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 ...
Students at the week-long Newcastle University occupation have stepped up their action in defence of education. As well as staging a sit-in at the King's Gate building on the university campus, which resulted in the finance building being temporarily closed, they have submitted an application to the department for education to turn their occupied space ...
Alfred Stevens and Julian Langevin report on a cold yet inspiring protest in Manchester that demonstrated a growing radicalism and a thirst for politics. Over 1500 students from schools, colleges and universities marched through Manchester as part of the second national day of action against the cuts in education and the rise in fees. The police ...
Alfred Stevens has been sleeping in the Roscoe Building for three days. Day 4 in the Roscoe Occupation. The occupants woke up around 10am, it was a Saturday so they deserved a lie in, to find that overnight they'd received messages of solidarity from not only the 'Bard of Barking' Billy Bragg but also from the ...
The 30 or so students that held the building last night woke up bright and early to get propaganda out around the university, advertising the day school today and winning support for their protest. This included teams working in shifts flyering, getting posters up and a banner drop from the University of Manchester Precinct bridge. The ...
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 ...
On Monday (22nd November) members from Communist Students joined around 50 students from Manchester Metropolitan University in the occupation of a lecture theatre in the University's Geoffrey Manton building. The occupation was in protest against the cuts to higher education both on a national scale and at their university specifically. ...
By Cat Rylance. Around 80 students met today at the University of Manchester Students’ Union to discuss where we should go next after Wednesday’s NUS demonstration. This number was a significant improvement on the 15 or so who have been attending the anti-cuts meetings this term. The prospect for occupation was quickly raised by three to ...
James Turley calls for troops out of Afghanistan now On August 20, the population of Afghanistan (or some of it, at any rate) went to the polls to elect their president. Hamid Karzai, the incumbent, remains the favourite, as the votes are counted. The mood in much of the western media, at the outset, was cautiously optimistic. ...
Bailiffs are arriving at 10.30 on Wednesday morning. Hands Off Lewisham Bridge are asking for your support in resisting the eviction. We need as many people as possible to stay overnight on Tuesday. If you can't stay overnight then please come down as early as possible on Wednesday morning to support the occupation. We want to let ...
Around 4pm on Tuesday afternoon around 30 students from London Metropolitan University (LMU) staged occupied the fifth floor of a University building on Commercial Road. The occupation took place in the context of threats to axe over 550 jobs at the institution. The university is greeted with massive bills from the Higher Education Funding Council ...
On Thursday May 7 Communist Students were up at the crack of dawn to attend the picket lines at London Metropolitan University, showing our support for the strike action against outrageous cuts proposals following severe mismanagement and bureaucracy. The pickets were quite well attended and there was a positive mood amongst the strikers. Students largely ...
The occupation tactic is spreading, students, workers and parents their all at it. Parents in Greenwich have taken to occupying the school to stop it being closed in September by the Council. They have released the below statement: "Following a false consultation parents at Charlotte Turner have occupied their school. We have protested outside the town ...