Scrolling online, it doesn’t take long to see the horror of war, climate change and racist ideas being stoked. Meanwhile, we are being forced to pay for increasing rents, tuition fees and the cost of living.
But we refuse to accept that future. That’s why we will be joining the international youth strike on 20 November – walking out and protesting to fight for our future, not their wars.
If you are preparing to be a youth striker, or a socialist campaigner at your school, college or uni, you can’t miss Socialism 2026, taking place less than a week before N20.
A thousand socialists, students and young people will meeting in London 14-15 November. On Sunday 15 November, Socialist Students has been invited to host a youth rally. It will invite youth strikers from across Europe to speak, including from Germany where on 25 September 40,000-plus walked out of lessons to protest. Socialism 2026 will be the best possible preparation for the big day – N20.
Across the weekend of discussion and debate, there will be the chance to meet and discuss with hundreds of other students building the youth strike at their school, college or uni.
Cumbria uni – linking war, climate, and cost of living
Mollie Nixon, Cumbria Socialist Students
Every year, students arrive at Cumbria, expecting an escape to nature, only to find a university much like any other – prioritising profit over academic integrity. Socialist Party and Socialist Students members from Carlisle and the rest of the north west hosted street stalls outside freshers’ fair.
Climate change came up frequently. Many students pick Cumbria for its proximity to impressive natural landscapes. Students fear this environment being lost.
Many jumped at the chance to sign up to start an official Socialist Students society on campus, after finding out about the ‘Defence Universities Alliance’, which Cumbria uni is part of. The Ministry of Defence is using university funding to covertly funnel students into pro-military research and job roles.
This led many students that we spoke to expressing interest in the youth strikes on 20 November. Some even took posters to put up in communal kitchens.
In conversation, students made the connection between climate and other struggles. Cumbria uni is promoting the military, whilst simultaneously raking in student fees for being located in a UNESCO World Heritage site.
Students raised how much they are paying for their ‘Circuit Go’ laundry – some over £6 per wash at student accommodation. This gave us a great opportunity to raise Socialist Students’ previous dealings with Circuit Go, and the possibility for a local campaign.
40 people signed up to Socialist Students – a testament to students’ desire for action. We have since heard that the university bosses weren’t happy about us being there!
It’s no wonder. The uni is currently threatening staff with ‘fire and rehire’, if they don’t downgrade their pension scheme.
The last thing the uni wants is an organised Socialist Students presence on campus, who would fully back a staff strike!
Southampton uni – capitalist system links the crises
James Gretton, Southampton Socialist Students
We held a public tally, asking participants which issue on the agenda for the 20 November international youth strike resonated most for them. The climate crisis – an existential threat – was the most voted-on issue. Others recognised that all the issues are interconnected, and exacerbated by capitalism.
The runner-up issue was war and militarisation. Many students were aware about Germany’s increased military spending and possible reintroduction of conscription. The new UK Labour chancellor in Andy Burnham’s government, John Healey, has hinted at similar public spending cuts to pay for the military in next month’s Budget.
In the coming weeks, Southampton Socialist Students workshop meetings will cover the alleged ‘Burnham bounce’; an introduction to socialism; real alternatives to Labour and the capitalist system it presides over; and issues for the 20 November walkout.
We’re working with the Young Greens, and other local organisations, including Southampton Uni Green Society, to build for the biggest possible student strike. Socialist Students is prepared to engage with both newcomers and returning students, putting forward the need for socialist change.
Exeter uni students reject future of debt and climate destruction
Myles Hatcher, Devon Socialist Students
Students saw the International Youth Strike as compelling, and something they wanted to get involved with. Discussions around the housing crisis, spiralling debt, and endless wars were echoed by many students. A large number identified themselves as socialists or on the left.
On the second day, university security eventually asked us for our credentials, and moved us on from campus. We moved to the exit away from the university grounds, and continued our leafleting and discussions unabated.
We cleared through all of our material. Over 30 students signed up to the International Youth Strike.
Exeter uni currently lacks a Socialist Students society. But there is clearly a keen interest in getting involved in campaign activity and building something. We hope this will develop into a student society with regular meetings, political discussion, and action on campus.
Even the Labour society showed an interest, letting slip that their numbers are dwindling. The Labour Party is unable to offer young people anything to fight for.
Students are looking forward, and beginning to see what they are going to inherit. Not the prosperous future they were promised, but climate destruction, debt, and a continuing cost-of-living crisis. More young people see through capitalist lies.
