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 ...
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 ...
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. ...
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 executive of Leeds University Union (LUU) has released a statement launching a campaign against any strike action to save jobs. They wrote “It’s time to put your education first” totally forgetting that the only way to save jobs and the education is to take decisive action. If the lecturers fail to take action against ...
Around 4pm on Tuesday afternoon around 30 students from London Metropolitan University (LMU) staged occupied the fifth floor of a University building on Commercial Road. The occupation took place in the context of threats to axe over 550 jobs at the institution. The university is greeted with massive bills from the Higher Education Funding Council ...