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From The Socialist newspaper, 4 November 2020
Maybe now they will listen - Refund the fees!
Socialist Students campaigning in Birmingam (Click to enlarge)
Birmingham Socialist Students
Another great Socialist Students society stall and 'refund the fees' campaigning in Birmingham, with support and sign-ups coming from students across all departments.
University management thought it was necessary to send campus security and police to the stall, to both watch us and constantly ask if we were "holding another protest?" There were seven in total as well as a police van and security car.
If our protest last week got under the skin of the university management, then good! Maybe now the university bosses will start listening to the thousands of students organising, on and off campus, for opening up the books of university accounts. And for a refund of all tuition fees and to stop the university acting like a profit-making business.
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The results of austerity have been graphically demonstrated as public services strain to cope with the crisis.
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In The Socialist 4 November 2020:
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Unison
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News
A lockdown that doesn't include education?
Testing is failing - it's a privatised mess
Furloughed worker speaks out: Let down by insecure contracts
Workplace
Transport for London given funding stop gap
Usdaw needs a fighting leadership
Birmingham NHS porters' 48-hour strike against shift changes
Optare strikers escalate their action
International news
Chile: A defeat for the right!
Poland: Mass protests against abortion ban
Campaigns
Save St Andrews mental health ward
Leeds protesters demand "Buhari must go!"
Building Bangor Socialist Students
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