Ginny Bayliss, Swansea Socialist Students
With pitiful increases to student loans and youth-targeted exploitative labour practices, the bosses have demonstrated their attitude towards young people. Supporting striking workers on 1 February is an opportunity to fight back, shoulder to shoulder with the rest of the working class, in what will be one of the largest days of industrial action in many young people’s lifetimes.
As the capitalist crisis continues to deepen, our right to protest and strike will become more crucial than ever to fight back. So we need to resist the government’s proposed anti-strike laws and the new Public Order Bill. It is only through the power of the united working class that we can challenge these authoritarian crackdowns.
Today’s students are tomorrow’s workers so, as this strike wave builds momentum, we must be actively involved. That’s why Socialist Students groups have been and will continue to visit picket lines during the strike wave. These disputes have the potential to be a turning point in the fight for our futures.
