Tag Archives: Students
Bloomsbury Social Centre evicted
The Bloomsbury Social Centre – a political space occupied largely by students from SOAS and UCL was violently evicted this morning (22/12). The disused University property at 53 Gordon Square was used as a hub of organising for students, workers and residents in the Bloomsbury area. Below is a their initial statement on the eviction:
Defendants need your help
Witness appeal by legal support groups Anarchists, perhaps more than any other political grouping, have always excelled in solidarity and support work. It is because we challenge the authority of government and the legitimacy of the state that we often face the severest hostility and repression from them, and we understand what is required in [...]
Nov 9 Day of Action events
Student march and demonstration Assemble 12 Noon University of London Union ULU Malet Street London WC1E 7HY » MAP » Route of march
Chile’s Student Fury in Full Force
Young lead the way as unrest intensifies in South America Since May this year Chile has been witnessing mass social unrest not seen since the inception of liberal democracy in 1990. Right-wing President Sebastian Pinera’s proposals to make neoliberal ‘reforms’ to the education system has been met with furious student protests ranging from kissing demonstrations [...]
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 [...]
Chilean Student Uprising
On Thursday 16th June tens of thousands of Chilean students took to the streets of the capital Santiago to demand education reforms in what was described as the biggest demonstration since the return of democracy in 1990. Called by Chile’s University Students Federation amongst others, an estimated 70,000 young people across the country participated 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 [...]
