France, Germany, Spain – November 20 International Youth Strike steps up
4,000 sign up in Britain Adam Powell-DaviesSocialist Students national chair With six weeks to go, the campaign for the 20 November International Youth Strike has been taken up a notch. In the past week, high school students across France have blockaded schools and rallied against austerity and brutal police repression. In Spain, students and young…
Socialist students freshers campaigning: walk outs, filled rooms and campaigns
York uni: no shops, no reception, no security, no bus – paying more for less Louie Nardini, University of York Socialist Students We kicked off freshers with door knocking at Halifax College. This is an underfunded part of the university. Over years it has been deprived of its Nisa, its local reception, and its bus…
Build the N20 international youth walkout
Buy your Socialism 2026 tickets now! 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…
Socialist students hit the freshers’ fairs
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…
Fight for our futures not their wars
Join international youth walkout 20 November 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…
Fight for socialist change
Socialist Students 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…
End student housing hell – Fight for rent controls!
Robbie Davidson, Manchester Socialist Party 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…
Fight for free education for all
Scrap the failed loan system Daniel Bassey, York Socialist Students 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…
Students: get organised and fight back!
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…
Youth walkout against war on 20 Nov!
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…
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