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Unite for free education! Not war, poverty and racism

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Text from a Socialist Students leaflet

What future do young people have today? The wealth of the richest 1% soars. But all we get are countless wars and climate destruction. The cost of everything is getting higher and higher – from phone bills and food prices to transport fares.

Rent is unaffordable. Wages are too low. Education is under attack. And under Labour, things are only getting worse. In this cruel capitalist world, it’s no wonder so many young people struggle with their mental health. Some students don’t receive mental health support, due to underfunding – services for all young people are inadequate.

This Labour government has shown it is no different to the conservatives. Even before they were in power, Labour backed the Israeli state’s assault on Gaza. Since forming a government, they’ve raised tuition fees for the first time in nearly a decade, refused to end age-based pay discrimination, and announced plans to restrict disability benefits – including raising the age for young people to access Personal Independence Payment from 16 to 18.

Whether it’s enabling war and poverty overseas or attacking the futures of young people in Britain, Starmer’s Labour Party is always on the side of the super-rich elites and their capitalist system. Starmer has rolled out the red carpet for Trump to visit the UK, both of which defend the same capitalist system.

This capitalist system, prioritises short – term profit over the majority of people’s needs at every turn, from education and housing to healthcare, jobs, and the environment, as well as stoking racist and homophobic division.

There is an alternative

The resources exist to provide everyone with a decent standard of living. The top 100 UK companies hand over £80 billion a year to shareholders – money that could instead be used to fund high-quality housing, free education, public transport, and well-paid jobs.

If we took all the major corporations and banks into public ownership, run democratically by working-class people to meet people’s needs and not for profit, then everyone could have a decent well-paid job, a high-quality home, free public transport, and access to free education and healthcare. It would be a socialist society based on collaboration and solidarity between people, laying the basis for ending all war, oppression and where human need and environmental sustainability come first.

We can fight back!

We’ve seen the power of working-class collective action. When workers across the country took strike action in recent years, they forced both bosses and the Conservative government to make concessions on pay, conditions, and funding for our services.

If the trade unions can fight and win under the Conservatives, then they can do the same under Labour. Every young worker should join a trade union, get active and fight for a socialist leadership which could be fighting for a £15-an-hour minimum wage for all – with no exceptions based on age.

Students also have the power to fight back and link up with workers doing the same. Socialist Students members in colleges and schools have recently organised walkouts and campaigns against the war in Gaza, and also fought for the right to meet and discuss socialist ideas. We have seen huge movements initiated by students take place in Serbia, Bangladesh and elsewhere at the forefront of challenging capitalist governments power.

In 2021 students at Pimlico Sixth Form College in London went on strike to protest the racist uniform rules, and against the removing of Black History month from the curriculum. When we fight, we can win change.

But we need political representation for our movements. Labour won’t represent us. Neither will the Tories, Reform, or the other pro-capitalist parties. They represent the interests of capitalism whilst expecting young people to quietly accept a system that fails us.

We say: enough. It’s time to build a new political force – a mass working-class party with socialist policies that gives a voice to our struggles and a vision for a socialist future.

We say:

  • For fully funded, free education – introduce living grants for all students, scrap tuition fees and cancel student debt, and stop cuts to courses
  • Divestment from arms and big business – no place for profiteers from war and exploitation in our education
  • Mass trade union struggle for a £15-an hour minimum wage now! Ban unequal youth pay rates and scrap zero-hour contracts
  • End the housing crisis! For a mass building programme of high-quality, affordable council housing
  • Take the wealth off the super-rich! For the banks, monopolies and major industries to be owned and run by the working class to meet everyone’s needs, not the profits of a few
  • Build the socialist opposition to Labour, the Conservatives, Reform and all the establishment parties! Build a new mass workers’ party with socialist policies to give working class and young people a political voice!

Our education system has been decimated by years of cuts – first under the Tories, now under Labour. Class sizes have grown. Teachers are overworked. Mental health support is practically non-existent. Buildings are falling apart. And now, Labour is planning to raise tuition fees even further – while diverting funding toward STEM subjects and away from vocational and humanities courses.

Socialist Students is organising lobbies of our local MPs, to see where they stand on education funding – and what they plan to do to represent us against this Labour government. Will they join our movement for free, fully funded education – to demand that big business foots the bill for education, not students and workers? Or will they stay silent as this government destroys our lives and futures?

