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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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, ...
The October 29 student demonstration against the further marketisation of higher education was uninspired and timid. Ben Lewis and Dave Isaacson report Sunday October 29 saw around 4,000 students march in London against proposals ...