Reaching its second day on Friday, the wildcat strike and picket at the School of Oriental and African Studies was successful in putting further pressure on management to lift the suspension of union representative Sandy Nicoll.
The suspension comes in… Continue reading
Jon Bigger, resident contributor at Freedom News, brings us his account of yesterday student demonstration in central London. Marred by vicious police violence and abandoned by the ever principled National Union of Students, the march went ahead and voiced its… Continue reading
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… Continue reading
Assemble 12 Noon University of London Union ULU Malet Street London WC1E 7HY » MAP » Route of march
The route will take the march from its starting point on Malet Street, through Trafalgar Square and… Continue reading
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’… Continue reading
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… Continue reading
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… Continue reading
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… Continue reading
Could the occupation of London Metropolitan signal the rise of a working-class student’s movement?
In Cameron’s adventurous second term, the privatisation of culture has continued on a dramatic scale. Everywhere cultural avenues for poor people are severed. Public museums, art galleries and libraries, particularly those in predominantly working-class Labour boroughs, have had their funding… Continue reading →