Socialist Students sends our solidarity to the thousands of students occupying universities across the US against the ongoing onslaught on Gaza.
We condemn the brutal police suppression of these protests, and note the rotten role played by university executives and pro-capitalist politicians who have encouraged these attacks on students and staff.
It is not only in the US where students have faced repression for protesting in solidarity with the Palestinian people.
In the UK, the Tory government has given universities the go-ahead to suspend students and student societies protesting against the slaughter in Gaza, like at SOAS. University bosses have hired private security firms to spy on student activists and forcibly break up protests. At Queen Mary University, management authorised security to raid the campus office of the University and Colleges Union (UCU).
To defend against attacks on our safety and right to protest, students need to be organised. We need our own democratic organisations, which link up with the workers’ movement and fight back on all the issues affecting students – including the war on Gaza, but also the cost-of-living crisis, student housing crisis, and cuts to staff.
If you want to organise a protest against the brutal onslaught on Gaza, and defend students against the ramping-up of repressive measures on campus, then get in touch with Socialist Students.
- Stop the Gaza slaughter – for the permanent withdrawal of the Israeli military from the occupied territories.
- Solidarity with students occupying universities across the US. Stop arming Israeli state terror!
- Defend the right to protest on campus. SUs must lead campaigns to defend any students victimised for protesting against war and oppression.
- Kick out the Tories! But Starmer’s Labour is no alternative. Build a new workers’ party with socialist policies to end war, austerity and capitalism.
- For a socialist Middle East and world!
Socialist Students 