Fight for our futures, not their wars: Walkout 20 November
Many young people growing up today are rightfully recognising that the capitalist system cannot offer us a future. In 2021, polling from the pro-free-market think tank the Institute of Economic Affairs showed that 78% of 16-to-34-year-olds blamed capitalism for Britain’s housing crisis, and 67% said they would prefer to live under a socialist economic system.…
School and college students: Fight for our futures
WALKOUT 20 NOVEMBER Scrolling online, we see the horror taking place in our world. From the onslaught on Gaza to devastating wars in Ukraine and Iran. Climate chaos, pollution in our rivers, fire and extreme heat. As our planet spirals into chaos, companies that sell weapons or pollute our planet make record profits, at the…
Fight for our future, not their wars!
Build international youth walkout on 20 November Socialist Students Socialist Students – which organised walkouts of school, college and university students last September in protest against Donald Trump’s state visit to the UK – is one of twenty European youth and student organisations planning action. The International Youth Strike has been launched by a coalition…
School students can organise for change
Adam Gillman, Socialist Students ‘Has discipline gone too far in schools?’ This is the question raised in the BBC Radio 4 documentary: ‘File on 4 Investigates – Strict schools: Taking discipline too far?’ The documentary has many examples of what students face in secondary school. Launceston College has uniform inspections and silent corridors. One student…
Join the fight for our future – Youth walkout 20 November
Fight for socialist change Becca Bayman, University of Liverpool Socialist Students The consequences of climate change are blasting us in the face. Britain is in its fifth heatwave this year, drought conditions are spreading and temperatures soaring, again. Wildfires are burning – stretching cut-back fire services, and farmers are harvesting smaller yields early. Around 3,000 excess…
We need free education, not militarisation
Manchester and Liverpool Socialist Students 35 universities have become founding members of a new initiative launched alongside the Ministry of Defence, the ‘Defence Universities Alliance’, which aims to use the resources of universities around the country to ‘strengthen research and innovation and build the highly skilled workforce needed to support the UK’s future defence capability.…
FIGHT FOR OUR FUTURE, NOT THEIR WARS.
Governments and elites spend billions on weapons while our education, housing, healthcare and the planet that sustains our lives are left behind. We refuse a future built on war, austerity and destruction. We are rising up to fight back against this system. STRIKE. MOBILISE. ORGANIZE. Students and young people across Europe: strike, walk out of…
Socialist Students at Young Greens convention
Socialist Students member in Young Greens Over the weekend, the Young Greens held their national convention where motions are deliberated and voted on and internal elections are held alongside discussion sessions and knowledge-sharing between activists and groups. Outside the convention, members of Socialist Students held a stall where we had an overwhelmingly positive response from…
School students getting organised
Hackney linking socialism to everyday issues Saad H, Hackney Socialist Students Socialist Students members organised a campaign stall near Stoke Newington School & Sixth Form, speaking to students about the issues affecting them. Large groups of students stopped to ask questions, discuss politics, and find out more. Conversations focused on lack of job opportunities, pressures…
Fight for real jobs and decent pay
Youth walkout 20 November Mila Hughes, West Midlands Socialist Students Young people can’t afford to wait around to see whether a new face in Downing Street changes anything. We have a new Labour prime minister, Andy Burnham, but we still have low pay, insecure work, and an increasing youth unemployment crisis. And his appointment of…
Something went wrong. Please refresh the page and/or try again.
Socialist Students 