Carnegie Library OCCUPIED
BY KELLY ROGERS Members of the local community in Lambeth borough, South London, have occupied the historic Carnegie Library in a bid to save it from closure. It’s first night saw around 80 people sleep over, ranging from young children to elderly people. In October last year, Lambeth Council announced plans to decommission half of […]
Boycott the 2017 National Student Survey to stop the higher education reforms!
This NUS conference, we are putting forward a motion to boycott or sabotage next year’s National Student Survey (NSS) and the Destination of Leavers from Higher Education Survey (DLHE).These surveys are bad in themselves: they’re used as a weapon to beat academic staff with and as an excuse to restructure departments. Student satisfaction ratings like […]
Falmouth University: Signs, Lies and Pay Rises
This article is written by Falmouth student Tom Stockley Having gained its status in 2009, Falmouth University is the youngest (and most South-Westerly) one in the country. Because of this, issues of expansion, privatisation and funding are occurring at break-neck speed to catch up with the rest of the UK. In 2014, the Contemporary Crafts […]
Students respond to job losses at University of Manchester!
***STATEMENT BY FREE EDUCATION MCR ON JOB LOSSES AT UOM*** Cuts to 43 jobs have been announced at UMC Limited. UMC is a subsidiary which is wholly owned by the University of Manchester, providing all the catering and food on campus. This company is an outsourcing venture used by the University to employ catering staff […]
National mobilisation: victory to the UCL rent strike, decent housing for all!
Join the Facebook event here. This Thursday, UCL Cut the Rent has called a major demonstration in support of a rent strike involving hundreds of students which is demanding a 40% rent cut. UCL halls are some of the most expensive in the country, with many rooms now costing over £200 per week (leaving someone […]
Activism surges across the country!
Yesterday was big day of action in the student left, so here is a summary of some of the amazing work done by activists across the country. Some campaigns included are ongoing, and many of the issues are connected along the lines of extortionate living costs, decolonisation and taking back power from neoliberal management and […]
NCAFC Launches ‘Education in Crisis’ Tour
On Tuesday 1st March NCAFC’s Education in Crisis tour kicked off with a successful public meeting at Bristol University, where activists and other students heard about the HE reforms and skyped the Free Uni of Sheffield occupation. There are upcoming meetings planned at Durham, UAL, Newcastle, Imperial, Queen Mary, and KCL. Over the coming weeks […]
You shall not PAS – Reading students are fighting back against cuts
BY NIALL HAMILTON Today students and staff from University of Reading united in solidarity against job cuts happening across campus. Management at the University of Reading, under the PAS review, is currently targeting over 1,500 crucial but non-academic jobs. This review was introduced to look at the ‘effectiveness and efficiency’ of Professional and Administrative Services. […]
Occupied! Sussex students occupy over deportation of Luqman Onikosi
The occupation has released this statement. Press inquiries to 07850652962 Sussex University Management is complicit in the Home Office’s attempts to deport Luqman Onikosi. For Luqman, this deportation is a death sentence. He is chronically ill, and the medical care he needs to stay alive is not available in Nigeria, where his two brothers have […]
International Women’s Day Call Out – Fight the Cuts to ESOL and Adult Education!
At NCAFC Women and Non-Binary conference in January, we decided to take action against government cuts to English for Speakers of Other Languages (ESOL), and now, a year on from our successful women and non-binary only occupation of the University of London’s Senate House, we are calling on women and non-binary activists to join us […]
Warwick Students Blockade Road for #GrantsNotDebt
A Warwick For Free Education activist reports about last Friday’s protest. On Friday February 26th, around 70 students, activists and staff members from the University of Warwick took to the streets of our campus to protest against the government cuts to maintenance grants. Despite making promises in 2010 that maintenance grants would be kept […]
The Kurdish Women’s Liberation Movement
This article is an opinion piece written by NCAFC member Clémentine Boucher after a Kurdish human rights campaigner led a workshop on Women in the Kurdish Struggle at NCAFC Women and Non-Binary Conference this January. Do you want to respond, or write about another topic for anticuts.com? Please get in touch via [email protected] The Kurdish struggle […]
Bath students and activists protest for #GrantsNotDebt
Sally Williamson, Bath Students against Fees and Cuts, reports about Yesterday’s protest. In response to the government’s decision to slash maintenance grants through a backdoor committee, students and comrades protested up and down the country. The decision was particularly poignant in Bath where the Conservative MP Ben Howlett supported the decision and voted in support […]
Solidarity with student protesters at JNU!
We in the NCAFC send our solidarity to the student protesters and faculty at Jawaharlal Nehru University in Delhi, as well as to the President of the student union, Kanhaiya Kumar, following his arrest for “sedition”. This politically motivated arrest is due to baseless charges and is an attempt by the BJP government, in its […]
The Student Strike – What is going on?
This article is designed as a starting point for further discussion – it’s not a finished position, and it doesn’t presume to speak for everyone. NCAFC is a democratic organisation, and we think that critical self-reflection is an important part of any serious movement. Last summer, NCAFC members started discussing an exciting proposal: a student […]
Left-wing motions for NUS National Conference 2016
On 19-21 April 2016, the National Union of Students (NUS) will be holding its national annual conference. NCAFC activists will be at the conference to argue for a left-wing, campaigning, democratic direction for our national union. As well as standing candidates for leading roles, we will push for left-wing policies, and hold the leadership to […]
Callout: Stop Trident National Demonstration
Trident, Britain’s nuclear weapons programme, is up for renewal this year – opponents of these dangerous and criminally expensive weapons of mass destruction need to mobilise, make the case against nuclear weapons, and take direct action. The Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament has called a ‘Stop Trident national demonstration’ in London on 27th February. NCAFC will […]
#BursaryOrBust: Fighting the Cuts to NHS Bursaries
This article was written by Danielle Tiplady, a final year nursing student at King’s College London. Deciding to become a nurse was a late decision for me. After years of not knowing what to do and thinking very little of myself, I never thought I would be in the position where I could do a […]
Some thoughts on the need for a militant, class struggle feminism
The National Campaign Against Fees and Cuts Women and Non-Binary Conference has been organised to strive towards a revitalisation of militant feminism within the student movement and beyond. In the student sphere, a certain kind of politics focussed on identity and safety still largely dominates feminist discourse and activity. The source of this politics is […]
Are students really workers?
This article is an opinion piece written by NCAFC member Ben Towse. Do you want to respond, or write about another topic for anticuts.com? Please get in touch via [email protected]! It’s become increasingly common on the student left and within NCAFC to say that students are workers. It’s not a new idea but it certainly […]