#GE2017 Debate: the case for voting Labour
June 4, 2017 By admin Leave a Comment
This is an opinion piece on the 2017 General Election, written by NCAFC activist and UCL sabbatical officer Mark Crawford. You can read an opinion piece presenting the case for voting Green here. Want to join the debate? Send your opinion pieces to [email protected]! Something rather remarkable has happened over the last two years. […]
#GE2017 Debate: the case for voting Green
June 4, 2017 By admin Leave a Comment
This is an opinion piece on the 2017 General Election, written by the Young Greens Equality and Diversity Officer Georgia Elander. You can read an opinion piece presenting the case for voting Labour here. Want to join the debate? Send your opinion pieces to [email protected]! It has never been more important for young people to […]
NUS NEC report – Ana Oppenheim
May 31, 2017 By Admin Leave a Comment
On May 30th was the last NUS NEC meeting of the academic year. I haven’t been great at writing NEC reports so far, primarily because NEC meetings are rarely interesting. The majority of time is spent on reports and presentations. Accountability is mostly performative, with questions pre-written by officers and sent to friendly council members, […]
Occupation at Chelsea College of Arts: CCW Rethink the Restructure!
May 28, 2017 By Admin Leave a Comment
By Marianne Murray, a student campaigner from University of the Arts London (UAL) On Wednesday 24th May 2017, a meeting of students was held at Chelsea College of Arts to discuss a plan of action to oppose a ‘restructure’ of UAL colleges Camberwell, Chelsea and Wimbledon (CCW). The planned restructure was first brought to our […]
Labour Students targets NCAFC members
May 28, 2017 By Admin Leave a Comment
Alex Stuart, Chair of Surrey Labour Students and NCAFC South-East Co-Rep, writes about the attack on his Labour club by the Labour Students leadership. If you’d like to write an opinion piece for anticuts.com, get in touch. See below for NCAFC’s comment. On Saturday 27th May, Labour Students held a ‘Transitional Conference’ to elect national officers […]
Labour’s manifesto: free education and a National Education Service
May 16, 2017 By Admin Leave a Comment
In this article a NCAFC activist explains why the Labour Party’s Manifesto commitment to free education and a National Education Service is important and badly needed. But a free, democratic and emancipatory education is something we’ll need to fight for to win whatever the outcome of the general election. Got an opinion and want to […]
NCAFC Summer Conference 2017 – democracy deadlines
May 11, 2017 By admin Leave a Comment
At this year’s NCAFC Summer Conference in London there will be democratic sessions where members will discuss, debate and vote on policy put forward by our members, which will set the political and strategic direction of our organisation. Motions can be submitted by activist groups affiliated to NCAFC or alternatively by a group of at […]
Tory “Teaching Excellence” in action: UoM cites TEF as motivation for massive cuts
May 11, 2017 By Admin Leave a Comment
Just days after the passage of the Conservatives’ higher education reforms through Parliament, the University of Manchester has announced plans to axe 140 academic jobs and 31 support roles, placing 926 workers at risk. You can read the UCU trade union’s press announcement about the cuts here. UoM isn’t facing a financial crisis. In 2015-16 […]
Identity politics: the possibilities and limits
May 8, 2017 By admin Leave a Comment
This is an opinion piece written by a NCAFC activist who wishes to be named as Sleepy Commie. If you want to write an opinion piece for the NCAFC website, get in touch with us via [email protected]! I am a queer, disabled woman of colour, and I want the left to talk about identity politics. […]
Positive Visions for Education – End Learning Factories
May 3, 2017 By admin Leave a Comment
This is an opinion piece written by a NCAFC activist who wishes to be named as Flavius McFlavourdale. To contribute to NCAFC’s discussions building a vision for a National Education Service, take a look here and get in touch! Education everywhere, all the time. When it comes to radically changing our education a really significant issue is how […]
Higher education reform bill passes: we’ll fight to repeal it
May 2, 2017 By Admin Leave a Comment
Hard-won concessions have blunted and delayed some parts of the ruinous reforms, but they’re not enough. Now we fight to reverse it and win a democratic National Education Service. Parliament has rushed through the Conservatives’ Higher Education and Research Bill – the legislative vehicle for their ruinous agenda of fee-raising, university-privatising reforms – in advance […]
NCAFC endorses Malia Bouattia for NUS President
April 23, 2017 By Admin Leave a Comment
Last year, we recommended a vote for Malia Bouattia who ran and won against the incumbent Megan Dunn, becoming the first woman of colour to serve as NUS National President. Bouattia ran on an explicitly leftwing platform, promising to campaign for free education and against Prevent, to defend international students and support liberation campaigns. Unlike […]
NUS LGBT+ 2017: When virtue signalling trumps fighting for liberation
April 13, 2017 By Admin Leave a Comment
NCAFC activist and UCL student Ben Towse writes about last month’s NUS LGBT+ Conference. This is an opinion piece – what do you think? If you want to write a response or another article on this or another topic, get in touch via [email protected] NUS LGBT+ conference this year was a surreal experience, and one […]
NUS National Conference Priority Ballot
April 3, 2017 By admin Leave a Comment
NUS national conference 2017 is taking place on 25th to 27th April in Brighton. At the conference, delegates will vote on NUS’s strategy for the coming year. However, only a minority of motions submitted to the conference will be discussed – and it is very important that delegates vote in the priority ballot (which is open NOW […]
NCAFC Candidates at NUS National Conference 2017
March 31, 2017 By admin Leave a Comment
The National Union of Students (NUS) is holding its national conference in Brighton on 25th to 27th April, and there are a number of NCAFC candidates who are running in the elections. These candidacies were endorsed by the National Committee at our meeting in February. As an organisation, we believe these candidates are the best […]
Reimagining Self-Care
March 28, 2017 By Admin Leave a Comment
This article is part of the NCAFC Women & Non-Binary zine being distributed at this week’s NUS Women’s Conference. You can find the whole zine here. By Rida Vaquas One of the key concepts in modern feminism, especially in the student movement, has become “self-care”. The succinctly articulated explanation of self-care as an act of political […]
Anti-Capitalist Feminism: NCAFC Women & Non-Binary Zine
March 28, 2017 By Admin Leave a Comment
Women & non-binary people in NCAFC have produced this zine which they’re giving out free at NUS Women’s Conference this week. Give it a read below! You can access it in PDF and text forms. Update! Stop the presses! We’ve added another article and updated the version below. Download the PDF: Text form – contents: Who […]
The NHS, the cuts & us
March 28, 2017 By Admin Leave a Comment
This article is part of the NCAFC Women & Non-Binary zine being distributed at this week’s NUS Women’s Conference. You can find the whole zine here. By Lina Nass What the Tory government is doing to our NHS can be conveniently summarised by this quote from one of the catchiest protest songs of the last year: […]
The Polish fight for abortion rights
March 28, 2017 By Admin Leave a Comment
This article is part of the NCAFC Women & Non-Binary zine being distributed at this week’s NUS Women’s Conference. You can find the whole zine here. By Ana Oppenheim Poland has one of the most restrictive abortion laws in Europe. Ending a pregnancy is only allowed in cases when it resulted from rape or incest, […]
Thinness is not a rent you pay to exist
March 28, 2017 By Admin Leave a Comment
This article is part of the NCAFC Women & Non-Binary zine being distributed at this week’s NUS Women’s Conference. You can find the whole zine here. By Lauren Kennedy. This article was originally published on the blog I eat your hate like love. Content note: eating disorders. Every Wednesday I have a therapy session at the ED […]