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From The Socialist newspaper, 15 October 2008
Organising to fight uni tuition fees in Bangor
SUPPORTERS OF the Campaign to Defeat Fees in Bangor university took our fight to build a mass campaign to beat the fees to students around campus. Bangor students union is holding a referendum on whether to carry out a fighting strategy.
Students came to our stalls taking 'vote yes' leaflets and posters for themselves, their friends and to put up around campus. On 13 October, we plastered the campus with posters and gave out 300 leaflets. We collected 70 names of students who pledged to vote 'yes' and sold ten copies of The Socialist.
Given the huge bailout being given to the banks, students have every right to ask who will bail them out from all their debts. They are interested in supporting our campaigning strategy rather than the National Union of Students leadership's 'fiddling whilst Rome burns.'
That evening, we held a public meeting where students discussed the need for a mass campaign to be built. We spoke of the victories students had achieved elsewhere in Britain and internationally. Some supporters of the 'no' campaign attended and were impressed by the fact that we convinced students who were not sure at the meeting to vote 'yes'!
Bangor Socialist Students
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In The Socialist 15 October 2008:
Sack the bankers not the workers
"Give us what the bankers got"
Socialist Party editorial
Government bailouts: major measures to prop up capitalism
Socialist Party Marxist analysis
Recession in Britain: Anger and bitterness towards the financiers
Repossessions grow as banking crisis hits
Socialism 2008
Capitalism in crisis: Why you should come to Socialism 2008
Socialist Party campaigns
Political protest in Liverpool will not be silenced!
Mandelson - New minister for the rich
Planning Bill: Local views sidelined for big business
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Bangor: Organising to fight university tuition fees
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Afghanistan - war without end?
Socialist Party review
75th anniversary of Walter Greenwood's Love on the Dole
Socialist Party workplace news and analysis
London bus workers strike for a living wage
Local government Scotland: Reject the pay offer!
Unison right-wing insecurity begins to show
Successful outcome for Suzanne Muna
Standing for president of Usdaw
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