With less than two weeks to go, students from Cornwall to Dundee are organising to walk out on Friday 20 November, with action planned in 100+ towns and cities
Press release from Socialist Students
With less than two weeks to go, walkouts are now planned at more than 200 schools, colleges and universities for Friday 20 November, when students across Britain will join the International Youth Strike under the slogan “fight for our future, not their wars”. Socialist Students, which is leading the campaign in Britain, has published the full list of walkouts on its website, with walkouts planned in 100+ towns and cities and the main London protest at 12pm in Parliament Square.
Socialist Students national chair Adam Powell-Davies said: “With less than two weeks to go, students at more than 200 schools, colleges and universities are getting ready to walk out, and more are signing up every day. Young people are told there is no money for our education, for mental health services or for decent jobs and homes. But Labour has cut university teaching grants two years running while planning to raise military spending to close to £80 billion a year by 2029. We refuse to pay for their wars and their crisis.
“On 20 November we will be walking out alongside young people in France, Germany, Spain, Italy and across Europe. Any student who wants to walk out should sign up on our website, and we will help them organise it. This is a fight for our future, not their wars.”
The International Youth Strike was called by youth and student organisations from across Europe at a meeting in Cologne in June, where Socialist Students was present from Britain. In Britain, the National Education Union has backed the strike, the National Union of Students is taking part, and UCU and UNISON have called for protests in every university on the same day. Students in France, Germany, Spain, Italy and other countries will also take action on 20 November, and in Italy the CGIL, the country’s largest trade union confederation, has called a 24-hour general strike on the same day.