Find out more about the Funding Not Fees campaign

Socialist Students win free societies & more democracy at Herts uni

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Herts Uni Socialist Students featuring Morgan (middle)

Morgan Tritton, Hertfordshire Socialist Students

We started Herts Socialist Students in November 2024 and were frustrated by the inaction of the students’ union (SU) on our campus. At the University of Hertfordshire the SU has repeatedly defended the university’s actions over the interests of its own members – students ourselves. There is no real separation between the university and the SU which often echoes university management.

We investigated the SU’s governance, transparency, and action plan. We found little evidence of advocacy on urgent issues such as the cost-of-living crisis, tuition fee hikes, accommodation conditions, violence against women, and campus safety. What we did find, however, was stagnation – a culture that prioritises protecting the image of the university over fighting for the needs of the student body.

We raised our concerns at the November 2024 student council meeting. It took four months, and the submission of a formal motion, before any action was taken!

In April 2025, we submitted three motions: to improve SU governance and transparency, to allow free society memberships and open meetings, and to demand action on violence against women on campus. Prior to this, there had only been one motion passed in the last two years. We faced attempts to resist, delay, water down, or dismiss the motions entirely from SU staff. They downplayed safety concerns by citing a lack of official reports and claimed transparency had now been addressed and further student oversight was unnecessary.

We responded in full, challenged their narrative, and two days before the council meeting, the SU backed down. All three motions were debated and passed overwhelmingly. We came in force to a student council meeting to highlight inaction and received a positive response from students.

This fight is far from over. We are in contact with the SU President and Women’s Officer and will be meeting in the coming weeks. Our passed governance motion requires monthly officer updates, motion tracking, and scheduled council meetings, basic measures that should have existed already, and we will make sure these happen.

We are fighting to repoliticise and democratise our SU. We are organising not just for better policies, but for a shift in power on campus from unelected managers and bureaucrats to the hands of students ourselves, alongside representatives of staff unions. We must continue to scrutinise our SUs and question: who benefits from keeping students in the dark? Who benefits from an unorganised student body? University managements and the relationships they have with pro-capitalist politicians and big business.

The failures of Herts SU reflect a nationwide crisis across higher education, faced with a funding crisis universities constantly put their finances above the interests of students and staff.

As part of the Funding Not Fees campaign, we must confront every institution on campuses that facilitate poor student and staff conditions and rising costs for students. Compromised and undemocratic student unions, acting as extensions of university management, must be challenged as part of a broader fight for free, fully funded education, and fighting democratic student organisations must be built.

School cuts impact those that need the most support

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Protester on a demonstration against education cuts

Wren, North London

Due to the massive cuts to education by past Tory and now-Labour governments, many schools cannot afford to support every student that needs it.

This includes at my secondary school, where the number of both support and teaching staff has been cut drastically. In Year 7, I had a Learning Support Assistant (LSA), who helped with making sure I understood the content of the lesson, dealing with panic attacks and much more. However, in Year 8, she was fired and since then more LSAs have also lost their jobs.

There are now only around two LSAs per year group. This has put a massive strain on the school and has led to certain students being left behind because they are ‘high functioning’ and therefore do not ‘need’ support. Teachers either ignore those students because they do not speak in lessons, or they are deemed insolent and given detentions for asking a classmate a question that they would have asked their LSA if they had been there.

Staff shortages

Another example of how Labour’s cuts have impacted schools can be seen in how many classes are not even taught by the class teacher. Many of my classes are taught by a supply teacher, not because my teacher is not in, but because there are simply not enough teachers to teach every class. The English department in my school, along with many others, is horribly underfunded and understaffed with over half my lessons being taught by a substitute because the GCSE and A-level students have to have a teacher. This leads to many students being unable to learn the content that they will be using in their GCSEs because they are not taught by a subject specialist, or the supply teacher is sent the incorrect lesson content.

On top of that, students are overwhelmed with homework. GCSE students in my school sometimes take three different practice papers home from almost every class that are due in the next day or two to “fill in gaps in learning”.

Students overworked, taught incorrect content, and left behind because of staff shortages, because of Labour’s cuts to education. Students pay the price of these cuts, finding it harder to get jobs and suffering stress and depression as a result.

