From the National Campaign Against Fees and Cuts The National Campaign Against Fees and Cuts is calling for a National Student Strike this March, in support of a nationwide strike on pensions by the lecturers’ union, UCU, and coinciding with an official walk-out called by the National Union of Students. A date will be announced later this week, ...
Laurie Smith reports on a split in the student anti-cuts movement. (first published in the Weekly Worker) The Alliance for Workers’ Liberty and Workers Power have vied for influence in the National Campaign Against Fees and Cuts (NCAFC) since its formation over a year ago, but their tense marriage of convenience appears to ...
Below is the text sent around to anti-cuts activists by Glasgow Against Education Cuts. "Either "the year when the Tory-LibDem government finally press the advantage they have created in convincing many people that massive cuts are both necessary and inevitable". Or a year where the students and pupils will come to be seen as only the ...
Below is the text of the leaflet members of Communist Students will be distributing at the EAN conference tomorrow, Sunday 31st October. Highlighting the fact that Marxists will probably be in a majority at the event, it calls for unity of the student left on the basis of radical socialist politics, not lowest-common-denominator policies designed ...
Sinead Rylance surveys the current state of the student left. After nearly a year of National Campaign Against Fees and Cuts (NCAFC), and with a year facing us that will prove to be very relevant to the group’s stated aims, it seems appropriate to look at their future and their effect on the student movement. NCAFC ...