10,000 students from across the country demonstrated in London today on the national demonstration against cuts to education and public services organised by the NCAFC. [Read more...]
10,000 demonstrators kick start student fightback
November 9, 2011 By 4 Comments
Statement on Charlie Gilmour’s injustice
October 29, 2011 By 5 Comments
The rejection of Charlie Gilmour’s appeal yesterday does nothing but confirm what we had already suspected after his initial sentencing: the political victimisation of yet another individual, and an attempt to strike back at the student movement by a state which fears it might lose control.
Charlie was dealt a 16-month custodial sentence for “violent disorder” at the NCAFC-called London demonstration on December 9, 2010. In fact he hurt no one, unlike an unknown number of police officers on that day and on many others. We note that not one single police officer has been summoned for brutalising demonstrators, let alone sentenced.
Charlie’s actions on 9/12/10 would normally be described as “antics” when in reference to the activity of David Cameron’s alma mater, the Bullingdon Club. It is clear then that Charlie’s actual crime was to have been part of a strong and militant student movement. His imprisonment is entirely political, as is the decision to uphold his sentence.
The fact that Frank Fernie’s recent appeal was rightly upheld but Charlie’s was not is further proof of the extent to which the judiciary panders to tabloid smear-campaigning. The corruption of the system is equalled only by our contempt for it.
We will not forget the political sentencing of protesters like Charlie Gilmour, Frank Fernie, and Edward Woollard. When we march on November 9th, we will be marching for them too.
The National Campaign Against Fees & Cuts extends its regards to the friends and family of all the sentenced protesters, who likewise suffer from this twisted idea of “justice”.
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Electricians to join 9th November day of protest
October 25, 2011 By Leave a Comment
It won’t just be students taking to the streets on Wednesday 9 November.
Electricians who have taken direct action across the country against a 35% pay cut will be holding a national demonstration too, organised by the Unite union.
Through protests, walkouts and flash rallies during recent weeks, sparks have been targeting eight companies trying rip up their working conditions and de-skill their profession.
Many of those protesting have been victims of the construction ‘blacklist’ which is illegally used by some companies to exclude trade union activists from getting work.
Their actions so far have caused one construction company to pull out of the new agreement, but there are seven more to go.
In a similar way to students last winter, electricians have organised from below, holding rank and file committees that can take action when their official unions are too slow to act.
The National Campaign Against Fees and Cuts stands 100% behind the sparks, and we want to work with electricians to make sure that our protests converge on the 9th November.
Support our lecturers’ action against pension cuts! (Model motion)
October 14, 2011 By 3 Comments
In the run up to the November 30 pensions strike, University and College Union members at 67 pre-92 universities are taking industrial action short of a strike, which could escalate into a marking and assessment boycott. Here Pat Smith, a student and UCU activist at Hull University, explains why students should support them. [Read more...]
McUniversities for some, elitism for others: a briefing on the HE White Paper
October 10, 2011 By Leave a Comment
The NCAFC is producing a more detailed briefing on the White Paper. Meanwhile, we reprint this briefing written by NCAFC supporters Ed Maltby and Daniel Lemberger Cooper for Workers’ Liberty Students. [Read more...]
Letter in the THES: We support Edd Bauer
October 6, 2011 By Leave a Comment
A letter in the Times Higher Education Supplement in support of Edd Bauer, from student and working-class movement leaders across the country. [Read more...]
Strathclyde Uni occupied as Scottish students prepare for 1 October demo
September 29, 2011 By Leave a Comment
Students from across Scotland have occupied Strathclyde University against cuts and fees. [Read more...]
Labour movement support for Edd Bauer
September 29, 2011 By Leave a Comment
Support from student union officers and student activists across the country continues to flood in, but the campaign to reinstate Edd is also receiving wide labour movement support. It has been raised at Labour Party conference. Here are some of those backing Edd. Full list soon! [Read more...]
“Defence of Public Higher Education”
September 28, 2011 By Leave a Comment
The Campaign for the Public University has launched a “Defence of Public Higher Education”. [Read more...]
Reinstate Edd Bauer! Defend the right to campaign! For democracy in our SUs!
September 28, 2011 By 3 Comments
Birmingham University Guild of Students VP Education and NCAFC national committee Edd Bauer was arrested for fighting fees and cuts. As a result, the bureaucracy of his student union has… no, not congratulated him, but suspended him from office! [Read more...]
