One year after breaking into the lobby of Tory HQ at Millbank, on November 9 students marched through London again, the central themes being tuition fees, soaring youth unemployment and the restructuring of higher education. Attendance was around 8,000-10,000 (though police estimates put it at much less), significantly lower than last year. This should be expected ...
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 ...
Leaflet distributed at last week's National Campaign Against Fees and Cuts conference in London.
Sinead Rylance reports on the occupation of the Edmond J Safra Building at Kings College London Around midday on the second national day of action against tuition fees (December 30th) the ‘we support our teachers’ group and some of its supporters occupied the Edmond J Safra building, which has a capacity of ...
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 ...