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Free Education Demonstration: Educate, Agitate, Organise!

Posted on February 26th 2009 | 5 comments
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Wednesday 25 Free Education Demonstration: Educate, Agitate, Organise!
Around 600 students gathered at SOAS University to demand free education and a living grant for all. Although numbers were slightly lower than had been initially expected, it was very encouraging to see students turn out in such numbers in an action that was organised completely independently of [...]

National demonstration for free education

Posted on February 2nd 2009 | 13 comments

[ February 25, 2009; 12:00 pm to 5:00 pm. ] CS will have a large presence at this demo, to push the idea of a marxist and united youth movement. Unfortunately it has been the subject of infighting between the youth fronts of the SWP (AEP) and AWL (ENS), who have both tried to claim exclusive ownership of the demo. The info below is culled [...]

Is Another SWP Front Possible?

Posted on November 21st 2008 | 2 comments
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Ben Lewis reports from last Friday’s demonstration in London to oppose cuts in student grants.
“You’re lucky you’re late, there was hardly anyone here at the time we were meant to start”. This is how one member of the Socialist Worker’s Party greeted me on arrival at the ‘emergency’ demonstration called by new SWP student [...]

Two groups: no answers

Posted on November 7th 2008 | No comments

Having brushed Student Respect under the carpet, the SWP launched their new student front on November 1st, on almost identical politics to Education Not for Sale. Dan Read and Dave Isaacson were there.
CS proposals to conference- click here
Another politics is possible- click here
Most of the 150 or so student activists who gathered in London for [...]

Another Education is Possible Conference

Posted on October 24th 2008 | No comments

Initiated by the Socialist Worker Student Society, this conference looks to set up a project almost identical to Education Not for Sale. CS members will be there to argue for radical politics and democracy in the student movement- expect a report after the conference.
Info from: www.anothereducationispossible.org.uk

Building a Democratic Campaigning Student Movement
As the impact of the [...]

Is the fight for free education worth it? A debate

Posted on September 30th 2008 | No comments

I wonder what the answer to this one is…
NO: Wes Streeting, NUS President
YES: Aled Dilwyn Fisher, LSESU General Secretary and ENS
4pm, Wednesday 15 October, in the JCR, School of Oriental and African Studies, Russell Square, London
For more information email [...]

A wave of school students’ strikes hit Germany

Posted on July 11th 2008 | No comments

We have received the following report from comrade Wladek Flakin, from the independent youth organization REVOLUTION in Germany:
On 22 May, about 8,000 students in Berlin demonstrated through the inner city. On 12 June, there were students’ strikes in at least eight different cities, from Tübingen in the south-west to Bad Doberan in the north-east, with [...]

Time to smell the coffee

Posted on April 1st 2008 | No comments

The sectarianism and economism of the left has prevented a united challenge in the NUS elections. By James Turley
Sofie Buckland, it seems, is very annoyed indeed.
Buckland, member of the Alliance for Workers’ Liberty (AWL), its student front Education Not for Sale (ENS), and the NUS’s ‘block of 12′ (a part-time group of officers), had been [...]

Is the NUS worth saving?

Posted on December 1st 2007 | No comments

It sounds almost farcical: why would the leadership of the National Union of Students try to abolish democracy in its own organisation? CS member Tina Becker reports
Let’s be honest. Most students don’t really know what the NUS is, let alone what it does or how it operates. And who can blame them? Currently, it is [...]

Keep the cap? No, scrap the fees!

Posted on November 5th 2006 | No comments

The October 29 student mobilisation against attacks on the right to education should be just the beginning of the campaign to beat off the government. More of the same sort of timid gestures from the NUS leadership will be worse than useless. Unless the fight against fees is won to a fundamentally different political approach, [...]

 
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