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Cambridge students Vote To Stay With NUS Print E-mail
By Adam Booth   
Saturday, 13 February 2010
cambridge_university.jpgFrom the 4th-9th of February, Cambridge University students voted in a referendum on whether to remain affiliated to the National Union of Students (NUS). The referendum was held due to a motion, passed earlier in the term, in which a small group of students proposed that the Cambridge University Students Union (CUSU) disaffiliate, claiming the the NUS had irreversibly degenerated into a bureaucratic travesty and that we were wasting our time (and money) by remaining affiliated to such an organisation.
 
Students protest at the University of Greenwich Print E-mail
By Eddie Kacar, University of Greenwich Marxists   
Monday, 08 February 2010
greenwich-su-demo-2010febsm.jpgOn the 4th February 2010, the Student Union at the University of Greenwich called a demonstration at the Maritime campus, outside the Vice Chancellor’s office. This was in response to the recent decision by the university management to increase tuition fees next academic year.
 
Glasgow students discuss the Afghan war Print E-mail
By Ewan Gibbs   
Thursday, 04 February 2010
glasgow1.jpgJanuary 26th saw ‘Glasgow Uni Left Society’ hold a successful first meeting of the year. More than twenty people came to hear Scottish Socialist Party National Spokesperson Colin Fox and Sherry Shamasi of The Struggle, the Pakistani section of the International Marxist Tendency, speak about the war in Afghanistan.
 
Who says the youth aren't prepared to fight? Print E-mail
By Steve Brown, SE Northumberland Trades council. (personal capacity)   
Wednesday, 27 January 2010
ashington.gifOn January 4th a consultation meeting at Ashington Leisure Centre in Northumberland was held by the Lib/Dem leadership of the County Council to "discuss" the question of its closure.  The council has to find £33m worth of cuts this year and amongst the many services being targeted is the town’s very popular and highly used leisure centre.
 
New Labour Fails to Provide for Young People Print E-mail
By Adam Booth   
Saturday, 23 January 2010

education.jpgWhen New Labour came to power in 1997, Tony Blair stated that his top three priorities were “education, education, education”. 13 years later, and figures from a recent poll  show that over two-thirds of people in England believe that the government has failed to deliver the improvement in education that it promised.
 
Support education, defend jobs at Leeds University! Print E-mail
By Chris Burrows   
Thursday, 21 January 2010
The University of Leeds has proposed cutting up to 700 jobs, according to the University and College Union. This is part of the university's attempt to cut its annual budget by £35 million. The Vice Chancellor, Michael Arthur, has engineered these cuts, and the student union refuses to oppose them. Leeds University is just one of dozens of higher education institutes that will be crippled by a reduction in funding. These attacks on jobs and education are the most severe since the Thatcher years and must be resisted.
 
The Relevance of Marxism Today Print E-mail
By Adam Booth   
Thursday, 07 January 2010
marx.jpgThe current recession has given people a thirst for knowledge; a desire to understand what is happening. People no longer need to be convinced of the failure of Capitalism – they can see and experience it for themselves. The public look to the bourgeois economists and reformist politicians for answers and they get no explanation other than some muttering about “greedy bankers”. This article published by a Cambridge student magazine explains what the Cambridge Marxists have to say about this.
 
Picket of Greek Consulate Print E-mail
By Glasgow Socialist Appeal Supporters   
Monday, 07 December 2009
dsc00389.jpgSupporters of Socialist Appeal in Glasgow joined Greek students in a picket of the Greek Consulate to mark the one year anniversary of the police murder of Alexandros Grigoropoulos in Athens. The murder set off a revolt of working class youth throughout Greece that was met with huge police repression.
 
UAL Marxists: Education Cuts - the socialist alternative Print E-mail
By UAL Marxist Society   
Tuesday, 24 November 2009
ualmarxsoc.jpgThe situation at the University of Arts London is part of the bigger picture of course cuts, redundancies and deficits across the whole of the public sector in Britain. Why should students and staff pay for the economic crisis with their jobs and education? UAL Marxists have organised a meeting for Tuesday 24th (6pm at the student hub, 65 Davies Street) to discuss the course cuts and redundancies that are taking place in UAL. A serious situation is emerging, which ultimately could affect all the students and staff at the university. Your education, your job, the quality of your work, all are under threat.
 
Big Business to Decide the Fate of Higher Education Print E-mail
By Adam Booth (Cambridge)   
Tuesday, 17 November 2009
student1a.jpgNew Labour, the government that introduced tuition fees and student loans in 1998 and then narrowly passed a bill to introduce top-up fees of £3,200 per year from 2006, have recently launched a “higher education finance review” to look into raising the cap on tuition fees (possibly up to £7000 per year) and examine the way in which universities should be funded. The appointment of Lord Browne, a friend of Peter Mandelson and former chief of the multinational oil-giant BP, to chair the fees review has not done anything to encourage university students, who already face the prospect of an accumulated debt of over £23,000 upon graduation.
 
London College of Communication: The struggle goes on Print E-mail
By Dan Read   
Friday, 13 November 2009
Students at the London College of Communication occupied the main lecture hall as part of a campaign to oppose planned cutbacks.The action started on Monday night and continued untill Wednesday afternoon. london_college_of_communication.gifThe decision to occupy was taken after a meeting on 9th of November where management refused to compromise on a “restructuring” plan that will involve course closers and staff redundancies, which have already amounted to over 150.

 

 
John McDonnell speaks at ULU Print E-mail
By Socialist Appeal   
Friday, 30 October 2009
img_1086.jpgHere is a short report on John McDonnell's lecture at the ULU Marxists Meeting in London last week
 
Limited primary school places open new market for solicitors Print E-mail
By Jo Pickard, London School Students' Union   
Wednesday, 07 October 2009
lewishambridgeprimaryschool.jpgAs the current economic climate worsens the government and county councils are targeting education as a means of saving money. Privatisation, redundancies and funding cuts are tarnishing the education system that so many other countries strive for. Now, with tuition fees on the increase - the yearly cap of £3,200 soon to be lifted - competition to get into what remains of higher education is becoming progressively biased towards only the more privileged members of society.
 
Leeds SA on campus! Print E-mail
By Ben Curry   
Tuesday, 29 September 2009
Between Wednesday 23 and Friday 25 of September, supporters of Socialist Appeal could be found running a stall outside the University of Leeds – bringing the ideas of Marxism onto the campus. The comrades sold 24 copies of the new Socialist Appeal all-colour paper over the three days as well as other literature
 
Perspectives for the Student Movement Print E-mail
By Socialist Appeal   
Friday, 25 September 2009
nus.jpgNowhere is the chasm between leadership and rank and file more seemingly unbridgeable than in the student movement. In 2009, students in the UK have spontaneously occupied universities to protest at Israel’s war on Gaza, to fight against deportations of university cleaning staff, and against massive cuts in teaching staff. At the same time, they face the worst attacks on their conditions in living memory in the form of increasing fees, the end of grants, and the vanishing jobs market. This is clearly an explosive combination.
 
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