Frances Grahl's report of Wednesday's demo in London. Originally posted at http://shareorshelve.blogspot.com/ 12.30: Left work at Tottenham Court Road. Phone L. She was leaving Trafalgar Square ‘with the march’ to walk down Whitehall. Had expected ‘carnival’ in Trafalgar Square to last longer so hurry down Charing Cross Road. 12.45: Can see end of march ...
James Turley looks ahead to the Coalition of Resistance conference and warns against the lack of democracy and a clear programme Of the baker’s dozen anti-cuts campaigns to have sprung up over the last period, the Coalition of Resistance against Cuts and Privatisation makes for the most impressive so far. While the Socialist Workers ...
Report by Alfred Stevens Around 80 students occupied of a lecture theatre in the University of Manchester's Roscoe building with around half staying overnight. The occupiers come from The University of Manchester, Manchester Metropolitan University, workers form UCU and even some students from local colleges The occupation is in protest against cuts and any rise in ...
Curtis McLellan from Manchester Labour Students explains why students from schools, colleges and universities marched through the city against the cuts. Over 3,000 people marched in Manchester to protest against the Governments reckless approach to higher education. Who were they? There were students from both the University of Manchester, ...
These photos were taken at the student day of action on Weds 24th November when thousands of school, college and university students walked out of classes and attended a demonstration and rally in Trafalgar Square. Please use but credit Emily Chaplin.
Mark Harrison (CS Exec and The Commune) writes his personal reflection on the protests in Manchester. Fortunately today I slept in and missed my 11am lecture and decided to go to what I expected to be a piddly little demo. What a pleasant surprise awaited me! By 12:30 approximately 3000 people had gathered at the designated ...
Leaflet distributed in Manchester today during the national day of protest against tuition fees and education cuts.
On Monday (22nd November) members from Communist Students joined around 50 students from Manchester Metropolitan University in the occupation of a lecture theatre in the University's Geoffrey Manton building. The occupation was in protest against the cuts to higher education both on a national scale and at their university specifically. ...
Communists have no truck with cowardly and hypocritical condemnations, writes CS member James Turley. First published in the Weekly Worker. After months of phoney war, the anti-cuts movement has its first defining image - 30 Millbank, the Conservative Party headquarters (among other things), evacuated and entered by hundreds of students. No less than nine separate ...
Over 80 students crammed themselves in the learning centre of the John Roan Sixth Form, Greenwich today to hear eye witness accounts from students who marched alongside education workers last Wednesday on the massive demo against tuition fee increases. Students are in uproar at the prospect of being saddled with debts of over £44, 000 ...
The Education Activist Network, run by the Socialist Workers Party, called a London wide 'planning meeting' at Kings College on Monday. The people answered - two or three hundred crammed into the Safra lecture theatre. A large portion of the crowd was SWP, but there were a lot of Counterfire comrades, some Workers Power and ...
By Cat Rylance. Around 80 students met today at the University of Manchester Students’ Union to discuss where we should go next after Wednesday’s NUS demonstration. This number was a significant improvement on the 15 or so who have been attending the anti-cuts meetings this term. The prospect for occupation was quickly raised by three to ...
The assault on Conservative Party HQ will go down as one of the most audacious actions taken by students in Britain for generations. The occupation and mass protests of 52,000 students and education workers is a clear message to the coalition government that we will fight. During the protest 51 people were arrested and the ...