A fighting programme to build the student encampments for Gaza
DISCLOSE ALL FINANCES!
Universities should open their books to a democratic inquiry by elected students’ representatives and the campus trade unions, with the power to terminate all contracts and research tied to war and occupation while guaranteeing jobs and funding.
END MARKETISATION!
The UK government must fully fund education to disincentivise universities from gambling our fees on dodgy companies and ‘vanity projects’. Scrap tuition fees, cancel student debt, and reintroduce living grants for all students.
BROADEN THE PROTESTS!
Our protests would be strengthened if more students – and workers – joined the action. Encampments could collectively organise:
- Stalls and leafleting sessions, where we can talk to other students about our action and encourage them to join
- A rally with speakers invited from local trade union branches, and students from other universities, colleges and schools nearby
- A lobby of the local MP or councillors alongside other students, workers and trade unionists, to demand they explain their position on the Israeli state’s onslaught in Gaza
- A march to a local school or college, encouraging students there to walk out and join us for a protest
- A mass meeting open to all who want to discuss how we can build this movement against war, terror and oppression
SUs SHOULD BE ON OUR SIDE!
Students’ unions are elected to give students a voice – they should call a special meeting, open to all students and staff, to discuss the above demands and other ideas to build our movement. Students need fighting, democratic organisations that represent our interests against management, the government and big business.
WE NEED A POLITICAL VOICE!
Winning a free, democratic and genuinely ethical education system means fighting to take wealth and power off the capitalist elites. Starmer’s Labour Party won’t even begin to fight for this. We need a new workers’ party with socialist policies to end war, oppression and capitalism.
Socialist Students is part of the Trade Unionist and Socialist Coalition (TUSC). You could stand with us as an anti-war, socialist student candidate in the upcoming general election.
SOCIALIST STUDENTS SAYS:
- End the siege of Gaza! For the immediate withdrawal of the Israeli military from the occupied territories
- For a mass struggle of the Palestinians, under their own democratic control, to fight for liberation
- For the building of independent workers’ parties in Palestine and Israel, and links between them
- For an independent, socialist Palestinian state, alongside a socialist Israel, with guaranteed democratic rights for all minorities, as part of the struggle for a socialist Middle East
- No trust in capitalist politicians, internationally or in Britain. Fight to build a workers’ party in Britain that stands for socialism and internationalism.
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