Solidarity with comrades in Pakistan
International solidarity works. The abducted comrades in Pakistan have been safely released.
Youth
Strikes, occupations, and the role of Marxists
Now that the UCU dispute is over, we must learn the lessons from this important struggle by workers and students.
NUS conference 2018: what have we learned and what’s next?
Marxist Student delegates to this year’s NUS conference assess the outcomes from the debates, votes, and elections that have taken place over the past week. What is the way forward for the student movement from here?
NUS conference 2018: fighting for a socialist student union
Activists from the Marxist Student Federation will be present in Glasgow this week as delegates to the 2018 NUS national conference. Here’s what they will be arguing for.
The paper tiger of Tory tuition fee review
After inflicting unpayable debts upon a generation of students, Theresa May has been forced to admit that Britain’s higher education funding system is broken. But the Tories will do nothing to fix it. We need free education and a socialist Labour government.
100 Marxist students celebrate fifty years since 1968
Saturday 17th February saw the 5th annual conference of the Marxist Student Federation. We publish here a report back from the day’s inspiring discussions. It is clear that the Marxists are going from strength to strength.
A message to students: join lecturers on the picket lines!
This week sees the beginning of a series of strikes by university teaching staff against attacks on pensions. Joe Attard of the KCL UCU discusses how workers and students can unite and fight to defend higher education.
Left takes control of London Young Labour
Socialist Appeal supporters report on the recent AGM of London Young Labour, which marks another victory for the Corbyn movement in the fight to reclaim the Labour Party from the Blairites.
Young Labour: inspire, mobilise, and organise
This Saturday (3rd February) sees the regional AGM of Young Labour in London. Matt Rider of Swansea West CLP discusses the steps Young Labour needs to take in order to capitalise on the enthusiasm and energy of the Corbyn ‘youthquake’.
1968: Year of revolution – Marxist Student conference 2018
This year’s conference of the Marxist Student Federation commemorates the 50th anniversary of the revolutionary events of 1968. Join us at the conference in London on 17th February!
Marxists scare the Tory press and bourgeois academics
A recent poll finds that young people today see capitalism as more dangerous than communism. But what has really sent the establishment into a frenzy is Marxist student Fiona Lali’s defence of communism on BBC Radio 4.
Marketisation of higher education leaves students short-changed
Higher education is increasingly being run like a business. But the education market is failing, with students seeing rising fees and the government facing the prospect of unpaid student debts. Fiona Lali discusses the crisis engulfing the higher education system in Tory austerity Britain.