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My university is trying to ban me from protesting – because they know it works
‘This protest is about students reclaiming possession of education, rejecting cuts and defending our right to protest. We will not be silenced.’ Photo: Shelly Asquith Almost a month ago, I discovered...
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‘We need to empower students to change their society and make it the society...
William Pinkney-Baird interviews Dario Celaschi, standing for Vice President Society & Citizenship, in the third of a series of interviews with some of the left-wing candidates for NUS leadership...
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‘We need to get students to leverage the political potential in the local...
William Pinkney-Baird interviews Abdi-aziz Suleiman, standing for Vice President Union Development at NUS Conference next week, in the sixth and final of a series of interviews with some of the...
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Grassroots radicalism drives change at NUS
Young Green David Stringer gives his thoughts on this year’s NUS Conference. Photo: William Pinkney-Baird. For two decades the NUS has had a reputation as both a fluffy debating club, and a union which...
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Are we ready to shake things up?
Collage by Sahaya James This election has been transformative for the Greens: we have seen an incredible surge in support and membership, we have provided voters a Green voice in an unprecedented 571...
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National free education demo called for 4th November
Last November’s national demo for free education, which brought 10,000 people to the streets of London. The National Campaign Against Fees and Cuts (NCAFC) has called another demonstration on 4...
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The student movement is about to kick off – here’s 4 things Young Greens can do
‘Students not consumers!’ Callum Cant taking part in a Free Education Demo this March. Photo: William Pinkney-Baird The student movement is about to kick off. This is not an original observation –...
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Divestment, occupation and an unapologetically radical student movement
Photo: Yali Rosa I’m an elected Sabbatical Officer at UEA and I recently participated in an occupation on my campus which was the culmination of a two year campaign calling for UEA to join institutions...
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Students at Durham held a funeral for accessible education – here’s why
Photo: Grace Tseng Last Tuesday, 8th December, students at Durham held a funeral for accessible education. This was a direct response to the latest announcement of an increase college fees and...
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Five ways you can help the UCL rent strike
Photo: UCL Cut the Rent This Monday, students at UCL escalated their rent campaign and declared an indefinite rent strike. 150 students in UCL halls are withholding what amounts to £250,000 from their...
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Students fight deportation of NUS Officer for Refugees
Photo courtesy of @Julz2k5 on Twitter. Students across Britain are organising protests demanding the immediate release of fellow student Lord Elias Mensah Apetsi, who faces deportation on Tuesday to...
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NUS: poison or panacea to the student movement?
Photo: National Union of Students Watching the setting sun cast an orange glow across the English Channel from the Brighton seafront, your eyes are instantly drawn to the rusting remains of the city’s...
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UK students to fight Samsung’s labour rights abuses
Image credit: People & Planet Demonstrations outside High Street stores across the UK and Ireland are being organised for 25th-26th October as part of 48 Hours of Action Against Samsung. The...
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The success of the student divestment campaign shows what the climate...
Over half of UK universities have now made a commitment to divest from fossil fuels in some way. Of the 78 divested institutions, a majority of their commitments cover all fossil fuels and a majority...
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Calling for a tuition fee rebate is playing into the hands of the neoliberal...
Free and fair education should be for life – not just during pandemics. That’s why I won’t be joining campaigns which call for students to have a year off fees as a result of covid disruption. Instead...
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10 years on from the student revolt, marketisation is still haunting our...
How can we be in a situation where we are seeing students trapped behind fences on their own campuses? People have rightly reacted with horror, but this is a logical consequence of the marketisation...
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Where next for the student movement in 2021?
2020 saw the UK student movement truly demonstrate its strength. Rent strikes erupted in student halls up and down the country in response to exploitative accommodation contracts. Climate activists...
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Campaigners celebrate as University of Leicester becomes 94th UK university...
The global movement for fossil fuel divestment took another step forward today. The University of Leicester has become the 94th university in the UK to commit to excluding fossil fuel companies from...
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