Socialist Appeal, a British front organisation for the IMT, has cobbled together an impressive presence throughout universities up and down the country.

They appear to possess a veritable spiders’ web of university societies under their direct, centralised control; from the Sussex Marxist Society on the south coast to Revolutionary Students Edinburgh up in Scotland, the IMT have cast a wide net. Going by their own sources, more than 50 universities fall under the umbrella of their “Marxist Students Federation”, all complete with expensive custom made banners and glossy agitprop art. On top of this, their pockets are so deep now that they’ve taken to throwing their own “Marxist festival” in an extra effort to try and woo the students.

I’ve heard they rinse their membership with exorbitant members fees, but even so this seems like a lot. Do they have some high profile sponsors that keep them afloat so they can pursue these ambitious projects or is there some other arrangement in place to provide them all these resources?