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Solidarity with Manchester students – Fight for democratic control of campus safety
Theo Sharieff, Socialist Students national organiser Socialist Students sends solidarity to students at the University of Manchester (UoM), who through their protests, have ensured the removal of two metre high security fences designed to pen them in. University management took the outrageous decision to set up fences around the Fallowfields student accommodation, with the only… Read more
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Online Socialist Students and Young Socialists rally says: We won’t pay with our futures
Theo Sharieff, Socialist Students national organiser Over 80 students and young workers attended the Socialist Students and Young Socialists online rally on 25 October. The main theme running through the rally was the abject failure of capitalism to provide young people with a decent future, and why the fight for our future is the fight… Read more
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Solidarity with youth, students and workers in Nigeria fighting against police brutality and the Buhari regime – #EndSWAT
To hear from socialist activists in Nigeria about the struggle against police brutality and for a socialist future, come to this Sunday’s Socialist Students and Young Socialists national rally over Zoom! Register for free over Event Brite here – https://www.eventbrite.com/e/socialist-students-and-young-socialists-national-rally-tickets-119810687993?fbclid=IwAR0YtQbsl63cs7kuaSoCRgbdI6nAz1o9xexlarlxwEJW_mT6jm9BGaJwV34 Socialist Students wishes to send solidarity to the ongoing mass movement in Nigeria against the… Read more
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“It’s not fair” – lockdown students demand free education
Come to Socialist Students’ national zoom rally on Sunday October 25 at 1pm – register for zoom details here: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/socialist-students-and-young-socialists-national-rally-tickets-119810687993?fbclid=IwAR0ag5J4zqt1amyOIngjQ234VKnKAlHJa594j2h_GJXojdBLSP4Vja62mhM Below is an edited letter from Peggy Owens, Cardiff Socialist Students to Welsh first minister Mark Drakeford I am writing to you to express my concern regarding the treatment of students and the prospects they… Read more
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Where next for the Black Lives Matter movement?
Come to Socialist Students’ national zoom rally on Sunday October 25 at 1pm – register for zoom details here: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/socialist-students-and-young-socialists-national-rally-tickets-119810687993?fbclid=IwAR0ag5J4zqt1amyOIngjQ234VKnKAlHJa594j2h_GJXojdBLSP4Vja62mhM Deji Olay, socialist and Black Lives Matter activist This summer the Black Lives Matter movement reignited, following the police murder of George Floyd. Millions of people in the US, UK and across the world took… Read more
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Class of Covid vs capitalism
Socialist Students says: Our campuses are not safe in Tory and VC hands – fight for student and trade union democratic oversight of all measures to stop the spread of the virus Cancel the fees – government investment not student debt End marketisation – for decent free education and living grants for all No cuts… Read more
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Coventry: Socialist Students is back – come to our outside meet-ups
Michael Morgan, Coventry Socialist Students At Coventry University, we talked to students angry about the crisis gripping universities. Coventry Socialist Students put up posters and had a stall on campus. It was received positively by students, who took leaflets, read material, and discussed with us. This summer students experienced the A-level fiasco, Black Lives Matter… Read more
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Fight racism and class inequality, fight capitalism!
London Socialist Students Following the killing on 25 May of unarmed black man George Floyd by Minneapolis police, there has been on outpouring of anger against systemic racism and widening inequalities in the USA. It was only after widespread anger erupted that one of the sacked police officers involved in the killing was charged, sending… Read more
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Solidarity with workers, parents and pupils fighting Johnson’s reckless back to school plan
Socialist Students statement Socialist Students stands in solidarity with school staff unions, workers, parents and pupils who are fighting to halt the government’s reckless drive towards the reopening of schools in England before it is safe to do so. The premature further opening of schools in the absence of wide scale national testing, tracing and… Read more
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Plymouth rent strikes win concessions – but the fight isn’t over
Sioned Freer, Plymouth Student Rent Strike Coordinator A month in, the Plymouth student rent strike now has 750 group members, with over 230 pledged to withhold. The subject of student rent has quickly become a massive national talking point – we have had coverage from international media and TV coverage from the BBC. Famous faces… Read more
