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Trade Unionist and Socialist Coalition
8 February 2012
Leeds Trinity students fight canteen cuts
Leeds Trinity University College canteen services have been stopped on Saturdays and Sundays for the foreseeable future. Staff have been made redundant and others have had their hours cut, writes Samantha Garratt, Leeds Trinity Union general secretary.
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.
Student protest 29 Jan
1 February 2012
NUS: name the day for student walkout
This week there has been another set of statistics showing that £50,000 worth of debt is enough to make many people rethink plans to go to university
25 January 2012
Vine in Leeds provides specialist education provision for young adults with severe and complex learning difficulties, a Unison steward writes.
25 January 2012
NUS calls national student walkout
The National Union of Students (NUS) has finally announced a series of actions to fight against the sweeping privatisation and cuts threatened to hit our universities if the government get their way...
18 January 2012
Bonus restraint? Fat chance!: I have just seen with disgust that Bob Diamond, the boss of Barclays Bank, is in line for a £10 million bonus (on top of his £1.3 million a year salary) for his efforts in the financial world this year, writes Lin Black, Swansea.
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.
Jarrow March for Jobs
23 November 2011
Millions unemployed - workers and students must unite and fight!
Unemployment is now 2.62 million in the UK, and youth unemployment stands at 1.2 million - the highest number since records began, writes Alex Moore, Jarrow marcher.
18 November 2011
Support Egyptian students' struggle at the German University in Cairo
The CWI website socialistworld.net has reported this week on a students' struggle for an independent, democratic students' union at the German University in Cairo (GUC)...
Photo Paul Mattsson
16 November 2011
Defend the right to strike and protest
Build for 30th November strike: Twenty eight unions are now expected to join the strike against cuts to public sector pensions, showing the massive potential power of the working class
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