York College students support £15-an-hour minimum wage
Dan Bassey, York Socialist Students
We had a large volume of students come by our campaign stall.
At first, students were hesitant. But after handing out a few leaflets, an increasing number came over to talk, eager to hear what we had to say.
Conversations covered the rise of Reform and the far right, workers’ rights, and the climate crisis. The campaign to increase the minimum wage to £15 an hour particularly resonated. This would double what college students aged 16-18 currently earn, as a minimum.
Young people are becoming increasingly disillusioned with mainstream politics, and are searching for something that can actually improve their lives. We help bring socialist ideas to them. Seven new people signed up to our walkout on 20 November.
Farnham – University for the Creative Arts – students take action
Huw James, Aldershot and North Hants Socialist Students
The university’s facilities are being run into the ground, despite increased tuition fees. Students rightly wonder where their fees are actually going. One student even organised a sit-in protest against proposed cuts to library services.
Students are worried about being saddled with debt when they graduate, then struggling to find employment in an increasingly harsh jobs market. They support the Socialist Students and Socialist Party policies of free education, nationalisation, and a £15-an-hour minimum wage.
Young people want better than what is being offered to them by capitalism. And frankly, who can blame them? 12 new students signed up to get involved with Socialist Students, and find out more.
Leicester WQE college – chats and debates
Ikra Rehman, Leicester Socialist Students
This is the first time in recent memory that we have organised campaign stalls at WQE sixth-form college in Leicester. Now, regularly, students come up to chat or debate, or we see them discussing the ‘no to war’ leaflets we’re handing out.
More young people are becoming interested in politics, consider themselves socialist, and have a desire to want to make difference and be part of something.
Notre Dame college, Leeds – crowds at socialist stand
Iain Dalton, Leeds Socialist Students
Calling out ‘No to Farage, no to Trump, join the Socialist opposition’, we had Notre Dame sixth-form college students taking leaflets and crowding round our stall near the college.
15 students left the details to join Socialist Students, including some from the nearby university walking past. We spoke to an organiser with the newly formed Green society at Leeds Arts Uni about how we could work together, to build for the 20 November international youth strike.
Nottingham Trent uni – money for war, nothing for youth
Seamus Smyth, East Midlands Socialist Students
There was anger about the constant wars around the world, particularly the British government’s role in supporting and financing them. This opened up wider discussions about why there always seems to be money for war, while young people face rising costs, insecure futures, and pressure around education and the cost of living.
There was willingness to discuss the wider political situation, and what a socialist alternative could look like. We distributed 250 leaflets in just two hours.
Students: What you can do
1 Build for the N20 international youth walkout!
On 20 November 2026, Socialist Students will be joining over 20 other youth organisations across Europe, walking out of classes to say: ‘Fight for our futures, not their wars!’
Can you collect names of fellow students who can build for the biggest possible walkout where you are?
2 Build Socialist Students at your campus, college or school
Socialist Students is a democratic nationwide socialist organisation which has groups active in over 50 schools, colleges and universities. In September 2025 it organised youth walkouts against the state visit of Donald Trump. Groups discuss socialist ideas, and put them into practice, fighting for decent services, against oppression and for socialist change.
Sign up to help build a group where you are.
3 Buy your Socialism 2026 ticket
On 14-15 November, days ahead of the N20 international youth walkout, over 1,000 socialist activists will come together in London for a weekend of discussion and electric Saturday night rally.
What role for direct action in the struggle for socialism? Are the Greens the type of party we need to transform the world? Does AI mean the end of the working class? They are some of the 30 discussion workshops taking place.
Sofia Pandolfi, South London Socialist Students organiser
On 25 September, German students will again be walking out of lessons against military conscription and rearmament. This is following ongoing youth strikes which have already mobilised 55,000 students in recent months, taking to the streets across the country. In response to government changes to military service policy aimed at assisting Germany’s militarisation plans, young people are showing they are not willing to fight for a government and establishment that attacks their rights, education, and futures.
Our own government is no better. While military spending continues to increase, more policies of austerity are being implemented as the government cuts down on the services young and working-class people depend on. 35 universities across the UK have become part of the UK government’s Defence Universities Alliance initiative to support future ‘defence capability’. Meanwhile, our higher education is plunging deeper into a funding crisis. As militarism becomes more entrenched in our universities, we have to build a socialist fightback on our campuses.
