Tag Archives: Education
Student occupation of Royal Conservatoire of Scotland
After the successful occupation of the George Square Lecture Theatre at the University of Edinburgh [see the new monthly issue of Freedom newspaper for full story] in protest at Scottish universities charging £9,000 in tuition fees, students occupied the prestigious Royal Conservatoire of Scotland (RCS) in Glasgow on Friday 23rd September. The action came after [...]
N9 National Education Demo
Planning Meeting for N9 National Demo and Walkout A call-out for anarchists/anti-authoritarians in London to meet to decide how we can organize ourselves in a united, collective and political way for Nov 9 national demonstration and walkout against education cuts and the build up to the day. Thurs 22th September 7pm The Cock Tavern 23 [...]
June 30th: An anarchist teacher’s perspective
As an anarchist, I was not initially impressed by the idea of a one day strike. It didn’t sound very militant- going out on strike at the end of term after the exams were over when the students were about to finish in any case; there wasn’t going to be much impact. However, having now [...]
Millbank, Protests, Occupations, Solidarity, Strikes
Interview with an Education Activist Network radical on the student movement Mark Bergfeld is an education activist who has played a vital part in mobilizing – and being a part of – the student movement in London, which took every political radical by surprise last November, and ignited the anti-cuts movement here in general. In [...]
Education backlash
Repression of the student movement On May 10th the ongoing student occupation at London Metropolitan University was forcefully evicted just before midnight as a small group of occupying students prepared to bed down for the night. It was a violent operation instigated by the university against its own students as bailiffs forced their way into [...]
National Assembly for Education
Report on the first national student assembly If the National Assembly for Education, organised by the Education Activist Network, at London School of Economics, on 30th January is anything to go by then the escalation of the ‘movement’ that everybody is hoping for might still be a way off. There was only about a hundred [...]
News in brief
A quick look around the news of the day Business Oil giants Shell have confirmed they make £1.6m profit every hour. The multi-national fuel producers have just published their latest financial figures revealing that global profits rocketed to $5.7bn (£3.5bn) in the last three months of 2010 compared with $1.2bn a year ago. Full year [...]
National student demo :: Sat Jan 29th
No Fees, No Cuts! Defend Education & the Public Sector! Saturday January 29th 2011 Two mass demonstrations against tuition fees and public sector cuts London: Meet up: 12 Noon ULU (University of London Union) Malet Street London WC1E 7HY Map Manchester: Assemble: 10.30am, University of Manchester (University Place), Oxford Road, M13 9PL March: 11am to [...]
Student demonstrations: legal advice
Were you arrested at any of the recent Student demonstrations? Were you either charged with an offence or bailed by the police to return to a police station soon? We know it’s a worrying time and information can be difficult to come by. We also know from previous experience that it can be isolating and [...]
London Met Occupation Interview
Freedom talks to occupying students about the education cuts Can you introduce yourself? We are the occupiers! Our statement introduces us as “an autonomous, democratic, united group of students” – I think that pretty much covers it. We don’t really have a group identity, and we’re not affiliated to any group or party – just [...]
