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Anti-cuts focus on Disability & Housing Benefit
After the recent student rebellion against the ConDem attacks on education, the anti-cuts movement is now recognised as a force to be reckoned with. This site has led the way in reports and analysis of this new movement, which I consider to be as significant as 2003′s opposition to the invasion of Iraq. As recently [...]
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Edinburgh Protestors Arrested in Day of Anti-Cuts Action
Thursday saw mass student protests in London and militant action in Glasgow as the Con Dem government passed a law allowing universities to charge £9,000 in tuition fees, part of the continuing impetus of capitalism and its political advocates toward destroying the free provision of education and the universal, collectivist ideas that underpin it. This law and the [...]
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The Winter of Discontent is here and now
This week, the Coalition government will face its first major test as it attempts to rush its proposals for the future of Higher Education funding in England – the tripling tuition fees from their current level – through the House of Commons. Huge pressure is coming to bear on Liberal Democrat MPs – nearly all of [...]
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Aberdeen Cuts Revealed
Jobs are to go, vital services are to be cut, education is on the verge of only being available to those who can pay for it. Yep that’s situation right now in the whole country. Every working class citizen in Scotland is going to feel the impact of the cuts the worst and Aberdeen has announced [...]
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Greek students show solidarity
Over the past two years, the youth, students and workers (and waggy tailed comrades alike) of Greece have been inspirational in their struggle against both the police violence of the Greek state, and its huge austerity drive and IMF bail-outs. We looked on as the mass demonstrations against police brutality, after the shooting of 15 [...]
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Day 3: Evading kettles, Clegg no-show, Bureaucrats cave in
Yesterday saw another national day of action against tuition fees and education cuts, as momentum continues to grow ahead of the parliamentary vote in Westminster on tuition fees, expected within three weeks. Although it didn’t attract as much media attention as the two previous days of student protest (on the 10th & 24th) – in no [...]
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The resistance comes to Scotland: school strikes; uni occupations; thousands on the streets
Today’s massive student protests represented the first nationally co-ordinated days of action against Tory cuts and austerity. Across the country, students walked out of class, went into occupation and took to the streets to show their opposition to the government’s plans to wreck the education system as we know it, through huge cuts to schools [...]
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Tories Out, Students In!
If you’re reading this blog, you’re probably already well aware of Wednesday’s huge demonstration against education cuts that took place in London. Over the past few days a massive amount has already been written about it, both in the mainstream press and all over the internet and social media. It was a brilliant demonstration. Myself and [...]
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Vodafone are dodgy bastards – Part 2!
This weekend people are coming out again to protest against the tax dodging greedy megacorp Vodafone. At 10am at St Enoch’s subway, Glasgow (if there’s going to be anything happening elsewhere in Scotland this weekend, get in touch and let us know!) the people’s debt collectors will be meeting again to try and recover some [...]
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It's official: students in England face £9,000 annual fees
If last month’s Browne Review was the warning shot, today’s announcement that the government intend to treble the cap on fees for higher education in England to an astounding £9,000 a year, is the declaration of war. All universities will be able to charge up to £6,000 a year, double the current rate of £3,290. However, [...]
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