Police and Glasgow University management were left embarassed yesterday by a remarkable turn of events. After bosses called in the police to forcibly evict students from a seven week long occupation, the evictees marched a few hundred metres up the road, took over the university's main building and, after refusing to back down in negotiations, ...
Students at the London School of Economics have taken action against their university's financial and other links with Libya's increasingly tyrannical dictator, Muammar al-Gaddafi. We reproduce their statement below. In the past week Gaddafi has launched a war on demonstrators demanding his overthrow; flying in foreign mercenaries, using snipers to assassinate protesters, and ordering military ...
This is the leaflet Communist Students were distributing at Saturday's 'student coordination'. (Click here or on pic to view the PDF) A report on the day's events will be up soon. Our motion to conference on Gaza, the student movement, and Marxism is also on there, but as it turned out no motions were taken on ...
by Laurie Smith Alliance for Worker's Liberty members have been trying to smuggle their poisonous pro-imperialist politics into the Sheffield occupation for Gaza. For those not in the know, the AWL are a small Marxist group bureaucratically controlled by the dear leader Sean Matgamna and a close circle around him. Uniquely on the left, they refuse ...
Chris Strafford reports on a struggle that brought many new activists into the movement On Friday March 6 the long-running student occupation at the University of Manchester ended. After 31 days of pro-Gaza solidarity in three different buildings students left after forcing the vice-chancellor into negotiations. The whole episode has re-energised the student movement - ...
After 31 days occupation at Manchester University the Vice-Chancellor Alan Gilbert has now agreed to enter negotiations with students concerning their demands. Below is a report from the occupation blog on this development, and an excellent video report of some recent events connected to the occupation movement in Manchester. Check it out. Report from: http://manunioccupation.wordpress.com/2009/03/06/onward-toward-victory-for-the-manchester-intifada/ ! ONWARD ...
Here is a report and photos from Simon, a member of Communist Students at UEL. The rolling wave of student occupations at universities across the country continued to spread last week, to the University of East London. Lindsey German had been invited by the student Stop the War Society to talk about Gaza. After the meeting ...
We have just received news that students of the Byam Shaw School of Art at Central St Martins are in occupation demanding the reversal of a number of course cut-backs and their representation by an elected student officer. Communist Students sends solidarity greetings. They have started an occupation blog here: http://byamshawpeoplesuniversity.blogspot.com/ Here is their letter detailing their ...
Tara Santiago has sent in this report from King's College London King’s Occupation ends with significant success After 13 days of occupation an agreement has finally been reached between the negotiation team and the Principle of King’s College London, Rick Trainor. As of 1200 hours today (Sunday) the student protesters will evacuate the lecture theatre on the ...
Communist Students supporter Tara Santiago reports from the King's College Occupation King’s is holding it’s third day of occupation in the lecture theatre K2.31 after a wonderful show of solidarity between the Hands Off The People of Iran- organised Moshe Machover talk, and the sit-in protesters at the Strand. Contrary to what certain commentators of the recently ...
There is currently a significant wave of student occupations of university buildings taking place in solidarity with the people of Gaza. There are at least eleven of these occupations that I know of already, and more on the cards. See below for links to the blogs that these occupations have set up, as well as ...