From meeting and discussing with students at various university freshers, we are seeing young people frustrated by a government and a system that offers us only wars and exploitation. Students have expressed worry over the uncertainty of our futures, the lack of opportunities that exist for us, and the international chaos we are living through. Hundreds of students so far have already signed up to find out more about joining Socialist Students because they recognise the need to get organised against a system that sacrifices our futures for the profits of the capitalist bosses.
Socialist Students is organising a solidarity demonstration with German youth strikers on 25 September, building international action amongst young people. Join our solidarity rally to show we are standing up against militarisation, war, and austerity. Build the international youth fightback for our futures, not their wars!
The world is in crisis: wars, climate catastrophe, youth unemployment and the rising cost of living. Meanwhile, the big-business billionaires only get richer.
Millions of young people despair at the prospect of our futures being torn up and thrown away, while the powerful elites compete for evermore power and profits.
But we won’t accept that. That’s why we will be joining the international youth walkouts on 20 November, together with over 20 other youth organisations across Europe.
We are fighting for our futures. Billionaire-funded politicians like Nigel Farage want to divide workers and young people – encouraging us to point fingers at each other rather than the big-business capitalists whose interests this rotten system serves.
Instead, young people across Europe will be taking united action together. Socialist Students will be building for the biggest possible walkouts and raising the need to take the wealth and power out of the hands of the capitalist bosses – so it can be put to use to meet the needs of all.
This September, almost 300,000 18-year-olds will enter the student housing market. Most of them will be making the first steps, praying a degree can secure them a stable job, into a spiral of debt which will follow them through decades of their working lives.
Putting themselves on average £50,000 in the red, students will hope against hope that they can cover their expenses whilst succeeding in full-time higher education. As young people suffer, Paragon Bank found that 91% of uni landlords reported positive returns – the highest of any sector. This has come by bumping rents up by 60% over the last decade, whilst cutting costs and leaving young people in cramped, mouldy houses.
On dozens of campuses around the UK, Socialist Students is already leading the way in putting forward what is needed to end market misery and housing hell at university. We are fighting alongside community activists and trade unionists for rent controls to cap rents and enforce decent standards, for a mass council house building programme, for living student grants not loans, and for fully funded, free education for all.
Rent strikes
At the beginning of the 2020s, a national wave of rent strikes erupted – and things have only got worse since. New struggles will come as the crisis of the profit-based capitalist system progresses.
It is clear that Burnham’s crumbs won’t offer any way out for young people under the thumb of the cost-of-living crisis. Socialist Party members will be taking part in Socialist Students activity at freshers fairs around the country, making the case that we need a party which will.
On 20 November we are planning to stamp our mark on our futures, fighting for affordable, safe housing and decent jobs – not more money for their wars. Fight for our futures!
In college, I was told that you could afford to go to university, no matter your personal background. And that loan repayment was merely an extra ‘tax’, that would be offset by the higher-paying job opportunities that a degree could offer.
I wasn’t told that in 2023, the loan repayment threshold had lowered from £29,000 to £25,000. Meaning that the annual amount repaid jumped from roughly £50 to £453, on an average graduate salary.
Recent headlines around loans being ‘missold’ point at the crushing reality of fees and debt faced by ambitious young students, with no other choice but to bite the bullet.
The system hasn’t always worked this way. In 1977, student fees were funded entirely by government, with a modest maintenance grant too!
This funding system was threatened under Margaret Thatcher’s Tory government. But due to the backlash from students, nothing changed until 1998.
Then, Tony Blair’s Labour government introduced an upfront fee of £1,000 a year. Labour tripled tuition fees in the 2000s.
And the Tory-Lib Dem coalition tripled fees again in 2012. Annual tuition fees are set to rise to over £10,000 next year.
While some have the ability to pay, the reality for many students is that tuition fees are unaffordable. A typical working-class student has parents unable to provide maintenance support. With most loan money going on rent, we’re forced to pick up a part-time job alongside full-time university, affecting our studies.
Graduates are rarely able to pay off the £50,000 in debt. Instead, many pay until it is written off after 40 years!
The loan system is a failed, predatory, capitalist solution to the higher education funding crisis. Further increases to student fees are completely unaffordable, and do nothing to address uni budget deficits.
Courses are being cut, staff laid off, and our universities continue to tumble down international rankings. Socialist Students calls to end the market-based fee model, and for a free, fully funded higher education system.
On 20 November 2026, Socialist Students will be joining over 20 other youth organisations across Europe, walking out of classes to say: ‘Fight for our futures, not their wars!’
