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Edinburgh Protestors Arrested in Day of Anti-Cuts Action

Thursday saw mass student protests in London and militant action in Glasgow as the Con Dem government passed a law allowing universities to charge £9,000 in tuition fees, part of the continuing impetus of capitalism and its political advocates toward destroying the free provision of education and the universal, collectivist ideas that underpin it. This law and the [...]

DAY X: live updates

Following demonstrations across Scotland yesterday, further protests are taking place today ahead of this evening’s parliamentary vote on tuition fees. I’ll try and post up information as we recieve it… 1300: Currently, several hundred students are on a free-flowing march around Glasgow city centre. Attempts have already been made to occupy both the Vodafone store [...]

"Education for the Masses": Edinburgh Students March Against Cuts

Today I participated in a demonstration in Edinburgh with hundreds of students against the cuts to higher education funding currently being proposed by the Con-Dem government in Westminster. This was part of a wave of student action today across Scotland, from Aberdeen to Glasgow, against attacks to higher education. This article reports the march, before giving my own [...]

Glasgow Uni students begin occupation against cuts and fees

At 1pm today we received word that around 100 people had started occupying Glasgow Uni’s Gilmorehill G12 Theatre. The group includes GU staff, students from every uni in Glasgow and school students. The occupation group are organising a teach-in to develop ideas for building the peoples’ opposition, from 5pm onwards – all anti-cuts activists welcome [...]

And it seems to me that you lived your life like a shitebag in the wind.

Mind when the media took it upon themselves to decide that Diana was “the people’s princess” even though she had just as little to do with us untitled scum as the rest of them? Well, Aaron Porter would do well to remember that just because the media treat you like you’re King of the Students [...]

Greek students show solidarity

Over the past two years, the youth, students and workers (and waggy tailed comrades alike) of Greece have been inspirational in their struggle against both the police violence of the Greek state, and its huge austerity drive and IMF bail-outs. We looked on as the mass demonstrations against police brutality, after the shooting of 15 [...]

Day 3: Evading kettles, Clegg no-show, Bureaucrats cave in

Yesterday saw another national day of action against tuition fees and education cuts, as momentum continues to grow ahead of the parliamentary vote in Westminster on tuition fees, expected within three weeks. Although it didn’t attract as much media attention as the two previous days of student protest (on the 10th & 24th) – in no [...]

The resistance comes to Scotland: school strikes; uni occupations; thousands on the streets

Today’s massive student protests represented the first nationally co-ordinated days of action against Tory cuts and austerity. Across the country, students walked out of class, went into occupation and took to the streets to show their opposition to the government’s plans to wreck the education system as we know it, through huge cuts to schools [...]

Tories Out, Students In!

If you’re reading this blog, you’re probably already well aware of Wednesday’s huge demonstration against education cuts that took place in London. Over the past few days a massive amount has already been written about it, both in the mainstream press and all over the internet and social media. It was a brilliant demonstration. Myself and [...]

It's official: students in England face £9,000 annual fees

If last month’s Browne Review was the warning shot, today’s announcement that the government intend to treble the cap on fees for higher education in England to an astounding £9,000 a year, is the declaration of war. All universities will be able to charge up to £6,000 a year, double the current rate of £3,290. However, [...]