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Protest at Tory conference: report

On Sunday October 2 over 35,000 workers, students, pensioners and anti-cuts campaigners marched outside the Conservative Party conference. This is a sizeable increase from the 7,000 demonstrators at last year’s conference, underlining the growing, yet still sluggish, moves to resist the austerity measures. The conference itself was ringed by steel walls, barricades and hundreds of ...

UCU strike & rally- Manchester

Tuesday 22nd and Thursday 24th saw a nationwide strike by lecturers from the UCU union protesting attacks on their pensions and higher education. Here at Manchester Metropolitan University members of Communist Students were at the picket lines on Thursday morning, to show solidarity with lecturers in their ongoing struggle against management. The MET, being a ...

Manchester against cuts 5th March report

James O'Leary reports On Saturday 5th March members of Communist Students joined the march against cuts in Manchester that had been called by Manchester Coalition Against Cuts to protests against this years spending cuts and more specifically the £110 million pounds worth of cuts to services that manchester City Council are set to vote through on ...

Upcoming Manchester CS events

Manchester Communist Students are holding a meeting next week on Wednesday the 23rd of February, 6pm at the University of Manchester's Student Union, on the International Student Movement. We shall also be holding a number of street stalls to advertise this event. The event shall see speakers from Britain, Austria and Turkey each reporting on their ...

Occupation at University of Manchester

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 ...

“We are the engine for opposition to these cuts” – another view on the student protests in Manchester

Growing resistance

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, ...

Youth take the Streets in Manchester

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 ...

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