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Occupied Sheffield

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By Laurie Smith, CS Sheffield Sheffield University became the 34th university to be occupied on Monday March 16 when students took control of two lecture theatres in the Hicks building right outside the Student's Union. The willingness of students to act in a radical fashion has been thoroughly inspiring, and this has been no different in ...

All Out to Defend Adrian Swain

Members of the National Union of Teachers (NUT) at St Paul's Way Community School in the East London borough of Tower Hamlets have given a substantial boost to the campaign to win the reinstatement of their victimsed NUT rep, Adrian Swain. In an indicative ballot, conducted by post, 81% of NUT members said 'yes' to ...

Solidarity action

Cat Rylance reports on the Hands Off the People of Iran meeting at Manchester University On October 22, after two weeks of building, holding a daily stall, leafleting and publicising, the Manchester branch of Hands Off the People of Iran held a meeting to discuss the situation in Iran. The meeting, held in the University of ...

HOPI meeting at King’s

Public meeting: Solidarity with the students! No to imperialist intervention! October 8, 7pm, Room K4U.12, Kings College, The Strand, London Behrooz Karimizadeh and Kaveh Abbasian are prominent leaders of the student movement in Iran and have recently fled to Britain. Behrooz has only recently been released after enduring over four months of imprisonment and torture at the hands ...

More Students Arrested in Iran

5 Oct Demonstration

On Sunday 5th Oct a group of Iranian students gathered in front of the Islamic Majlis (parliament) in Tehran protesting at their expulsion and other restrictions from the university authorities. These students are known as "marked students" - a term used by the Ministry of Higher Education to describe students with no security ...

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