Tag Archives: Students
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 [...]
UCL Occupation
An insider’s account of one of the London university occupations The University College London (UCL) occupation quickly became more than a local protest. It flowered into something of a national hub of activism, against Higher Education cuts in particular but also against the austerity agenda in general.
Revolting Students
Battle of Millbank ignites the anti-cuts movement There has been a flurry of media hype, discussion and now witch-hunts over the actions of thousands of students on Wednesday 10th November. It strikes me that the most important question to be asking, which is not being asked in the mainstream media, is: ‘if you want to [...]
Picture exclusive: Royals caught in student protest
Heirs to the House of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha, and two of the biggest benefit scroungers in the country meet their subjects. An angry mob of some 300 protestors avoided being kettled and beaten by out-of-control riot police in Parliament Square made their anger felt at MPs voting in favour of raising tuition fees and took [...]
UPDATE: Students in occupation
A list of universties and colleges who occupied on November 24th (some remain in occupation – check the links for updated info): SOAS Manchester Metropolitan University University of West England Royal Holloway University of Birmingham University of Plymouth London South Bank University University of Warwick Essex University Newcastle University Sheffield University Cardiff University University College [...]
Student Occupation: A brief legal guide
This is intended as a useful guide only, as with any occupation there should be at least one person present or available with a working knowledge of the law. Trespass The act of trespass is a civil matter, not a criminal one, so no one should be threatened with arrest for simple trespass. Aggravated trespass [...]
Beating police repression after the student occupation
The information the state doesn’t want you to see, on a site the police don’t want you to read: Fitwatch’s response to the closure of the site by police: http://www.freedompress.org.uk/news/2010/11/16/fitwatch-respond-to-state-repression/ http://www.fitwatch.org.uk/
Light trim, sir?
Born to lead? Aaron Porter, NUS president, New Labour lackey and son of a copper is, if anything, a warning to us all The radical left has always clung mercilessly to the coattails of official forms of power. The anti-war movement could only be legitimised when the likes of Tony Benn (government cabinet minister during [...]
Whitechapel Anarchist Group statement
Solidarity with the Students The Media exposes it’s true role in our society, brandishing the students who took direct action yesterday as mindless vandals and attempting to outcast them as a small minority, establishing a status quo that the bureaucrats of the NUS and the parasitical Left (SWP etc) enforce. As usual a scapegoat is [...]
