Tag Archives: youth & students

The capitalist remodelling of Higher Education and the communist alternative

 The goal of reforms to higher education undertaken by successive governments has been to subject universities to the immediate needs of the capitalist class. Through pouring money into universities, funding research, the tuition of future employees and through creating links with specific courses, capital is remodelling higher education to benefit its operations directly. The government ...

Educate, Organise, Politicise!

This is the text of a leaflet distributed by CS members at the NUS anti-cuts demonstration on Wednesday 21st November. Click on the image to download a PDF version. The world is in economic chaos – and social devastation is everywhere the result. Around 40,000 Greek children are starving, living standards across Europe are plummeting and ...

Keeping up the pressure

Ben Lewis reports on a promising weekend of student action and plans for the battles ahead. If one image best summarises the radical transformation of the student movement within the last year, it is that of a rather concerned policeman escorting the supine National Union of Students president, Aaron Porter, from last Saturday's ...

EAN: No to unity

Ben Bawerk reports on the conference of the Education Activist Network On Sunday November 1 around 400 students and lecturers (mainly the former) filled King’s College Strand campus to attend the Education Activist Network conference. EAN is the latest ‘broad front’ group of the Socialist Workers Party in the student movement following the ...

Society’s fear of youth

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In today’s society there is a growing fear of the youth, one does not have to look too hard in the bourgeois press to find periodic waves of anti-youth hysteria. The bourgeoisie play on the fears of the elderly and middle England, promising to get tough on ‘anti-social behaviour’ and tough on the causes ...

French workers and students resist

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Special report from Frances Grahl, a student in Tours, on the general strike and growing student unrest in France France came together for a day on Thursday 29th January as public and private sector unions came out in a general strike. Between 11 and 2.52 million people marched to protest against a series of government reforms ...

Socialist Youth Network conference report

by Nick Jones The Socialist Youth Network (SYN), the Labour Representation Committee’s (LRC) youth organisation, met at the University of London Union on the 29th March for its annual conference. It has been over a year since the last SYN conference. Readers may remember that Owen Jones, Co-Chair of SYN conference last year, had perused ...