Youth

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!

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.

Thousands of students marched through central London today to demand “free education now”. With Corbyn promising to abolish fees, and with the current Tory government in crisis, the prospect of free education has become a tangible possibility within our generation’s reach.

Tomorrow, Wednesday 15 November, there will be a demonstration in London calling for free education. Marxist Students will be there and we hope as many people as possible will be able to come along too. We want to see free education, full living grants for all students, and an end to education cuts.

This academic year will see elections taking place in campuses across the country for new student union officers and delegates to the NUS conference in April 2018. We publish here the Marxist Student Federation’s manifesto for the student movement, which outlines the socialist policies and fighting programme that we will be demanding in these campaigns.

Since mid-September, Marxist students all over Britain have been signing people up to join Marxist societies at their universities. The Marxist Student Federation reports on this academic year’s success in building the forces of Marxism on campuses across the country and struggling for socialism.