Youth
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By Adam Booth (Cambridge)
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Thursday, 13 January 2011 |
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On Tuesday 11th
January, Edward Woollard, an 18-year-old A-level student from Hampshire, was
sentenced to 2 years and 8 months imprisonment for dropping a fire-extinguisher
from the Millbank Tower during the student protest on the 10th
November 2010. Whilst we cannot and should not condone the actions of Woollard,
it is clear that the courts – along with the government – are clearly trying to
make an example of this individual student as a threat to any future
protestors.
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By Josh Holroyd (ULU Marxists)
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Thursday, 06 January 2011 |
 In response to the 10th November demonstration, students across the
country decided to go into occupation. Before Christmas there were 30 of
such occupations. Coupled with the increasingly militant demonstrations
against the Government’s attacks on education, these university
occupations are hugely significant in so far as they have radicalised
not only students at the occupied universities but also school students
and even people outside of education.
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By Militant Student Editorial Board
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Thursday, 06 January 2011 |
 The events of the past two months represent an important shift in the
consciousness of British students. Having grown up knowing only
economic boom, previously labelled as “apathetic” by the media, stood up
and made their voices heard. Their message is simple and has found an
echo across many layers of society: “We will not be forced to pay for a
crisis we did not cause!” This wave of protests and occupations has
swept even the most deeply entrenched prejudices of the last period from
the political landscape, leaving many (both on the right and the left)
trailing in its wake.
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By Socialist Appeal
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Thursday, 16 December 2010 |
 Following on from last Thursday's mass demonstration in London of youth
against the increases in college fees, the media has been full of
reports of how the police are now going to hunt down the troublemakers.
It seems this manhunt is being given top priority - murderers, rapists
and robbers can relax, the police are now otherwise engaged!
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By Glasgow Socialist Appeal Supporters
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Friday, 10 December 2010 |
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Following a successful day of action on November 24th that saw up to one
thousand school, college and university students mobilise across the
city Glasgow students again took to the streets and demonstrated on
their campuses on December 8th and 9th with the vote on fees looming.
This was despite the terrible weather conditions that had seen snowfall
down transport across much of the west of Scotland and close the M8
between Edinburgh and Glasgow. Schools were closed and the Universities
had cancelled exams but this wasn’t enough to deter the movement.
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By Steve Jones
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Friday, 10 December 2010 |
 Here are some more photos fronm the Dec 9th protest in London.
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By Steve Jones
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Friday, 10 December 2010 |
 Here are some photos from the Dec 9th Demo in London against the student fees increase.
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By Socialist Appeal
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Monday, 06 December 2010 |
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On the 9th of December, MPs will vote
on whether or not to burden our youth with massive debt and force
working class kids out of further education by removing their EMA.
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By Ben Peck
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Monday, 06 December 2010 |
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Drastic times call for drastic
measures. The price the Tories want ordinary working people to pay for
the crisis of their system is the wholesale destruction of the basic
minimum living standards of a civilised existence for millions. There
are no two ways about it. This is open class conflict, where one class
will succeed and one class will fail.
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By Josh Holroyd, University of London Union Marxists
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Friday, 03 December 2010 |
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At around 12:15 on Wednesday the 24th
of November, UCL students who had gathered in the main quad for a rally
as part of the ‘National Day of Action Against Education Cuts and Fees’
marched into the Jeremy Bentham Room in the UCL main building amidst
chants of “no ifs, no buts, no education cuts”. A vote on whether to
occupy was then immediately taken and passed by an overwhelming
majority.
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By Chris Burrows, Leeds University Marxists
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Friday, 03 December 2010 |
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Students occupying Leeds University’s
most important lecture theatre have now been in occupation for a week,
in opposition to the Tory attacks on higher education.
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By Martin Hall, University of Bristol Marxists
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Friday, 03 December 2010 |
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Last Wednesday around 480 students and
staff filled the largest meeting room of the Bristol Students Union.
This was an Extraordinary General Meeting, called as a result of a 24
hour occupation of the union last week.
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By Walaa Quisay, SOAS university
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Friday, 03 December 2010 |
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At the Emergency General Meeting in
SOAS November 18th the students voted for the occupation of space that
the university usually rents out for money. SOAS is a unique institution
because it focuses on a variety of topics and languages such as those
from Asia, Africa, and the Middle East. The school has already announced
cuts to 95 specialist courses
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By Steve Brown. Northern Regional Co-ordinator LRC.
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Wednesday, 01 December 2010 |
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I found myself stuck in Newcastle
on Monday night due to the cancellation of the busses and took the opportunity
to walk over to the fine arts building at the University to see how the Students
were getting on in their occupation and asked if there was any other support
that they might need.
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By Ben Peck, University of London Union Marxists
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Monday, 29 November 2010 |
The magnificent movement of the
students on November 10th has proved to be far from a flash in the pan,
as the recent wide-scale actions that have followed show. Some estimates
are that over 100,000 students were mobilised nationally on Wednesday
24th, far exceeding the number of the first demonstration. The
involvement of a large amount of school students, in particular, has
been a further new development. The movement clearly has momentum and
large layers of the population show open sympathy for the plight of the
youth. Another day of action has been called for tomorrow, Tuesday
November 30th, which should be given the fullest support. Questions are
being raised, however, as how does the student movement progress from
here?
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