Can you collect names of fellow students who can build for the biggest possible walkout where you are?
2) Build Socialist Students at your campus, college or school
Socialist Students is a democratic nationwide socialist organisation which has groups active in over 50 schools, colleges and universities. In September 2025 it organised youth walkouts against the state visit of Donald Trump. Groups discuss socialist ideas, and put them into practice, fighting for decent services, against oppression and for socialist change.
On 14-15 November, days ahead of the N20 international youth walkout, over 1,000 socialist activists will come together in London for a weekend of discussion and electric Saturday night rally.
What role for direct action in the struggle for socialism? Are the Greens the type of party we need to transform the world? Does AI mean the end of the working class? They are some of the 30 discussion workshops taking place.
Freshers and school students tickets from £5.
Reports from Freshers so far
Cambridge college students support fight for jobs and future
Philip Hodgson, Social Action Society, Hills Road College
The newly formed Social Action Society at Hills Road College in Cambridge, with the help of Socialist Students, held a campaign stall to build awareness for the 20 November youth strikes, and to circulate flyers on topics such as youth unemployment. Our group has affiliated to Socialist Students.
The response was positive, with students from Hills Road and neighbouring colleges expressing interest in collective action. People were keen to hear about the international strike, and what it has to do with them as UK college students.
The issue of youth unemployment particularly resonated with people. Increasingly, sixth-form students are in need of jobs to cope with upcoming university tuition fees and student housing. This was reflected in people’s choice of leaflets.
This stall, along with one inside the college premises, has meant our student society has quadrupled in membership. Young people are interested in learning about broader plans to protest our current system, and also uniting with likeminded individuals to enact change.
As a society with socialist ties and a unanimous anti-war stance, we hope to keep up momentum for these goals throughout the academic year. We look forward to hearing about other societies across the country doing the same.
Salford uni – money for education not war
Socialist Students kicked off freshers with a series of campaign stalls and events across the Salford campus. We met students and staff with diverse views – anarchists, communists, Labour and Reform supporters.
But almost everybody agreed that things are not working for working-class people, and that trade unions are essential to the fightback.
People agreed with ‘Funding, Not Fees’. The government is boosting military budgets. Meanwhile, unis face course cuts and closures.
Students thought that having multiple military stalls over the week was wrong. And that working-class people shouldn’t be forced to risk their lives in wars that serve the interests of the capitalist class.
21 people came to our first Socialist Students meeting centred around how we can fight the rise of the far right. But it developed into a much wider conversation on how working-class people are too often pushed into the military.
We are the first political society at Salford in 25 years. There is a huge appetite for political discussion and debate.
Five people attending our meeting were studying military apprenticeship courses. One said: “Why can’t we have discussions like this in the army?”
There’s a desire to fight back against the far right and super-rich, for nationalising energy and water under democratic workers’ control, and the socialist transformation of society.
Fin Cozens-Stott, Salford Socialist Students
Leicester socialist youth meeting: Fight for our future, not their wars
Alanah Carey-Peacher, Leicester Socialist Students
We hosted a public meeting on the struggles youth face today, and what the world that we are inheriting could look like.
We have known the climate crisis to be imminent for decades, yet the capitalist class and their politicians in charge have sat on their hands, and continued to let greed override need.
Now we see consistently worse weather, especially in the most poverty-stricken places on the planet. The extreme heat in the UK this summer is set to become the ‘new norm’.
One individual at the meeting stated that it feels like ‘what is the use in trying, when the places we all know and love could become unliveable in our lifetimes’. The bare necessities and amenities – which we all require to live a fulfilled life – are becoming harder to obtain.
There is a youth unemployment crisis. We are expected to have far more experience for a job than is possible!
We’ve paid through our teeth for our education. Yet it appears to count towards very little, despite costing us and our families a lot of debt.
Many young people have little choice but to opt for precarious job opportunities, such as zero-hour contracts. The capitalist class want us in this type of work, so it’s harder for us to unionise and fight for better conditions.
When we rely on the welfare state because of unemployment or poverty pay, the Labour government cuts benefits and threatens to take them away. It’s worsened by dodgy, invasive ‘review processes’ that claim we’re ‘fit’.
The cherry on top – increasing war and military spending – an immense toll on the working class. Increasing militarisation across Europe has sparked students to walk out on 20 November.
We’re demanding our governments fund education and our futures, instead of funding destruction. It’s more important than ever for the working class and young people to stand up.
