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By Stella Christou, UCL Marxists
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Wednesday, 01 February 2012 |
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Over the last year Greece has rarely
been out of the news across Europe. With headlines such as “Greek
tragedy”, “Corruption in every corner” and “Greece’s lazy workers”, the
capitalist media have painted the Greek people as first amongst the
so-called P.I.G.I.’S. (Portugal, Italy, Greece, Ireland and Spain) of
Europe. It's one-time international image as a sunny, friendly place has
been replaced by one of greed, corruption and chaos. This is part of
the ruling class campaign to blame the crisis of capitalism on the Greek
people, and tells us nothing of the hardships they have to endure
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By Jason Phillips, Queen Mary's Marxists
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Monday, 09 January 2012 |
 This is the year universities in
England are allowed to charge their UK based students £9000 for studying
for just one year. With most undergraduate courses lasting 3 years this
will mean that students may have to pay £27000 for tuition fees. This
doesn’t include the cost of living away from home. We probably will see a
major increase in students either living from home and going to more
local universities, or people will sadly sacrifice university education
altogether.
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By Rachel Gibbs, Edinburgh Marxists
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Saturday, 17 December 2011 |
 The Scottish National Party’s (SNP)
landslide victory in the 2011 Scottish parliamentary election was
exceptional under an electoral system designed to prevent majority
governments. It was one of the most important events in Scottish
politics in recent years. This win was on the back of the Nationalist’s
rule as a minority government since 2007. In the most recent elections
the SNP gained seats in Glasgow, Fife and Renfrewshire, all
long-considered Labour strongholds. The question of why this happened is
important in understanding the impact on classroom sizes discussed in
this article.
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By Rachel Gibbs
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Monday, 28 November 2011 |
 News last week of 27 higher
education institutions lowering their 2012/2013 tuition fees to £7500
appears to have failed to have had a great impact on students/university
applicants. This could partly be put down to the lower fee still being
of a similar level to those being charged by other universities; many
potential students feel that they are going to be in so much debt when
they leave university that £4500 will not make much difference.
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By Will Lloyd (Hexham)
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Sunday, 20 November 2011 |
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The one-day public sector strike on Nov 30th is not only getting support from the workers themselves but also from other sections of society. Here we publish a letter from a school student showing how they too are behind the strikers and their fight against the Tory attacks.
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By Ewan Gibbs, Glasgow Uni
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Friday, 11 November 2011 |
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Glasgow University hasn’t been short
of dramatic events over 2011. This includes a march of over 3,000
students against course cuts, a major police operation attempting to
evict a student occupation which was successfully opposed by hundreds of
student protestors, and a tight election for the Student Representative
Council (SRC) presidency which saw the Left come within a couple of
hundred votes of winning. The situation has now developed to the point
where the victor of that election, Stuart Ritchie, has been forced to
resign only months into the first semester.
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By Steve Jones
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Wednesday, 09 November 2011 |
 On the first anniversary of the great student protest of November last year, several thousand students and trade unionists marched through the City of London accompanied by several thousand police, clearly under pressure to stop a repeat of what happened last time with the Tory HQ.
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By Cambridge Marxists
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Thursday, 13 October 2011 |
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As the crisis of capitalism continues
to pile attack after attack on living standards, the student and labour
movements in Britain are preparing for their largest mobilisations in
decades and crucially are coalescing this Autumn into a momentous month
of activity in November. No one can deny that the national student
demonstration (9th November) and the coordinated strike action (30th
November) are really part of the same struggle.
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By Militant Student
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Monday, 10 October 2011 |
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Marxist ideas have never been more relevant and more needed than in this
present epoch. Students, especially those entering university for the
first time, have become radicalised and are asking profound questions
about our society. Above all they want to change society in a
revolutionary way - from Wall Street to Cairo radicalised students are
demanding a different kind of society and are experimenting with
different methods of mobilisation to effect that. Underneath this
process lies a thirst for revolutionary ideas. This enthusiasm was
certainly experienced by Militant Student supporters up and down the
country as they took part in freshers fairs.
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By Julia Sanz Vidania, Edinburgh Marxists
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Wednesday, 21 September 2011 |
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Just a few days before the Scottish
Government are to announce details of a series of major spending cuts
to public services, students from around Scotland have occupied the
George Square at Edinburgh University in protest against rising tuition
fees for English, Welsh and Northern Irish students wanting to attend
Edinburgh University.
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By Ewan Gibbs & Michael Allan
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Saturday, 03 September 2011 |
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After 7 months,
the occupation of the Hetherington Research Club at Glasgow University,
better known as the Free Hetherington, has come to a close. With
universities across Britain on the verge of a new term, two student
activists from Glasgow look at the history of the occupation and the
anti-cuts movement at Glasgow this year, and the lessons that the
student movement can take from it.
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By Report Militant Student. Pics: Steve & George
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Monday, 20 June 2011 |
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"I
must say I was really impressed, first of all with the presence of so
many young people, and the high political level of all those who spoke",
commented Mark from North London. This summed up the general feeling of
all those who participated.The Marxist Summer School, which was the
first of its kind organised by Socialist Appeal, was far more of a
success than the organisers had anticipated with over 100 attending over
the course of the weekend. Those who attended ranged from experienced
trade unionists to young people, including many school students.
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By Steve Jones - Pics
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Monday, 20 June 2011 |
 Over 80 people came along to all or part of the Marxist Summer School held in London on 17th to 19th June 2011. A full report will appear shortly but here are some pictures taken at various sessions.
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By Socialist Appeal
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Thursday, 16 June 2011 |
 There is now just a couple of days to go before the Marxist Weekend
School in London starts. Friday night's session will now include reports
on the latest events in Greece and Spain, so please make sure you come
along for this even if you cannot make the rest of the weekend.
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By Rachel Gibbs, Edinburgh School Student Union
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Tuesday, 14 June 2011 |
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The coalition argued that higher tuition fees for university would allow
for less government funding of education without a loss in the quality
of Britain’s ancient institutions. The increased fees were supposed to
end state funding of universities but instead a massive shortfall in
investment has been created due to the levels of unpaid debt that will
be created. From the capitalists’ point of view the only way that this
can be dealt with is through further cuts to higher education.
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