A report by an anarchist from Birmingham on what actually happened at Birmingham City Council. This was the easiest and also one of the most dramatic political events I have been part of and compared to other student occupations and demo’s that have taken place in recent weeks it is comparatively mild. I ...
Communists stand against secrecy laws which allow states to go about their dirty business in private. To show how little has changed in this regard, read below Trotsky's justification for the publication of state documents from the Tsarist and Coalition governments, when the Bolsheviks came to power in Russia. STATEMENT BY TROTSKY ON THE PUBLICATION OF ...
In Iran, December 7th is the anniversary of the murder of three students of the University of Tehran in 1953, by Iranian police under the Shah. Every year there are national and local demonstrations at many universities organised by students. Over recent years the demonstrations have taken a more critical line against the current regime, ...
Ben Lewis reviews John Rees 'Strategy and tactics: how the left can unite to transform society' Counterfire, 2010, pp65, £4 This short pamphlet is the first written by former Socialist Workers Party leader John Rees under the aegis of his new organisation, Counterfire. If this project's recent news sheet is anything to go by, ...
James Turley discusses the critical problem of organisation in the student movement When I wrote for the Weekly Worker on the subject of the November 10 Millbank occupation, I warned that we might not have it so easy on the next round of anti-fees protests ('After Millbank: the way forward', November 18). One ...
Students at the week-long Newcastle University occupation have stepped up their action in defence of education. As well as staging a sit-in at the King's Gate building on the university campus, which resulted in the finance building being temporarily closed, they have submitted an application to the department for education to turn their occupied space ...
Alfred Stevens and Julian Langevin report on a cold yet inspiring protest in Manchester that demonstrated a growing radicalism and a thirst for politics. Over 1500 students from schools, colleges and universities marched through Manchester as part of the second national day of action against the cuts in education and the rise in fees. The police ...
The National Campaign Against Fees and Cuts has published a list of universities that have gone into occupation this week. We have reproduced it below. Newcastle University – http://ncluniocc.blogspot.com University College London London South Bank University (demands now met) Birmingham University Oxford University (evicted) Cardiff University Warwick University Strathclyde Dundee University of East London Portsmouth Leeds Metropolitan University Royal Holloway (ended) School of Oriental and African Studies University of West ...
CS member Mark Harrison is standing as an NUS conference delegate during this week's election at Manchester Metropolitan University. All MMU students can vote for him from 9am on Monday the 29th of November until 5pm on Friday the 3rd of December by clicking 'Student Login' on the student union website, after entering your details ...
By Callum Williamson. Students at Peter Symonds College in Winchester had been preparing for weeks to take part in the national wave of action against hikes in tuition fees, the scrapping of EMA (a particularly unpopular move amongst college students) and cuts to education in general. For two weeks beforehand there were meetings of 50 students, ...
Alfred Stevens has been sleeping in the Roscoe Building for three days. Day 4 in the Roscoe Occupation. The occupants woke up around 10am, it was a Saturday so they deserved a lie in, to find that overnight they'd received messages of solidarity from not only the 'Bard of Barking' Billy Bragg but also from the ...
The 30 or so students that held the building last night woke up bright and early to get propaganda out around the university, advertising the day school today and winning support for their protest. This included teams working in shifts flyering, getting posters up and a banner drop from the University of Manchester Precinct bridge. The ...
Well, what a day. I think all of us are still processing exactly what went on at last Wednesday’s London protest at Whitehall. There were the highs of seeing so many young people rush into Whitehall still wearing their school uniforms, there were the lows of being treated like animals by the state apparatus of ...