University education in Britain has which has gathered pace with the planned introduction of top-up fees. This is about the marketisation of education by creating a two-tier system, one for the rich and the other, substandard, for the poor.
The old polytechnics are at the sharp end of this assault. At one university in East London, UEL, 65 per cent of students are from non-white backgrounds, and are overwhelmingly working class. The university was built under the Public Finance Initiative is a big opportunity to do this
The anti-capitalist movement is not shallow. Sharp conflicts with the forces of the state, in Genoa, and through the anti-war movement, have given a new generation of activists the experience to understand politics. Respect is not an attempt to short circuit the movement, but to take it to another level.
Revolutionaries have to operate on all levels of struggle. In the mass movement, in the broad alternative to Blair and neoliberalism, and on the ideological front. Marxists understand that capitalism can't be reformed, and if we wait to build revolutionary parties at some later date, we might find it is just too late.
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