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Student Protests and the Emerging Discontent of Youth By Oliver Huitson
The “iPod generation” have long been written off as apathetic, pampered wasters; a collection of illiterate Nathan Barleys draining their parents resources. Yet, from the storming of Tory HQ to campus occupations across the country, it is those same youth now leading public resistance to the Coalition’s cuts. The tripling of tuition fees is unquestionably… Continue reading
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Jody McIntyre: It is rough out there
“Suddenly, four policemen grabbed my shoulders and pulled me out of my wheelchair. My friends and younger brother struggled to pull me back, but were beaten away with batons. The police carried me away. Around five minutes later, my younger brother was also forced through, the wheelchair still in his hands.” Continue reading
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Imaginationland
Imagine it was North Korea, says China. Imagine it was Iran or Zimbabwe or Burma. Among scenes of ‘violence’, with police lashing out at protesters landing one in hospital with a serious brain injury, there is some shocking footage: Continue reading
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Published for the first time, the papers which could finally force full inquest into the death of Dr David Kelly By Miles Goslett
Today, the Daily Mail publishes for the first time the legal document which could trigger a full coroner’s inquest into the death of Dr David Kelly. The document, formally known as a memorial was written by group of campaigning doctors who have been trying to secure an inquest since 2004. It lists the sequence of… Continue reading
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Media Lens: What Happened To Academia? – Part 1
We have long been fascinated by the silencing of academe. How does it work in an ostensibly free society? What are the mechanisms that bring the honest and outspoken to heel? The late historian Howard Zinn described how the well-intentioned desire to work for progressive change “gets tangled in a cluster of beliefs so stuck,… Continue reading
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Our youth are leading the way By Jeremy Corbyn
From the comfort of the Commons, Business Secretary Vince Cable – having turned from economic saint to monetarist ogre in seven months – calmly told the house that state support for higher education teaching would reduce from 60 per cent to 40 and that the rest would be ‘made up by the private sector.’ Continue reading
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BREAKING NEWS: Edinburgh Council Boycotts Veolia!!!
Veolia works with Israeli authorities in Occupied Palestine to provide waste and transport services to Israel’s illegal settlements. The French multinational has already lost contracts across Europe due to sustained protest over its complicity in Israel’s war crimes. Continue reading
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The best 4 minutes and 50 seconds you’ll spend today: ‘We are no longer that post-ideological generation.’
UK: Fifteen year-old tells Establishment to stick it Continue reading
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Made in Dagenham: Lessons for Today from the Golden Age of Factory Unrest? by Steve Early
In 1968, the world was transfixed by global student unrest. Less attention was paid to factory uprisings that occurred at the same time and overlapped with campus protests in places like France. In one small corner of the Ford Motor Company’s huge production complex in Dagenham, England, several hundred women did their part in the… Continue reading
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Shock and despair By William Gladys
Why was there no parliamentary vote on whether or not these appallingly selfish and vastly rich royals should get yet more money from a hard pressed British tax-payer, at a time when the Queen’s government (not yours believe me), is asking everyone else to suffer severe hardship and cut backs? Do not forget that these… Continue reading
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Glasgow against education cuts
The demonstration at 12:00 (noon) today at Glasgow University is still going ahead. Please come down for some company, training and so on. Join this, or your nearest demonstration, if there is no large event going on at your own institution. THIS IS IN JUST OVER AN HOUR, GET YOUR WELLIES ON. Continue reading
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Police provocation and media management By Luna 17
‘The placing of an empty police minibus (in Whitehall) in the path of a known militant march of student demonstrators is a ‘red rag to a bull’. It is nothing short of entrapment and because of the huge policing resources and plans the police made to kettle demonstrators, is part of a deliberate ‘newsmaking’ for… Continue reading
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UK: Student Actions – Only the Beginning
Wednesday 24th November will go down as a day that shook the Con-Dem government. With school and college students walking out and protesting en masse and a wave of sit-ins and occupations in universities across the country, a movement has been born that can inspire millions. Continue reading
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UK: Fury builds over policing
An estimated 130,000 school, college and university students across Britain participated in the day of action, which saw protesters in London -some as young as 13 – pressed into an area at Whitehall for almost nine hours without access to food, water or toilet facilities. Continue reading
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STOP THE WAR COALITION Newsletter No.1180 25 November 2010
Congratulations to the thousands who marched last Saturday to bring the troops home from Afghanistan. And many thanks to all those who have sent messages of support to Stop the War, CND and the BMI for organising what was a very diverse, vibrant and angry demonstration. Continue reading
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Russel Tribunal on Palestine, London Session: Corporate Complicity in Israeli War Crimes
The second international session of the RToP will take place in London, on 20, 21 and 22 November 2010. It will examine *International corporate complicity in Israel’s Violations of International Human Rights Law, International Humanitarian Law, and War Crimes*. Continue reading
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South London Bin Veolia Campaign
MERTON PSC are running a ‘Bin Veolia’ campaign to prevent South London Waste Partnership – covering London Boroughs of Merton, Sutton, Croydon and Kingston upon Thames – from awarding a 25-30 year contract worth £990 million to develop a waste treatment infrastructure to Veolia, a company identified by PSC as a ‘complicit’ firm. Complicit in… Continue reading
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Stars come out for Palestine Solidarity Campaign’s Winter Concert
Television and West End stars will be coming together in December to perform for the Palestine Solidarity Campaign (PSC) in a fundraising Winter Concert. PSC’s Winter Concert is on Tuesday 7 December at the Polish Centre, King Street, Hammersmith. Continue reading
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What happened at Millbank? By Laurie Penny
A huge demonstration of students and their supporters in London last week–twice as large as organizers had hoped for–rocked British politics as the new Conservative-Liberal Democrat coalition government faced the strongest act of defiance yet against its program of austerity. Continue reading
