STUDENTS UNITE! The NUS is NEEDS YOU!
Molten Magma | 05.02.2004 16:20 | Education | Liverpool
The NUS is calling for a National Shutdown of Education on the Wednesday 25th February.
Below is an article copied from the Social Workers Student Society that informed me of how much money the Government has and how much it is willing to waste rather than privallege students.
Fellow Students I am calling for you to unite and walk out on the 25th February.
Below is an article copied from the Social Workers Student Society that informed me of how much money the Government has and how much it is willing to waste rather than privallege students.
Fellow Students I am calling for you to unite and walk out on the 25th February.
Education is a Right not a Privilege!
New Labour has demonstrated its cringing devotion to the interests of big business once again by voting to introduce top-up fees. Top-up fees are a disaster for working-class people wanting to go to university; they will act to further introduce the logic of the market into education. Opinion polls have consistently shown that most people in Britain oppose top-up fees. Once again, Blair and his gang of hypocrites have put the needs of the millionaire fat cats ahead of those of the millions ordinary people.
The whole system has been lobbied for the vice-chancellors of the county's most prestigious universities. Fat cats like Malcolm Grant at University College London and Richard Sykes at Imperial College argue that top-up fees are needed to solve a "funding crisis" (meanwhile vice-chancellors at newer institutions life University of East London and Kingston University have argued hard against them). It obscene for any Government, let alone that of the world's fourth richest country, to claim it has a public service funding crisis while at the same time it is free spending £6.3billion on illegal war.
For too long the Student anti-fees movement, under the leadership of the National Union of Students executive, has put its faith in negotiations with the New Labour Government rather than protests and mass direct action. This is a strategy that failed in 1997 when fees were introduced and has failed again on Tuesday the 27th of January when Blair managed to The Higher Education Funding Bill fees through despite the opposition of all the other parties.
SWSS believes that relying on cowardly Labour MPs to defend us is never going to defeat the neo-liberal agenda of Blair and company. We should build a mass movement modelled on the Stop the War Coalition to mobilise the tens of thousands of people who are willing to fight for free education that is open to all. On Wednesday the 25th of February, NUS has called a national day of Higher Education shut down. We should organise college occupations and major local demonstrations on this day.
New Labour has demonstrated its cringing devotion to the interests of big business once again by voting to introduce top-up fees. Top-up fees are a disaster for working-class people wanting to go to university; they will act to further introduce the logic of the market into education. Opinion polls have consistently shown that most people in Britain oppose top-up fees. Once again, Blair and his gang of hypocrites have put the needs of the millionaire fat cats ahead of those of the millions ordinary people.
The whole system has been lobbied for the vice-chancellors of the county's most prestigious universities. Fat cats like Malcolm Grant at University College London and Richard Sykes at Imperial College argue that top-up fees are needed to solve a "funding crisis" (meanwhile vice-chancellors at newer institutions life University of East London and Kingston University have argued hard against them). It obscene for any Government, let alone that of the world's fourth richest country, to claim it has a public service funding crisis while at the same time it is free spending £6.3billion on illegal war.
For too long the Student anti-fees movement, under the leadership of the National Union of Students executive, has put its faith in negotiations with the New Labour Government rather than protests and mass direct action. This is a strategy that failed in 1997 when fees were introduced and has failed again on Tuesday the 27th of January when Blair managed to The Higher Education Funding Bill fees through despite the opposition of all the other parties.
SWSS believes that relying on cowardly Labour MPs to defend us is never going to defeat the neo-liberal agenda of Blair and company. We should build a mass movement modelled on the Stop the War Coalition to mobilise the tens of thousands of people who are willing to fight for free education that is open to all. On Wednesday the 25th of February, NUS has called a national day of Higher Education shut down. We should organise college occupations and major local demonstrations on this day.
Molten Magma
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