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 ...
Collective discipline is absolutely fundamental to majoritarian politics, writes CS member James Turley (first published in the Weekly Worker) There is a need for sober analysis of the strengths and weaknesses of the Real Democracy Now! movement in Spain. Clearly, the inspiration provided by the Arab Spring is both its great strength and weakness. ...
James Turley discusses the critical problem of organisation in the student movement When I wrote for the Weekly Worker on the subject of the November 10 Millbank occupation, I warned that we might not have it so easy on the next round of anti-fees protests ('After Millbank: the way forward', November 18). One ...
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 ...
By Callum Williamson. Students at Peter Symonds College in Winchester had been preparing for weeks to take part in the national wave of action against hikes in tuition fees, the scrapping of EMA (a particularly unpopular move amongst college students) and cuts to education in general. For two weeks beforehand there were meetings of 50 students, ...
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, ...
Leaflet distributed in Manchester today during the national day of protest against tuition fees and education cuts.
Over 80 students crammed themselves in the learning centre of the John Roan Sixth Form, Greenwich today to hear eye witness accounts from students who marched alongside education workers last Wednesday on the massive demo against tuition fee increases. Students are in uproar at the prospect of being saddled with debts of over £44, 000 ...
Laurie Smith sees the question of unity being further depoliticised. The May 22 Right to Work campaign meeting at Friends Meeting House in central London was a big success organisationally. Over 600 attended. They were, however, in the main, members of the Socialist Workers Party, although ex-SWPers Chris Nineham and Lindsey German, who are now part ...
Israel's far-right Foreign Minister, Avigdor Lieberman, came to the British Foreign Office on Whitehall today to meet his counterpart, the British Foreign Secretary, David Miliband and the Shadow Foreign Secretary, William Hague, as part of his bid to strengthen ties between Europe and Israel. Members of Communist Students joined the Stop the War Coalition protest ...
Twenty students at Noushirvan University in Babol were prevented from entering the campus, insulted, and beaten by the University Guards and plainclothes security officers who met them in front of the campus on 13 April 2009. Students at Noushirvan University started an unlimited sit in on 11 April 2009, after they were threatened by university authorities ...
Pupils at Calder Valley High School in Mytholmroyd, West Yorkshire have staged a protest walk-out in protest at the suspension of two teachers - Mrs Rusty and Mr Cann. Over 250 students were involved in the protest in a fantastic show of support for the teachers. Calum Paramor, a Year 11 student who helped to organise ...
Pro-Zionist agenda is exposed for all to see, writes John-Jo Sidwell Another week and another excellent protest in solidarity with the people of Gaza. However, with the ceasefire and the withdrawal of Israeli troops on January 18, there was bound to be a certain ebbing. The January 24 demonstration in London - beginning outside the BBC in ...