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Trade Unionist and Socialist Coalition
18 April 2012
NUS needs a fighting leadership
Members of the National Union of Students (NUS), the only UK-wide collective organisation students have, must decide at NUS national conference this week whether NUS will take serious measures in the fight against attacks on our education or vanish into bureaucratic irrelevance, writes Edmund Schluessel.
7 March 2012
No Cuts, No Fees, Bring Back EMA
Walkout 14 March: Students arriving at university in September will be the first to pay the new £9,000 tuition fees and by that time, EMA student payments could be a thing of the past. What can students do to change things?
7 March 2012
NUS elections - Vote Socialist Students for a fighting student leadership
It's election time for Britain's student unions and once again thousands will be asked to vote 'Joe Bama for president (yes we can!)' or 'Ben Johnson for education - BJ for satisfaction', writes Claire Laker-Mansfield, Socialist Students national organiser.
Dave Nellist, Socialist Party councillor. addresses Socialism 2011, photo Senan
15 February 2012
Socialist councillor leads fight to restore EMA
Coventry Socialist Party councillor Dave Nellist is campaigning against education cuts and tuition fees
November 24th student demonstrations against tuition fees rises and the abolition of the EMA, photo Senan
8 February 2012
Students drop out of college without EMA
In late 2010, as thousands of college students took to the streets against the vicious scrapping of weekly EMA payments for 16-19 year old students, the government insultingly labelled the grant as 'frivolous', writes Claire Laker-Mansfield, Socialist Students national organiser.
The Jarrow March for Jobs 2011 ends with a demonstration in London on 5 November , photo Sujeeth
11 January 2012
Reject slave labour for young unemployed
"Thanks but no thanks": In October, Youth Fight for Jobs (YFJ) activists, marched over 300 miles from Jarrow to London to hand a petition into Downing Street demanding job creation instead of workfare, bringing back EMA student payments, scrapping tuition fees, saving youth services and building affordable housing...
Youth Fight for Jobs Jarrow March 2011 launch demonstration in Jarrow, photo Paul Mattsson
30 November 2011
Preparing the ground for a mass movement of young people: On 1 October a group of young people from every corner of the country - mostly strangers to each other - gathered in Jarrow, just south east of Newcastle, writes Sean Figg, Jarrow marcher.
9 November 2011
We won't pay £9K! - Scrap tuition fees
Last month it was revealed that as the Ucas university application service opened for 2012, applications were down by 9% on last year...
2 November 2011
As the Jarrow March for Jobs arrives in London... Youth demand their future!
On Saturday 5 November join the final leg of the Jarrow march! 12 noon at Temple tube on the Embankment to march to a rally in Trafalgar Square
28 September 2011
The college I attended had a well thought out policy: 'In order to save as much money as possible, we will supply the bare minimum in textbooks, paper, pens, computers and transport', writes Jack Walker, Hull.
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