Youth
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By Dan Morley
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Thursday, 23 October 2008 |
Why should students
fight for socialism? The dominance of the market on all aspects of life is
crushing students and threatening the public nature of our education system.
This was a huge conquest of the working class against capital. Since the
government has been opening up education and student life to the market, the
crisis of capitalism will inevitably affect education. Of course, students now
have to take out loans, sucking them into debt and tying them up with the
credit system.
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By Kerem Nisancioglu
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Monday, 06 October 2008 |
Supporters of Hands Off Venezuela intervened at the University of
Sussex's freshers fair on 1st October. Sussex holds a long standing
anti-capitalist tradition which was reflected the enthusiasm of
students for the HOV stall.
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By Ben Curry
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Wednesday, 01 October 2008 |
Supporters of Hands off Venezuela at Leeds
University intervened during the week long freshers’ fair at Leeds University
Union to promote solidarity between students here in Leeds and the workers and
youth in Venezuela who are struggling to create a new society based on
socialist principles. There was a great deal of interest in the university’s
HOV society and the programme of events that the comrades have lined up. The
society managed to sign up 13 members and collected more than 50 contact details
as well as selling books, pamphlets and HOV magazines.
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By Mick Brooks
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Friday, 26 September 2008 |
Yesterday Socialist Appeal editor Mick Brooks spoke to an audience of
40 at the ULU Marxist Society in London. Mick outlined the major
developments of the economy in the last five years. He explained the
reasons for the credit crunch and the collapse of major banks in the
last few weeks.
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By Patrick Orr
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Friday, 26 September 2008 |
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Supporters of the Hands Off Venezuela
Campaign in Edinburgh held a stall at the two day long Societies’ Fair at
Edinburgh University.
The
comrades were hoping to highlight the gains of the Venezuelan revolution and to
draw attention to recent events in Bolivia as well as to restart the lapsed HOV
society at the university.
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By Nadia Mirza, QMUL
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Wednesday, 24 September 2008 |
Day by day the capitalist system is showing
itself for what it is. The impact of the credit crunch and the news of the
collapse of major investment banks in the US is radicalising young people. This
was evident to see at Queen Mary’s Freshers Fair last week, where the Marxist
Society intervened, attracting a fresh layer of young people looking for an
alternative.
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By Ewan Gibbs
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Monday, 22 September 2008 |
For the second year running the Hands Off Venezuela campaign
and Socialist Appeal made an intervention at the University of Glasgow
Fresher’s Fair. Through the course of the three day fair four supporters of HOV
and Socialist Appeal manned a stall selling various pieces of material
including the Hands Off Venezuela magazine and Socialist Appeal journal.
Hundreds of flyers for the Hands Off Venezuela campaign were distributed and
over fifty names were registered as showing interest in setting up a Hands Off
Venezuela society at the university.
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By Michael Docherty
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Monday, 22 September 2008 |
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The first Northern weekend school was held on the 12th-14th September,
organised by Yorkshire supporters of Socialist Appeal. The school took
place in Saddleworth, on the edge of the Peak District National Park. The theme of the school was "The Class, the Party and the Leadership". The
weekend proved tremendously successful, both in terms of political
education and bringing together socialists in the movement and young
activists.
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By Ben Curry
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Thursday, 18 September 2008 |
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With the beginning of the 2008/09
academic year fast approaching, students will soon be settling in to the
realities of student life. For new students this means at some point they’ve
made a choice: between studying away from home on the one hand and continuing
to live with their parents on the other. Almost a third of students choose the
latter option. This often means a long commute to a university chosen on the
basis of its location instead of its merits – but at least these students have
the security of a roof over their head. For those who have chosen to study away
from home, often unaware of the true cost of student life, this means moving in
to student accommodation and an ongoing struggle against poverty, unscrupulous
landlords and, more often than not, appalling living conditions.
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By www.handsoffvenezuela.org
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Monday, 15 September 2008 |
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Join us for a picket of the US embassy and public meeting on Wednesday,
September 17, in London to defend the Bolivian and Venezuelan
revolutions! Download and print off this A4 leaflet and distribute it as widely as possible.
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By Dan Morley
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Wednesday, 10 September 2008 |
The American education company Kaplan has announced plans to open a
profit seeking university in the UK. Although only a small beginning,
this opens the way to a profit-driven higher education system. The
first move was the government's, who recently relaxed laws on who can
award degrees. They are in effect trying to open up the concept of a
degree to market speculation and commodification.
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By Ewan Gibbs
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Monday, 18 August 2008 |
For centuries the Scottish education system has fiercely
maintained itself as an independent entity at all levels and has been seen by
many as superior to that of England and Wales. After devolution the Scottish
Parliament was granted responsibility for Scottish education and with this for administering
the associated fees and benefits. The Labour-Liberal Democrat coalition scrapped
tuition fees in favour of a one off graduate endowment payment, it was £2,289
when scrapped, and paid at the end of a course once a student was earning over
£15,000 per year.
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Wednesday, 16 July 2008 |
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Even the bourgeois press has admitted that
the sudden shift in world economic fortunes has brought Marxism ‘back from the
dead’ – the Sunday Times ran an article last week under the title ‘The credit
crunch is bringing Marxism back into fashion’. From our perspective, Marxism is
not a fashion or a strange breed of animal, as the bourgeoisie like to kid
themselves, but the only answer to today’s problems. And as the deep crisis of
world capitalism comes more and more to the surface, more and more people will
seek our ideas. This was shown by the turnout of more than 30 at ULU Marxist
Society and Socialist Appeal’s Marxist
Day School on Saturday 12th
July.
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By Pablo Roldan, HOV London
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Wednesday, 04 June 2008 |
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Over seventy people
gathered on Wednesday, May 21, at London's
Bolivar Hall for the opening of the film season Venezuela: a revolution in film, which is organised
by Hands off Venezuela in association
with the Venezuelan embassy in the UK. (Also in Spanish).
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By Alan Woods
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Friday, 16 May 2008 |
Forty years ago the world was experiencing upheaval on a world scale
that hadn't been seen for a generation. In the US opposition to the war
in Vietnam gathered momentum, as it did in Britain. In Pakistan
revolution was on the order of the day, and in Czechoslovakia we saw
the Prague spring and Soviet Invasion. In May there was the glorious
rising of the French working class, that saw 10 million workers down
tools in a general strike.
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