Socialist Students fights for:

  • A fully funded education system from schools to colleges and universities. Take the wealth off the super-rich. Pay teachers and school staff wages they can live on
  • End all academisation and kick private profit out of our education system
  • Democratic control of education by representatives of staff unions, student organisations and the community

Letter to NUS: Building a united movement for fully funded, free education

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The following is the text from a letter sent from the Socialist Students steering committee to Alex Stanley, Vice President Higher Education for the National Union of Students (NUS), on Wednesday 9th April.

Dear Alex Stanley,

As you will know, there is a major funding crisis in higher education which is hitting students, staff, and local communities. Over 5000 redundancies have been planned by the vice-chancellors this academic year, with up to 5000 more to come according to the University and College Union (UCU). Students continue to suffer from a devastating gap between our living costs and maintenance support, and our futures are stalked by uncertainty in a volatile world of increasing war, climate crisis and poverty.  

In response to the funding crisis in post-16 education,  UCU has launched the ‘Stop the Cuts’ campaign, which includes a national demonstration in London on Saturday 10th May. Socialist Students will be rallying as many students as we can to the UCU demonstration, because we think this event – organised by the largest trade union in higher education, as part of a national campaign against the crisis of marketisation – can be a vital staging point for building a united student and worker movement for fully funded, free education. But that is also why we believe NUS must do everything it can to seriously build for this demonstration.

We call for:

  1. NUS to encourage all students’ unions to arrange free or low-cost transport to Central London on Saturday 10th May, including financially supporting students’ unions to do so if necessary
  2. NUS to issue the call to all students’ unions to actively promote the UCU demonstration among its members – including: emailing details of the demonstration to students; organising leafleting sessions; and postering across campus
  3. NUS to produce a public statement in solidarity with the UCU ‘Stop the Cuts’ campaign
  4. NUS to hold a national online meeting, open to all who wish to attend, on the topic of, ‘How students can unite with staff for fully funded, free education’

We recognise that NUS has begun campaigning around funding for education, and welcome the ‘A Fair Deal for Our Future’ campaign, which includes the demand for better maintenance support. However, we believe student leadership has to go much further in raising what is needed for a genuinely fair and free education system for all. Socialist Students has launched the Funding Not Fees campaign this year, raising the following set of demands:

  • No to Labour’s tuition fee hike – scrap fees and cancel student debt
  • Living grants, not loans
  • Stop all cuts and closures on campus. End low pay and casualisation of staff
  • Divestment from arms and big business – no place for profiteers from war and exploitation on our campus

We would appreciate the opportunity to discuss further what ideas and strategy are needed to mobilise students alongside staff in a movement for free, fully funded education. To this end, please could we arrange a meeting at the earliest possible convenience between NUS representatives and members of the Socialist Students steering committee?

In solidarity,
Socialist Students steering committee

Liverpool Guild election: fighting fees, cuts, and cost of living

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Hannah Ponting, Socialist Students candidate in Liverpool student election

Student union elections provide a great platform to voice socialist ideas on campuses. At Liverpool university, we collaboratively created a manifesto focusing on socialist policies, and subsequently selected a candidate who could put forward these policies, and represent socialist ideas in this election. I am very proud to have been that candidate.

The first of our main policies was fighting against Labour’s recent tuition fee hike, and for free education. The increasing cost of university should not be a barrier to young working-class people pursuing higher education. We based this policy around the Funding Not Fees campaign, launched by Socialist Students nationally.

The increasing cost of living is a significant concern to students. Funding life at university is becoming increasingly difficult. We focused on fighting to expand bursaries and reinstate the university’s food pantry, which was previously scrapped.

The university’s night bus is another service which was previously scrapped, although was reinstated due to campaigns led by Socialist Students. We said, expand the night bus to more areas in and around Liverpool, and to increase its frequency to every half an hour.

There has been a recent crisis of violence towards women and girls on campus. We believe that it is necessary to fight for all students to have a genuinely safe, reliable, and affordable way home.

Fight job cuts

Cuts are occurring at universities around the country. Liverpool uni refused to be transparent with the University and College Union (UCU), when pressured about its own job cuts.

We said the university must open its books and have financial transparency. This also extends to fighting for divestment from arms companies.

We held campaign stalls, and other leafleting and postering. We got a brilliant response from both students and workers on campus, with discussions about the cost of living and cuts to disability benefits.

We also held a public meeting. It provided a brilliant chance to explain our policies, and allow for any questions to be asked.

I spoke at endorsement meetings of other societies, such as Labour Students, to advocate socialist ideas to more students.