Southampton college students struggling to cope
Nick Chaffey, Southampton Socialist students Organiser
While discussing with groups of students and staff at Southampton City College about the problems they face not in education, planning for a future came up – securing jobs, coping with the dangers of city life, and rising knife crime.
Staff explained how keen students are, signing up for apprenticeships, but finding it difficult to get an employer to take them on. Why doesn’t the council step in and offer training in construction, so we have a ‘direct works’ team to refurbish the 600 empty council homes that could dent the waiting list?
Southampton Labour council closed all its youth centres in 2012. Socialist’s fought those cuts, and we warned the council the impact it would have.
Young people should have access to safe activity and support. With a guaranteed job, training, or place in education, young people would have a genuine future.
Most weeks over the summer we’ve held a city centre campaign stall in the afternoon, before our we meet. We chat with young people who gather there after school and college finishes.
This week was better than ever. Young people from two other colleges, and one of the local unis, signed up for the 20 November walkout.
All had different reasons. Young people are angry.
We spoke to two young women who had grown up in care, recognising that their families could have stayed together if they had been given support at the time, when life was falling apart. Two young school students wanted to know how they could organise the walkout.
We explained how students had responded over climate change, with the huge school strikes. The key is get organised, and hold regular meetings.
Begin a discussion on the issues facing young people, and how the walkout can attract greater numbers, pressuring councils and governments into making concessions to the needs of young people.
Already, some who have signed up want to come to our meetings and hear more. Events are pushing young people to conclude they need to get active and fight for their future.
Greenwich students back working-class unity against racism and far right
Sofia Pandolfi, South London Socialist Students organiser
Socialist Students campaigned outside the welcome fair at the University of Greenwich Avery Hill campus, discussing with students the need to build a political voice on campus, and be part of the international youth strike on 20 November to fight for our future. 20 students signed up to know more about and join Socialist Students.
A few students who took leaflets said they did not consider themselves ‘political’. Despite claiming not to know about politics, they did understand from their experiences of worrying over getting a job, the extremely high cost of living, the travel expense of commuting to university, and the debt they’ll graduate with – the crises that young people face today.
We explained why the education and unemployment crisis we’re experiencing is a product of a system that prioritises profit, and invests in war over our future. Joining Socialist Students means fighting against cuts to our education and public services, funding our needs rather than increasing university tuition fees, and for a socialist transformation of society that can offer students and young people better opportunities and a real future.
Students expressed anger towards the far right, and worry over the threat of Reform. They were interested in the need to build unity amongst young and working-class people to fight back against the division and racism fuelled by the far right.
Brighton college students want to fight back
Callum Joyce, Brighton Socialist Students Organiser
We visited Brighton Met College to build support for the international youth walkouts on 20 November. One student remembered us from last year, when we were campaigning at the same college for walkouts against the state visit of US president Donald Trump to the UK.
We leafleted students during their lunch break. We had good discussions – they wanted to talk about the education funding crisis, what we thought about the Green Party, and the government’s plans to increase military spending.
We are revisiting the college every week. We arm students, who are looking to fight back, with a campaign and a strategy that they can use to do so.
We will invite university students that we meet at the freshers’ fairs to come join us campaigning at the college. For a lot of students, this is their first time discussing the idea of political activity. We hope it will be the basis for building a fighting student organisation here, and at other schools and colleges around Brighton.
As an immediate next step, we are organising a student protest on 25 September in solidarity with German school students, who are walking out against militarisation on that day – a launchpad for the Europe-wide action on 20 November.
Birmingham City Uni – angry about lack of jobs and education cuts
Nick Hart, Birmingham Socialist Students organiser
On the first day of welcome week, Birmingham City University Socialist Students got an excellent response. Both students and the public were angry at the lack of job opportunities for graduates, and universities prioritising the bottom line over quality of teaching.
One student walking past, stopped, took a leaflet, removed his earbuds, and told us he was just that minute listening to an audiobook of ‘What Is To Be Done’ by leader of the Russian Revolution Lenin.
Bristol youth looking for an alternative
Clint Hatcher, Bristol North Socialist Students Organiser
Our first campaign stall of this educational year was packed with students wanting to find out more on how they can organise in the college, and build towards the 20 November student walkouts. We’re hoping an informal meeting will take place after our next stall, with students wanting to find out more about setting up a Socialist Students society in their college.
