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Key struggles in education

Academic staff at over 60 universities across the UK are set to take strike action over the next two weeks. Next Thursday 17 March will see the first day of action, with members of the UCU union at seven Scottish universities walking out. This will be followed by consecutive days of action in Wales, Northern Ireland [...]

Being in a trade union isn't the same as being working class.

Last week, local authorities across Scotland unveiled their budgets for the next year. The councils put on a united front of horrific cuts for all. Hopefully comrades from across the country can update us on what their council’s budget will mean for them – let’s have a little look at Glasgow first of all. Glasgow [...]

In Praise of the Free Hetherington

Yesterday, I spent the evening in the company of a great bunch of people at the newly occupied Hetherington Research Club. It was absolutely brilliant! I was there for about 4 hours, and I wish I could have stayed longer. I got a quick tour of the building, from the kitchens in the basement, through [...]

Viva la Hetherington Libra!

The occupation of the Hetherington Research Club at Glasgow University entered its third day today, and continues to go from strength to strength. The club is now a fully functioning social and educational space, with an ever-expanding schedule of meetings, film showings, discussion groups, workshops and more. Yesterday, the occupation was privileged to get a [...]

Students occupy Research Club at Glasgow Uni

It’s been a hectic few days for the anti-cuts struggle in Glasgow. After Saturday’s frantic day of charging around the city centre for the Glasgow Against Education Cuts organised ‘tour of cuts and cutters’, which saw the arrest of one student activist, early yesterday afternoon dozens of students from across Glasgow reclaimed the former post-grad [...]

Cameron lose your smile, let's do this Egyptian style

Police kettles were smashed, corporate tax dodgers forced to close their doors and Wetherspoons even packed away all their tables in a riot prevention measure yesterday, as militant anti-cuts protests hit Glasgow city centre. Hundreds of people took to the streets in the city, embracing a diversity of tactics in the latest show of opposition [...]

Angry mob storm RBS

A two hour occupation of Royal Bank of Scotland offices in central Glasgow took place earlier today, in protest at fatcat bankers taking billions in bonuses while the rest of us suffer the cuts and austerity of the economic crisis they caused. Around twenty people – including climate change activists, students, 80 year old pensioners, [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

The Winter of Discontent is here and now

This week, the Coalition government will face its first major test as it attempts to rush its proposals for the future of Higher Education funding in England – the tripling tuition fees from their current level – through the House of Commons. Huge pressure is coming to bear on Liberal Democrat MPs – nearly all of [...]