We achieved 151 first preference votes, rising to 192 when transferable votes were added. 9th place out of 24 candidates. The top four were elected.

There is an appetite for socialist ideas on campus. It’s our job to direct the frustration that young people are increasingly feeling – with the capitalist system and Labour government –into an organised movement.

Leeds students say: ‘Don’t raise our fees, or cut our courses’

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Farone Kahuya, Leeds Socialist Students

Leeds Socialist Students organised a protest for the Funding Not Fees campaign against Labour’s plan to raise tuition fees to over £9,535.

We are targeting criticism to the University of Leeds vice chancellor too. Her wages increase alongside our tuition fees. But she has the power to choose not to comply with Labour’s fee hike.

We are adding pressure to the university bosses to respond, with campaign activity around the universities and sixth form colleges in Leeds – leading up to the protest in front of the Parkinson Steps.

We had fantastic speeches from Socialist Students. Capitalist profit makes student life harder and more unsustainable each year. One speaker reminisced about when university was free.

Another related this movement to powerful student movements in the past that we can take inspiration from, such as the 2010 protests against the Conservative-Lib Dem coalition trebling tuition fees to £9,000.

This demo was backed by various student groups. Many, who could not make it, gave a speech to be read on their behalf. For example, Eden – Leeds student union wellbeing officer – expressed her grievances of having to go through a personal loss that prevented her from continuing higher education, yet still had to pay a hefty portion of the tuition fee, despite attending only one class.

Despite our small numbers, we were heard by many. We handed out many flyers, and our speakers were heard throughout the street.

As long as the accessibility and quality of higher education is threatened by capitalist greed, we will continue to fight for funding over fees, aiming to inspire more young people to push back against these changes.

UCU launches ‘stop the cuts’ campaign

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Joint campus union rally in Leeds, 2022

Adam Powell-Davies, Socialist Students national organiser

The University and College Union (UCU) held a parliamentary lobby and rally to launch its ‘Stop the cuts: fund higher education now’ campaign on 18 March.

Shocking redundancies

This was the first national campaign initiative in the ‘stop the cuts’ campaign, less than a week after the shocking announcement of 632 planned redundancies at Dundee University. UCU estimates that up to 10,000 jobs could be cut this year alone – 5% of staff.

The event was attended by UCU branches from across the country, with rally speakers from as far afield as Lancaster and Bangor, reflecting the enthusiasm for a trade union response to the cuts devastating higher education.

The rally showed that there’s a discussion taking place within the union over the best way forward in this fight, with a range of different opinions expressed. Several speakers called for coordinated, nationwide strike action, linked to the battle over staff pay and conditions.

I spoke to bring solidarity from Socialist Students to the rally, highlighting the need for students to link up with campus trade unions in the fight for full public funding for education, paid for by taking the wealth off the rich – not more fees, cuts and cost-of-living crisis.

Joining UCU activists was suspended Labour MP John McDonnell. He spoke of the need for “a parliamentary voice” to the struggles of university staff, saying the lobby was an opportunity to “recruit MPs as allies of the UCU”.

Funding Not Fees

Socialist Students groups are organising lobbies of local MPs, under the banner ‘Funding Not Fees’. This brings together students and staff, as well as trade unionists, anti-war activists, community campaigners, and more in the fight for political representatives who will give a voice to all the struggles of working-class and young people, under this pro-big business Keir Starmer government.

While Socialist Students continues to build Funding Not Fees on campuses, we hope to link up with the UCU ‘stop the cuts’ campaign – including mobilising the maximum student turnout to the UCU’s national demonstration in London on Saturday 10 May.

Coventry’s fight for free education

Frank Hammond, Coventry Socialist Students

United against attempts to break down our educational infrastructure, workers at Coventry University protested on 15 March. Perfectly planned to clash with the uni’s open day, they were supported by students, other trade unionists, and attendees of the Socialist Party’s national congress taking place in the same city.

John Latham, vice-chancellor and CEO of Coventry uni, has proposed job cuts of over 90 staff and plans to remove 200 others from the pension scheme (see ‘Students: Build the resistance to uni cuts!’.

And what a turnout for the protest. Over a hundred slowly passing by, holding signs; trade unionists, workers and students pumping their fists, clutching their wooden sticks from placards we all built to tell the bosses we aren’t accepting these attacks lying down.