The crisis of capitalism is apparent now more than ever for young people. Socialist’s can point to these issues, and put forward a programme to fight against rampant militarism and austerity.
As we enter the new educational year, all kinds of students are desperately seeking an alternative to the broken system they will inherit.
Since the start of September, the US has carried out further bombing on Iran. A recent strike hit a residential building and a wedding ceremony, killing four people and injuring more than 60. This isn’t an isolated incident, but an increasingly regular occurrence in the era of war which we live in today. The ongoing slaughter in Gaza is another stark example, so too the brutal attacks on Palestinians in the West Bank, and the many casualties in the Russia-Ukraine war.
In Gaza, hundreds of people have been killed this year, despite the so-called ‘ceasefire’. On top of this, Itamar Ben-Gvir, Israel’s minister of national security, demonstrated the cold callousness that capitalist politicians are capable of when he posted an AI-generated video on social media, depicting Palestinians being transported on a conveyor belt into a detention camp, alongside the caption ‘We promised – we delivered!’
Young people today are entering adulthood in a world characterised by instability and increasing wars. At the same time, the climate crisis is only getting worse, driving disasters such as the dreadful flooding in Nepal. In Britain, bus drivers have been forced to take strike action to win action over extreme working temperatures. Rents have also reached unsustainably high levels, with many young people unable to afford to move out of their parents’ houses, and with the idea of owning their own home growing increasingly out of reach.
These crises are not separate. They are symptoms of a system that puts profit above everything else, and therefore at the expense of everything else.
Climate change, war and division are all a result of the reckless destruction of the capitalist system. Therefore, we must fight for an alternative.
That is why Socialist Students is working with a growing number of youth organisations across Europe to build for a coordinated day of student walkouts and youth strikes on 20 November. We want to make it clear that we won’t stand for capitalist chaos, and are fighting internationally for our futures, not their wars.
Join the international youth strike on 20 November
Tom Gibson, Yorkshire Socialist Students
August saw thousands of students walk out of schools, colleges and universities in Australia against the reactionary right-populist politician Pauline Hanson.
Hanson uses dog-whistle politics against minority communities, particularly the Muslim and trans communities, while portraying herself as the only alternative to the establishment’s hated two-party system; a familiar pattern.
Despite a recent rise in the polls, she is very unpopular with younger Australians, the majority of whom are repulsed by her reactionary social views and anti-working class economic policies.
The walkouts were organised by the National Union of Students in response to increasingly repulsive rhetoric from Hanson, and took place all across Australia. Thousands turned out, despite the ‘Labor’ government condemning the protests, summing up how the so-called ‘progressive’ capitalist politicians view actual resistance to far-right politics. This criticism did not deter the students, nor did Hanson’s asinine comments about the students’ action being funded by China.
On 20 November, students internationally will be walking out, protesting against the symptoms of the capitalist system: war, inequality, bigotry and climate disaster. Socialist Students is building for walkouts in Britain to be as big as possible.
The walkouts in Australia are yet another inspiring example of youth taking action worldwide.
Young people were curious about how they can change the world on our Socialist Students stall outside Capital City College in Hackney.
The principle came out and said: “You aren’t going to get very far with your activism, they don’t care about politics”. This was after two staff members said they supported the youth strike on 20 November.
Many young people took leaflets, asking how they could take action against war and climate change. The issues of unemployment and low pay came up too.
A couple of students asked if we were going to be here next week, so we could discuss further about the youth strike and socialist ideas. One passerby took a leaflet, and said he was going to give it to his daughter.
Young people are ready to fight back. We need to build student unions to discuss these ideas and a socialist alternative in schools, colleges and universities. If you’re interested, join Socialist Students, and alongside 20 other organisations across Europe, start building for the international youth strike on 20 November.
Preston
Penelope Dawber, Preston Socialist Students
Socialist Students has done three campaign stalls at Cardinal Newman College in the last week. We have handed out over 400 leaflets in support of the 20 November international youth strike.
Several students have already scanned the QR code and given us their numbers, so they can get involved. We’ll return soon to help grow the movement amongst college students even more.
Wolverhampton
Josie Shelley, Black Country Socialist Students
Even students who saw themselves as ‘non-political’ agreed with our ideas on fighting for education, jobs, housing, and services – especially on the struggles they will face as young adults.
We had a lot of interest in our campaign stall outside Wolverhampton College. It was the first day of term, so the atmosphere was lively.
We gave out loads of leaflets, and also sold our Socialist paper. All in all a very positive response.
