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.
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.
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.
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.
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’.
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!
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.
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.
Since September, Marxist students have been running campaigns to get elected as delegates to the national conference of the National Union of Students. Several Marxist candidates have been successful, with many campaigns yet to come next term. Help us fight for socialist policies in the student movement! Join your local Marxist society today!
A Unison-led demonstration was held outside King’s College London on Friday 1st December as part of an on-going campaign to bring the university’s cleaning staff in-house. Around 100 staff and students were present, demanding justice for the cleaners. Joe Attard of the KCL Marxists reports on the latest events in the cleaners’ fight for decent pay and conditions.
SOAS Marxist students report from the protest earlier this week called by the Independent Workers of Great Britain (IWGB) University of London branch in support of bringing outsourced workers at the Senate House back in-house.
Earlier this month, Corbyn’s Labour Party tabled a motion to lower the voting age to 16. Unsurprisingly, the Tories (who have almost no support amongst teenagers) opposed this. Thomas Soud of the Warwick Marxists outlines why the voting age should be lowered – but also why voting alone is not enough. Above all, we need to get organised.