Our placards held our campaign slogan: “Funding not fees! No redundancies!” The Funding Not Fees campaign aims to build a resistance to the many attacks on uni students and workers – the university bosses’ motives being a symptom of the failing system.

Speaking at the protest, former Labour MP Dave Nellist said the ‘fire-and-rehire’ scheme was being used as psychological blackmail against the staff. 66% of UK universities face deficit budgets this year.  If Coventry University succeeded, many other universities would use the same tactics, he said. Clause 22 of the Employment Rights Bill declares ‘fire and rehire’ to be grounds for automatic unfair dismissal. But, with a 174-seat majority in the Commons, Labour, if they wanted to, could have immediately declared the practice illegal last July to protect workers from these attacks. But they didn’t.

Students and workers

My much-loved lecturer and vice chair of Coventry’s University and College Union (UCU) branch Monika Koehler-Ridley was interviewed by BBC news. I was delighted that she has attended a Socialist Party branch meeting to talk about the campaign. Students and workers have a common enemy. We’ll fight for free education, fight to end privatisation, fight for a society where we feel secure in our futures and do our part in pursuing the liberation of the working class.

Breaking news at Cardiff uni

A massive 83% of University and College Union (UCU) members have voted to strike. This is in response to 400 planned job losses.

86% voted for action short of strike, up to and including an assessment boycott. 64% voted in the ballot.

CAMPAIGN: Don’t rent from slum landlord City Rooms!

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● Release Declan Miller from the abusive contract!

● Fight back against capitalist housing crisis!

Text from a Queen Mary Socialist Students campaign leaflet

City Rooms have demanded that Declan pay until the end of his contract despite the unlivable conditions at the property. Queen Mary student Declan has had no choice but to work part time to cover extortionate rents and is now being forced to pay for a room he cannot safely live in.

Yet, with a last reported turnover of £16 million and over £1 million in reserves, a rate of profit of around 50% higher than the average London landlord, annual payments to its two owners of £1m in dividends and the director’s salary, City Rooms are more than able to release Declan from this deplorable situation. But choose not to. Instead, they have decided to profit from a young tenant who they have knowingly put and kept in a violent and discriminatory letting, lining their pockets with no regard for the consequences.

A Queen Mary university student has been battling for months with a verbally and physically abusive flatmate, with no safe refuge! We demand that City Rooms, the property management, release Declan Miller from his contract immediately. City rooms, aware of the abusive thug’s behaviour, did not disclose this information upon signing the student into an exploitative contract leaving him unable to access alternative safe accommodation.

These kinds of situations are becoming more frequent than ever. In a borough like Tower Hamlets, with over 20,000 people on the waiting list for council housing, many are forced to resort to dishonest renting contracts with landlords and renting companies taking advantage of people in desperate housing situations. This is why we need fully implemented licensing and inspection of landlords to enforce decent housing standards. There is clearly more that can be done by Tower Hamlets Council to strengthen their licensing scheme which could start by making licensing compulsory for all landlords and bringing in rent controls.

Unaffordable rents, sky-high house prices and a rising cost of living – it’s no wonder that young people experience the worst of the housing crisis, on top of enormous tuition fees that are being increased as of September 2025. The Higher Education Policy Institute (HEPI) reported in December 2024 that the maximum student loan is now less than the average student rent. The maintenance loans that saddle us with lifelong debt, have left students to fend for themselves in London’s private housing market or are forced to choose cramped and often poor quality halls. This is why we call for the end of the marketisation of our education, and for universities to be free and fully funded to provide safe, accessible housing for all students.

Many councils have declared bankruptcy with 63 more set to do so in the next year due to, now Labour-led, austerity where public services have been cut to the bone, like the recent £5 bn cut from the welfare bill. Starmer’s Labour party has made it clear they do not represent the interests of the working class and young people, cutting the winter fuel payment for pensioners, lifting the cap on tuition fees, and the continued support of the Israeli state’s onslaught on Gaza, many are looking for an alternative to the broken system.

The mass building of council homes, democratic control over housing management and regulations will not happen under Labour, it is clear and necessary that workers and young people must fight for a new mass workers party for an anti-war, anti-austerity programme to provide the services we desperately need. This includes democratic rent caps, a mass housing programme; over 7000,000 homes in the UK are standing empty! If workers and students took this resource into democratic control, it could be one step in the right direction towards fixing the housing crisis and the exploitative tactics of landlords and renting companies who act with impunity.

