26 April 2007

Join the campaign to defeat fees

Southampton Socialist Students campaigning

If you're fed up with student fees and debt...: EDUCATION MINISTER Alan Johnson boasts about how Britain's universities are a source of "national pride and international envy"...

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19 April 2007

Build for national action against fees

Cardiff Socialist Students campaign, photo Dave Reid

Join the Campaign to Defeat Fees 27 April day of action: Students live in a world of soaring debt, unaffordable or condemned housing, low-paid jobs with poor quality working conditions, course cuts and department closures...

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4 April 2007

NUS leadership abandon fees fight

YOU WOULD think that National Union of Students (NUS) conference would be a place to implement plans of action on how to fight for the rights that students deserve...

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22 March 2007

Young people get organised

ISR conference 2007, photo Paul Mattsson

ISR/Socialist Students conference: STUDENTS, YOUNG people and young workers gathered in London on 18 March for the Socialist Students and International Socialist Resistance (ISR) annual conference...

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15 March 2007

Build the campaign to defeat fees

LONDON SOCIALIST Students members lobbied the National Union of Students (NUS) headquarters on 9 March to hand over the Campaign to Defeat Fees (CDF) declaration to NUS president Gemma Tumelty and other NEC members....

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8 March 2007

Socialist Party congress report (2)

Recruitment, membership & campaigning: The Socialist Party congress took place on 17-19 February. Following reports of the congress political sessions on world events and Britain in last week's...

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1 March 2007

Protesting across the country

Huddersfield Campaign to defeat fees, photo Ian Slattery

Campaign to Defeat Fees: HUNDREDS OF students in many areas took action as part of the Campaign to Defeat Fees (CDF) day of action on 22 February. This ranged from big protests to petitioning and stunts on the issues of student debt and top-up fees.

The action took place in over 40 colleges and universities, with more to follow this week when colleges come back from half term. Matt Dobson, Socialist Students national co-ordinator has compiled reports from the day of action.

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22 February 2007

Anti-war, anti-nuclear, anti-capitalist? Read the socialist!

After almost four years of war in Iraq, up to 655,000 civilians have been killed...

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22 February 2007

Students can defeat fees

THE LIES go on! Blair maintains that the introduction of top-up fees has been vindicated and that his critics have been proved wrong. As usual his claims are based on dodgy evidence.

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7 December 2006

CDF online petition launched!

Socialist Students has received a fantastic response from the Campaign to Defeat Fees online petition...

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