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Organise and fight against university cuts – no to redundancies and course closures!
Birmingham Socialist Students member The management of the universities of Wolverhampton, Roehampton and De Montfort have unleashed a savage row of cuts to their programmes and their staff. Wolverhampton has stopped taking applicants for 138 distinct courses, mainly in Arts and Humanities (including its high-ranking fashion course), Roehampton is planning to lay off up to… Read more
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Socialist Students conference – anger is growing, and we’re part of student fightback
Kat Gwyther, Leeds Socialist Students Socialist Students national conference – our first in person since the start of the Covid pandemic – was full of enthusiasm for building a fightback on campuses. Socialist Students national organiser Theo Sharieff opened the meeting. Students face a degraded future. But anger has grown as the pandemic has exacerbated… Read more
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Why I’m going to Socialist Students conference – sign up here!
Sign up to come to Socialist Students’ conference, taking place in Birmingham at 11am on Saturday 26th February, here: socialiststudents.org.uk/sign-up-for-updates-about-socialist-students-2022-conference/ Noah Eden, Sheffield Socialist Students The financial screws are tightening on students. The government is freezing the threshold when students start to repay their loans, as opposed to raising it in line with inflation, meaning… Read more
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Sign up to Socialist Students’ 2022 conference here! Organise to fight for free education on March 2nd
Theo Sharieff, Socialist Students national organiser Students need a fightback! After nearly two years of Covid, the effect of Tory and New Labour marketisation of our university campuses has been laid bare. In September 2020, students were lied to about in person teaching and then locked down on campuses across the country just so university… Read more
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What is socialism?
Adam Powell-Davies, Oxford Socialist Students In recent years, there has been an explosion of the word ‘socialism’ among young people in the UK. Many like myself will have been inspired by the ideas of Jeremy Corbyn – a self-described socialist politician who raised ideas like free education, nationalisation of the railways and public utilities, investment… Read more
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Solidarity with students in Nigeria shot and killed protesting against fees
Socialist Students sends solidarity to students campaigning against fee increases in Nigeria who have been shot at and murdered while protesting. Below is a statement from the Education Rights Campaign, a fighting youth organisation in Nigeria: WE CONDEMN THE SHOOTING/KILLING OF PROTESTING STUDENTS OF KADUNA STATE COLLEGE OF EDUCATION WE DEMAND JUSTICE AND HOLD THE… Read more
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Mass student movement needed to fight against cuts to arts funding
Bea Gardner, Southampton Socialist Students University students and staff across the country have been left outraged at the Office for Students’ proposed cuts to university teaching grants as part of the government’s “reprioritisation” strategy for universities. The proposals include the slashing of funding by 50% for high-cost arts and humanities subjects, including music, performing arts,… Read more
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Socialist Students taking action for free education around the country
Stanley Harris, UAL Socialist Students Since the beginning of the pandemic students across campuses at the University Of The Arts London have been left feeling misled and short changed after handing over their tuition fees and signing onto courses with the assurance that they would be provided with practical and hands on learning that would… Read more
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Socialist Student day of action marks the way for a national student movement for free education
Socialist Students were out in force on Wednesday 21 April across the country campaigning for tuition fee and rent refunds for students and free education. Across 26 different campuses Socialist Students held lively campaign stalls, open air meetings and protests to discuss with students how we can build the campaign on our local campuses, and… Read more
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Students on 26 campuses to protest for tuition fee and rent refunds following the further delay of campus reopening until May
Socialist Students press release – 16/04/21 Students campaigning for free education are organising a national day of action next week, on Wednesday 21st April, calling for tuition fee and rent refunds for students as the first step towards scrapping tuition fees for good. Jake George, a Socialist Students organiser at Nottingham Trent University said: “Students… Read more
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