Fighting back can get results as proven by the case of Lawanya in 2021, a penniless asylum seeker and refugee campaign organiser. City Rooms, with their history of exploiting vulnerable renters, had bullied and forced Lawanya out of their property with no consideration for her situation at the time, whilst still demanding that she pay the rent on the full contract all due to there not being a ‘break clause’ in her contract. Despite this, campaign action and protests led by the Socialist Party backed by the London Renters Union and trade unions like Unite, bought City Rooms to bitterly admit defeat, agreeing to a reduction in the total amount and an affordable repayment rate. This offer was only reached through the resilience and strength of fighting together against the super rich bosses who had even threatened Lawanya’s asylum status!

Now they are back again to threaten and bully another vulnerable person into staying in their property despite it being an unsafe living space. From eviction to unjust debts to unsafe living conditions, challenging the predatory behaviour of companies like City Rooms is vital. Rights for the working class and young people are not granted by the rich, but won through struggle.

Fight for mass council home building and democratic rent control!

  • Implement licensing and inspection of landlords to enforce decent housing standards
  • Full public funding for universities to provide safe housing and make education free
  • Make the rich landlords and bosses pay, fight for socialist policies
  • Workers and young people need our own, new, mass party to fight for our interests

Solidarity with students fighting Erdogan’s regime

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Protest in Manchester, March 24th 2025

Socialist Students sends solidarity to the mass protests in Turkey fighting back against the regime of Recep Tayyip Erdogan.

Despite an official ban on demonstrations and other restrictions, university students and young people have been organising for many days on campuses and on the streets, heroically battling against police brutality. Students in a number of areas have launched boycotts of their universities.

The protests were set alight by the arrest of the mayor of Istanbul, Ekrem Imamoglu, on alleged corruption charges, just as he was set to be announced as the presidential candidate for the main capitalist CHP opposition party. This follows a series of arrests of hundreds of trade unionists, socialists, journalists and other activists, as Erdogan tries in desperation to clamp down on any opposition to his increasingly unpopular government. His government has implemented a new round of brutal cuts to public spending, and overseen relentless attacks on democratic rights.

As students in Britain, we stand in solidarity with the struggles of young people in Turkey for an end to state repression and worsening living standards. The university and school students at the heart of the mass protests in Turkey say that see no future for themselves the way things are today. The outlook in Britain is no different, where Keir Starmer’s Labour government is overseeing devastating cuts to education, while allowing an ever-growing gap between young workers’ wages and the cost of a decent life. Around the world, all young people see is a capitalist system in crisis – war, oppression, poverty, climate catastrophe and misery for the vast majority of people.

Socialist Students fights for a socialist alternative to capitalism, as the only way to give all young people a decent future free of poverty and oppression. This means students uniting with the working class in a mass movement that is armed with a socialist programme to transform society – fighting to take the banks and major companies that dominate the economy under the democratic control and management of working-class people, so that society can be planned to meet the needs of all people.

Let’s organise to kick out Erdogan, Starmer and all the capitalist politicians along with their sick system!

  • Solidarity with protestors fighting Erdogan’s regime in Turkey
  • End the attacks on democratic rights 
  • Fight the cost-of-living crisis and kick out Erdogan
  • Fight for a socialist alternative to Erdogan, Starmer, Trump and all the capitalist politicians

Socialist Students statement on Labour disability cuts

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The Labour work and pensions secretary, Liz Kendall, has announced cuts to a range of disability benefits – including £5bn of ‘savings’ through a tightening of Personal Independence Payment (PIP), which would see only the most “severely disabled” keep their payments. Under Labour’s plans the health component of Universal Credit would be reduced and they would cut incapacity top up payments for under 22’s.

Among the cuts to the winter fuel allowance, the rise in tuition fees, and more – this is another vicious attack on the working class and young people. This latest attack will push ill and disabled people into poverty. Starmer’s New Labour government has done nothing for workers and students – so far, it has only shown whose side they are on: the capitalist class.

Socialist Students will organise opposition to the Labour government on campuses across the country – as we are doing now, for example, by organising the ‘Funding Not Fees’ campaign against fees and cuts on 35+ campuses across the UK. If you agree with us and want to join the opposition to Starmer’s Labour and capitalism, get involved with Socialist Students – link in our bio.