The Socialist 31 March 2010

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Stop the cuts, build a socialist alternative

PCS: Striking against government attacks

PCS budget day strike: Support grows across country

BA cabin crew strike: 'We shall not be moved'

Fight the decimation of London tube jobs

Network Rail dispute: RMT signalworker speaks to The Socialist

Workplace news in brief

NUT conference: fight cuts and excessive workload

Socialist elected to NUT executive

Trade Unionist and Socialist Coalition Standing against cuts and privatisation

Yorkshire on the campaign trail

Developing a strategy to defeat the far-right

Waltham Forest: on march against redundancies

Cameron shows Tories still anti-gay

Council cuts: Grim Reaper moving to Surrey

Lewisham councillors' record

News in brief

Terror returns to Moscow For workers' unity against terror, repression, racism and capitalism

Eurozone crisis: Hanging together or hanging separately

Future Jobs scam: attacks on young unemployed

Southampton University protest

May Day march in Hull: Rebuilding traditions of struggle

When We Were Miners

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Southampton University protest

Save sports studies

Students and staff at the University of Southampton staged a protest on 25 March against the planned closure of several courses. The entirety of the Sports Studies department was to be axed, along with several foundation degrees in the School of Education.

Andrew Howe, Southampton Socialist Students

Students involved in the Southampton Students Against Cuts campaign stood alongside university staff in the University and College Union (UCU) and students from the affected courses in protest outside the meeting that was to make the final decision.

In the end the decision was made to go through with the closures. University management insisted that the decision was not financially motivated but was made to "ensure a positive fit with [their] strategic direction" in regards to placing greater emphasis on money-making research than on teaching.

Both the Southampton Students Against Cuts campaign and Southampton Socialist Students have condemned the closures and will continue to campaign against all cuts and closures.

Students and young people do not have to accept the status quo. All three main parties advocate cuts in higher education funding. A socialist alternative is needed that ensures the right of free education for all and that protects the right of study in all subject areas, not just those that are considered the most profitable.

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