Europe Solidaire Sans Frontières
, by Collective / Multiple signers
An open letter in support of the current student revolt, the railworkers’ strike, and the struggles in defence of public services in France.
“Professional troublemakers.” Such was the term Emmanuel Macron used on the ORTF news programme at 1 o’clock on Thursday 12 April. He was insistent (...)
, by SMITH David
After experimenting with tuition fees, all the federal German states have been persuaded to reverse their decision. In the UK and US, there is no political will to change the policies which are blighting whole generations. The only way forward is to copy German protest movements.
The (...)
, by CHESSUM Michael
The leader of the opposition’s victory is a product of protest – something we never thought possible at the time of the tuition fee marches.
On 4 November, as the government plans further attacks to maintenance grants for the poorest students, the student movement will hold a national (...)
, by TZANINIS Yannis
In the last months, student and staff protests have taken the University of Amsterdam by storm. The protest movement against UvA’s decade-long neoliberal reforms seems very recent but its foundations were set some time ago.
It started in the summer 2014 when the UvA social sciences were (...)
, by PENNY Laurie
“This is scary but not as scary as what’s happening to our future.”
It’s a bright, cold November afternoon, and inside 30 Millbank, the headquarters of the Conservative Party, a line of riot police with shields and truncheons are facing down a groaning crowd of young people with sticks and (...)
Socialist Worker is reporting live from the national student and lecturer protest in London against Tory education cuts and fee increases.
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While the media are complaining about a small minority causing “trouble”, there are at least 1,500 students at the front of (...)
, by FEDI Valentina
Rome’s Sapienza University is one of Italy’s most prestigious universities and Europe’s biggest with more than 140,000 enrolled students. But this northern autumn, despite the cold weather outside, Sapienza University — like many others in Italy — is at boiling point.
The heat is in response (...)
, by BERNOCCHI Piero
15 October in Italy: 30% of workers of State School on strike and one hundred thousand in the streets.
Teachers, staff, students, parents and workers of other fields demonstrate in defence of State School as a Common Good
A really great day for the fight to defend a crucial common good (...)
, by BERNOCCHI Piero
A great fighting day the one on 12th March 2010 against the attempt to destroy Italian state school system. An exciting reawakening day of State school workers and students.
The national general strike achieved a participation beyond expectation: from data coming from main Italian cities, (...)
, by Correspondent(s)
Throughout the last few years, studying conditions at Austrian universities have dramatically declined. The introduction of tuition fees, a massive cutback of democratic structures and lack of course availability are only some examples. Reasons can be found in the huge decline in university (...)
, by DOBSON Tim
On October 23, an estimated 30,000 university students took over Rome’s streets. Marching to the chant of “Berlusconi is a piece of shit”, students passed the train station, receiving cheers from young Kurdish immigrants.
The students then joined up with young people from the Horus social (...)
, by Correspondent(s)
French youth continue to show their potential for mobilising against education reforms. This time it is the turn of high school students, who, during the last weeks, have been on the streets against the suppression of teachers’ jobs in high schools.
Everything started with the Sarkozy (...)
, by LOUKA Maria, SARTZEKIS Andreas
“What we are seeing is an ongoing process in which the movement becomes stronger and takes on a mass character: if we take the demonstrations as a barometer, we can see today several demonstrations of 30,000 to 40,000 participants, and almost all the university departments are occupied.” (...)
, by SAP (Denmark)
Socialistisk Arbejderparti - SAP
After several years of turmoil and in some instances right out battles in the streets, there is now just an empty piece of land, where there used to be a house filled with initiative and creativity, a house that was also a symbol of both the workers and the (...)
, by KOUVELAKIS Stathis
There is currently the most important student mobilisation to have happened in Greece since the 1970s. The target of the mobilisation is the draft law that would: make private universities possible (they even propose to amend the Constitution to remove all legal obstacles); require public (...)
20,000 students at the largest student march in the past 20 years surge through downtown Athens on June 8th. 1,200 students of the School of Economics voted in favor of continuing the occupation of the university in a count that took place in 3 lecture halls! 2,000 students in the jam-packed (...)
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