Marxist Union

[Voiceless]

Hi,

My school is holding a mock parliament, so I made up a party to participate, "Marxist Union". What can I do to make people interested in my party? I mean what ideas can be practically put into place in a school society? I need ideas and bills to get my party some votes, can anyone help me?

[The Garbage Disposal Unit]

Publicly reject the elections - call for a boycott.
Storm the mock parliament with supersoakers. Publicly execute all of the MPs after show-trials in which they are called nasty names like, "pig-fucker".
Hold an orgy.

[meow]

:lol:
marxists may stand for parliament. but they should at least recognize that it is not a means that while every be useful for changing things revolutionaryily.

my suggestion is that you say "socialist" rather then "marxist".

unless you actually want to boycot the election and call for the public execution of politicians and true power to the people.

unless i misunderstood what the parliament is for? to make changes in school? in which case you want more power to the students. to abolish the hierarchy in staff positions (no head teacher). student directed learning. abolish marking. all are radical education reforms that could be said by a marxist party.

[Voiceless]

Awesomeness people!

Keep it up!

[Trigonometry]

put yourself under more popular banners such as no homework, or release of detention, longer lunch times etc to get more supports

basically sabotage the system

[The Idler]

Power to the pupils. Hell, organise a student strike even if you don't win. Democratic education (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Democratic_education) has more info for ideas.

[Le Corsaire Rouge]

I agree that you should be calling for a boycott of the elections, but you should make sure that you explain /why/ you're doing so.

Practicalities: the idea of calling for the abolition of hierarchy is excellent: I would extend that to things like "prefects", if your school has those.

My main contribution would be that you should organise an occupation of the parliament. No need for the super-soakers: just get a group of students to walk in and refuse to leave.

[Voiceless]

Great ideas!

Finally, could someone suggest any laws I could promise to pass?

[ContrarianLemming]

A law which states that students may leave the classrrom for bathroom at any time

[Voiceless]

Anything else?

[The Idler]

Enfranchise students with the vote on whether to punish other students.

[The Garbage Disposal Unit]

To clarify, a mock parliament is not a student council - it's not a body with decision making authority. It's where you pretend to be MPs, basically. Think debate club.

[Wanted Man]

To clarify, a mock parliament is not a student council - it's not a body with decision making authority. It's where you pretend to be MPs, basically. Think debate club.

That's what I was going to say, but apparently the OP is happy with the suggestions so far. :lol:

[Voiceless]

Sorry. I worded the name wrongly, we do have power to change and create laws and stuff like that but we are restricted because our teacher made an unchangeable constitution (no referendums). However I am going to eliminate that once were in power.

If you guys have any other suggestions, fire away!