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Opinion: How Keir Starmer Paved the Way for the Tories’ Protest Crackdown

Nadine El-Enany

Alfie Meadows needed brain surgery after being struck by a police officer during the 2010 student protests. They then tried to criminalise him. The man responsible for public prosecutions at the time? Keir Starmer.

Student's occupying a tower in Manchester

Report: Is Coronavirus Incubating a New Student Movement?

Sophie K Rosa

Universities duped students into returning to campus, only to lock them down in halls. Angry and abandoned, students have organised rent strikes, occupations and protests. Is the experience of Covid on campus radicalising a new generation? Sophie K Rosa reports.

Jeremy Corbyn meets supporters in Middlesbrough, 11 December 2019.

Opinion: Who Will Represent the Young Now?

Ash Sarkar

Corbynism was a window in which young people were taken seriously, writes Ash Sarkar. But with Keir Starmer as Labour leader, that window has been firmly slammed shut – and likely with great political consequence.

Opinion: Students, Here’s How to Organise a Rent Strike

Rosa Porter

Universities conned thousands of students into returning to campuses across the country, only to almost immediately lock them inside their dilapidated and overpriced halls, while all teaching takes place online. For students who feel they have been treated unfairly, now is the time to strike, writes housing activist Rosa Porter - and here's how to do it.

A Dangerous Threat to Our Autonomy to Organise As Students

Hope Worsdale

University of Arts London students' union officer Sahaya James is facing dismissal from her role as campaigns officer, after leading a student campaign against the university's participation in gentrification. If James is sacked, it will set a dangerous precedent for the political autonomy of the student movement.

Interview With Matt Myers

Matt Myers is a doctoral student at the University of Oxford. He was a participant in the 2010 student movement and is the author of Student Revolt (Pluto, 2017).

5 Times Student Movements Kicked Ass in the Streets

Connor Woodman

Students have precipitated some of history's most dramatic confrontations with the state and capital. Here are five of the most militant mass actions waged by student movements across the world in the 20th century.

No to Gentrification, Yes to Rent Strikes: An Interview With Toronto’s Parkdale Organize

William Neumeister

Working class renters in Toronto have been on strike since May. Here's all you need to know about their ongoing fight.

Reducing ‘Drop-Out’ Rates for Black Students Means Institutional Transformation, Not Individual Support

Remi Salisbury

Black students are 50% more likely to drop out of university than their peers, but as long as solutions are geared towards individual ‘support’, the government’s commitment to racial equality remains superficial.

UCL Rent Strike: Over £1m Withheld, Victory Underway

David Dahlborn

20% of UCL renters are currently on strike, withholding over £1m in the process and showing that mass planned noncompliance is the hammer-blow exploitative landlords need.

2 Steps Towards the Socialisation of the UCU Strike

Callum Cant

Yesterday members of the University and College Union finished a 48 hour strike. Officially the dispute is over pay, but if staff and students want to take on the central issue - the marketisation of the sector - it will require some innovation.

3 Threats from the HE White Paper and 1 Way to Block the Government’s Plans

Anastazja Oppenheim

The new higher education white paper seeks to fundamentally overhaul the sector as we know it. But the plans depend on metrics extracted from student feedback, presenting students with a unique opportunity to sabotage the government's vision.

Long Read: What Is a Union For?

Luke Dukinfield

Sunday Long Read: Just part of the fallout of the recent NUS conference has been a conservative-led wave of calls for SUs to disaffiliate. At its root is a battle over the very purpose of a union.

Long Read: Cut the Rent: Striking Students on the Front Lines of the Housing Crisis

Anabel Bennett-López

Sunday Long Read: Rent-striking students at UCL show no signs of capitulating, and could even escalate their action before the academic year is up. Could the rent strike be the survival tactic needed to tackle the UK's housing crisis?

7 Reflections on the Battle of Parliament Square and the 2010 Student Movement

Craig McVegas and Arianna Tassinari

It's five years since the ‘Battle of Parliament Square’, when students marched on parliament to oppose the tripling of tuition fees. Many left bloodied, others radicalised and many more exhausted. Here are some thoughts on what we can learn.

Walkout, strike…then strike again? Next steps for the UK student movement

Josh Berlyne and Rachel Hallam

Medical doctors are being squeezed and the recent HE Green Paper signals tuition fees could rise again before long. The UK student movement intends to escalate its tactics: can it succeed where the 2010 student movement failed?

What is #ShutdownSOAS?

Callum Cant

Yesterday a SOAS trade unionist was suspended for "gross misconduct", having expressed solidarity with an ongoing student occupation. Today students and staff managed to close the university down in retaliation.

Free Education, the Middle Classes and Radical Education Policy: a 5-Point Analysis

Sol Gamsu

Nearly half of the UK's young people are going to university, so where does the institutional privilege lie and what can we say about social mobility? If the demand for free education is to be successful, we need a class analysis of HE.

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