a palliative for conditions such as anxiety and depression. Draconian policies will not help. We need socialist solutions to society’s mental health crisis.
Brought to campus under false pretences, thousands of students have been locked up in halls of residence, with little support from university management. But a fightback is being organised, as rent strike campaigns begin to spread. Fight fees and rents!
Elections for the leadership of Young Labour are in full swing. On the left, the ‘For a Socialist Future’ slate is looking to become a rallying point for radical youth. Candidate Lewis Griffiths reports on the campaign for a socialist YL.
Campuses across the country are in chaos, with university bosses lulling students back on false – and dangerous – pretences. Students must get organised, link up with workers, and fight back through rent strikes. Education should be free!
Universities are incarcerating students following an explosion of COVID cases in campus halls. This chaos has been created by the marketisation of education. Students and workers must fight for free education and democratic control.
As students head to campuses across the country, concerns are growing that universities could become the next hotspot for COVID infections. Staff and students must unite and fight to make universities safe, and for free education.
Lewis Griffiths, the official left candidate for Wales representative in the upcoming Young Labour elections, explains why Young Labour needs to become a rallying point for workers and students looking to fight the Tories and capitalism’s crises.