The Socialist

The Socialist 12 March 2008

End the occupation

Demonstrate

End the occupation

Gaza - end the bloodshed!

Iraq, Afghanistan: The bitter fruits of war and occupation

School student strikes

US & UK students in anti-war protest


Fight for a living wage!

Coastguards strike

Land Registry votes to reject pay offer

Wales further education pay dispute: Vote 'yes' in strike ballot

Shelter workers' strike success

Prison officers reject pay offer

March for pay justice


Derby nurses fight PFI pay cuts

Hospital trusts... who makes the decisions?

Cuts continue despite financial surpluses


Stroud - Save our post office!

London - Fight the closures


World's poor hit by rocketing food prices


New period of workers' militancy in Germany


Profit motive and the whispering wind

 
 
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US & UK students in anti-war protest

IN PROTEST at the British government's wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, a recent meeting of the University College of London students union passed a motion banning military recruiters from freshers fairs and severing all links with the Officer Training Corps. Similar resolutions were passed by student bodies at Goldsmiths and LSE colleges.

In the USA, last April, over 800 students walked out of schools throughout Seattle to demand an immediate end to the Iraq war. The walkout, organised by Youth Against War and Racism (YAWR), culminated in a protest at a meeting of the school board which called for military recruiters to be kicked out of our schools. YAWR was initiated by members of Socialist Alternative, the Socialist Party's sister organisation in the US.

On 16 November 2007, over 1,000 students in Washington State staged a similar protest. In response to this walkout the authorities threatened students at Foster High School with suspension. But their main targets were teachers, some of whom encouraged or walked out with the students. Disciplinary investigations threatened the firing of six teachers and one of them, Brett Rogers, was placed on administrative leave.

Students, community activists, and Socialist Alternative organised a fightback. Brett Rogers was reinstated, almost all investigations against the remaining teachers were dropped and the disgraced principal of Foster HS was forced to resign.


In this issue

Demonstrate

End the occupation

Gaza - end the bloodshed!

Iraq, Afghanistan: The bitter fruits of war and occupation

School student strikes

US & UK students in anti-war protest


Workplace news and analysis

Fight for a living wage!

Coastguards strike

Land Registry votes to reject pay offer

Wales further education pay dispute: Vote 'yes' in strike ballot

Shelter workers' strike success

Prison officers reject pay offer

March for pay justice


Socialist Party NHS campaign

Derby nurses fight PFI pay cuts

Hospital trusts... who makes the decisions?

Cuts continue despite financial surpluses


Post Office closures

Stroud - Save our post office!

London - Fight the closures


Socialist Party feature

World's poor hit by rocketing food prices


International socialist news

New period of workers' militancy in Germany


Socialist Party review

Profit motive and the whispering wind


 

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Related links:

Anti-war:

triangleSocialism 2010 - a weekend of discussion and debate

triangleUSA: Putting forward a Socialist Alternative in Seattle

triangleArmed forces: Release Lance-Corporal Joe Glenton

triangleChilcot inquiry: Put the warmongers on trial!

triangleAfghanistan: anti-war demo

triangleThe Anti-Flag album 'The People or the Gun'

US:

triangleClegg's text message plans make us LOL!

triangleUS embassy protest remembers Trayvon Martin

triangleMillion Hoodies March against racist murders in the US

triangleThe 'Kony 2012' phenomena

Students:

triangleStrike at Sussex Downs College

triangleDemo against cuts at Salford university

triangleGood result for Socialist Students candidates in NUS elections