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Trade Unionist and Socialist Coalition
16 May 2013
University backs down: students and workers win!
Maintenance and support staff at University of Birmingham are celebrating near-total victory as university management has abandoned restructuring plans
24 April 2013
Edmund Schluessel elected to NUS executive
Socialist Students is celebrating an excellent result in the NUS 'Block of 15' elections.
17 April 2013
NUS conference votes against free education and EMA
In 2012, the National Union of Students (NUS) conference mandated the union to call a national demo to launch the fightback against the government's attacks on education, writes Ronnie Smith, Sheffield Socialist Students.
National Youth and student meeting 9-10 February 2013, photo Suzanne Beishon
13 February 2013
Socialist Party 2013 national youth and student meeting
Fighting for our future!: The Socialist Party held its 2013 national youth and students meeting on Saturday 9 and Sunday 10 February, with around 80 people attending from across England and Wales, writes Mary Finch, Waltham Forest Socialist Party.
Students on the NUS national demonstration 12 November against the government attacks on university education, photo Paul Mattsson
28 November 2012
Student demo - potential for mass movement
Anger at NUS failings: Sheffield student union was the first in Britain to organise a campus-wide anti-cuts campaign in response to the call for a national demonstration in November
21 November 2012
Video: Socialist Students on the NUS 'Demo 2012'
Socialist Students joined the NUS demo on 21 November in London, calling for an end to tuition fees, and grants, not loans.
14 November 2012
Student demonstration: Escalate the struggle to fight fees, cuts and privatisation
The government's higher education reforms will "put students at the heart of the system", claimed universities minister David Willetts in 2011. To anyone with half a brain, let alone Willetts' famous 'two', this statement is laughable
14 November 2012
Join the NUS demo on 21 November
Free education, bring back EMA, make the 1% pay!: Up to £9,000 tuition fees, with loan interest charged at 3% above inflation from the day you start. EMA student payments scrapped or facing cuts across the whole of Britain. Soaring youth unemployment...
31 October 2012
Student demonstration must be just the beginning
10 November 2010 saw more than 50,000 students take to the streets in protest. The government's onslaught was just beginning
19 September 2012
Interview with NUS vice-president for union development
Building the fight against fees, cuts and privatisation: In 2010, tens of thousands of students took to the streets against the tripling of tuition fees in England...
UCU members on strike at London Met university in 2009 say No Job Cuts, Save our staff, and Education not for sale , photo Paul Mattsson
5 September 2012
Staff and students unite to fight government's enforced deportations: The UK Border Agency's decision to revoke London Metropolitan's licence to teach international students was cruel and calculated
9 May 2012
Good result for Socialist Students candidates in NUS elections
This year's NUS National Executive Committee elections saw Socialist Students candidates receive high votes
Young people march for a future: Youth Fight for Jobs and Socialist Students on the 29 January 2011 London demonstration against education cuts, photo Senan
2 May 2012
NUS conference Support for left and for action
The National Union of Students (NUS) conference is usually the place to see undemocratic manoeuvring by unelected bureaucrats and New Labour careerists. But this year it was different, writes Ian Pattison, Socialist Students national chair.
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.
28 March 2012
Brighton Uni: Socialist Students five votes from victory
Frequently dominated by populist politics and joke candidates, student union elections are too often the stomping ground of the apolitical and the right-wing bureaucracy that dominate local student unions and large sections of the National Union of Students (NUS), writes Jack Poole, Brighton University Socialist Students.
21 March 2012
Student walkout: Socialist Students show what could have been
The one thing not lacking on our university campuses, in our schools and at our colleges is anger. We've already seen the Con-Dems triple fees and scrap EMA. Now students face courses cut to the bone,...
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.
29 February 2012
Student walkout - build mass action
The National Union of Students (NUS) has called a walkout against cuts and privatisation for 14 March, writes Claire Laker-Mansfield, Socialist Students national organiser.
22 February 2012
Defend education - Join the student walkout
The National Union of Students (NUS) has called on students to walk out of lectures on 14 March as part of a national week of action
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