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25 May 2012
Demo against cuts at Salford university
Despite exams, 50 students and staff attended a lunchtime protest against swingeing cuts at Salford university yesterday, 24th May, including the closure of Italian and across the board reductions in staffing, writes Salford Socialist Party.
2 May 2012
UCU joins 10 May strike - student solidarity needed
Lecturers and academic staff in most of the UK's universities and colleges will be joining other public sector workers on strike on 10 May against attacks on pensions, writes Edmund Schluessel, Cardiff University UCU, personal capacity and Cardiff University student.
28 March 2012
Brighton Uni: Socialist Students five votes from victory
Frequently dominated by populist politics and joke candidates, student union elections are too often the stomping ground of the apolitical and the right-wing bureaucracy that dominate local student unions and large sections of the National Union of Students (NUS), writes Jack Poole, Brighton University Socialist Students.
15 March 2012
Fighting Con-Dem attacks on education
Southampton's Tory hypocrite brought to book: Education activists in Southampton confronted universities minister David Willetts on Friday 9 March over his plans to privatise education and the introduction of £9,000 fees, writes Josh Asker, Southampton University Socialist Students.
Student walk-out and demonstration 14 March 2012, photo by Paul Mattsson
15 March 2012
14 March - Socialist Students get a response
Across Britain, thousands of students took part in the 14 March protest called, but not built for, by the National Union of Students against £9,000 tuition fees, the ending of Education Maintenance Allowance student payments, privatisation and cuts...
7 March 2012
Quebec: Students engage in 'indefinite' general strike action
Tens of thousands in battle against massive rise in tuition fees: A powerful students' struggle is sweeping over Quebec, the French speaking province of Canada. Over 65,000 university and high school students are currently engaged in an indefinite general strike
7 March 2012
NUS elections - Vote Socialist Students for a fighting student leadership
It's election time for Britain's student unions and once again thousands will be asked to vote 'Joe Bama for president (yes we can!)' or 'Ben Johnson for education - BJ for satisfaction', writes Claire Laker-Mansfield, Socialist Students national organiser.
18 February 2012
'Capitalism fails the poor' agree Oxford University students!
The world famous Oxford Union was the setting for a debate on the proposition: "This House Believes That Capitalism has Failed the Poor"
8 February 2012
Leeds Trinity students fight canteen cuts
Leeds Trinity University College canteen services have been stopped on Saturdays and Sundays for the foreseeable future. Staff have been made redundant and others have had their hours cut, writes Samantha Garratt, Leeds Trinity Union general secretary.
18 November 2011
Support Egyptian students' struggle at the German University in Cairo
The CWI website socialistworld.net has reported this week on a students' struggle for an independent, democratic students' union at the German University in Cairo (GUC)...
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