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Education Not for Sale | 05.01.2007 14:38 | Education | Social Struggles | Workers' Movements | London | South Coast

A day of political discussion, training and planning for student activists organised by Education Not for Sale, No Sweat and Students Against Sweatshops. Come and join other student activists to discuss how can we argue for, organise for and campaign for radical ideas in the student movement.

11.30-3.30pm, TGWU Transport House, Theobalds Road, Holborn, London

Sessions will include:

- International workers’ solidarity: speakers include Amrah Johnson, from United Students Against Sweatshops in San Francisco talking about her recent visit to the Kenyan labour movement
- Grants for all vs means-tested grants, and the politics of “Tax the rich” with ENS
- The Radical Students Network introduces itself
- How to organise an occupation and direct actions, with the Radical Students Network and Cambridge ENS
- Planning session for the No Sweat anti-sweatshop week of action on campuses, 12-18 February
- Building and spreading living wage campaigns: speakers about living wage campaigns at universities around the country
- Building a left challenge in NUS
- Planning session for Feminist Fightback abortion rights march on 3 March (women-only)
- Solidarity with students and workers in Iran

For more information email or ring 07815 490 837

All welcome

Education Not for Sale
- e-mail: sofie.buckland@nus.org.uk
- Homepage: http://www.free-education.org.uk

Additions

Conference Date

06.01.2007 00:38

Apparently it's on the Sunday 14 January

Rich


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Please Remove The Post

05.01.2007 17:03

This organisation is a front for the Labour Party and their old side kicks the Union of Jewish Students. These two organisations have repeatedly and undemocratically carved up the NUS for decades, providing a platform for New Labour hacks to become MP's and preventing any criticism of the state of Israel by student unions.

As a political party the Labour Party has killed more non-white people in Iraq than the BNP could ever dream of, it has miss-led Britain into an unlawful war and is screwing British workers (of all colours) by mass immigration in order to keep wages low so the CBI can make money.

Their campaign against 'Theocracy' never mentions that all marriages in Israel are subject to religious authorities and a rabbi must give permission before a woman can divorce her husband - so much for Israel being like a democratic western society or any less 'Theocratic' than Iran.

This organisation is a propaganda front preparing people for the forth coming war against Iran - check out who also is beating the war drums!

Why the fuck is this organisation being allowed to advertise on Indymedia? Why not give David Cameron or Nick Griffin the chance to put across their points of view?

The struggle against the BNP begins with the struggle against New Labour!

No Platform for Fascists and Racists!

No War but the Class War!




Marius Van Der Lubbe


Van De Rubbish

05.01.2007 19:30

The motions which Education Not for Sale has put forward at NUS conference have, for the most part, been opposed by the right-wing Labour Students bloc. ENS is a vital radical force within NUS and has nothing to do with the Blairite careerists who threaten to wring the life out of the Union.

The briefest perusal of the literature put out by the organisations who are listed above will show that they are opposed to the neoliberal agenda put forward by New Labour, whilst acknowledging that the Labour Party - as a party founded by and for the Trade Unions - still has the potential to become a radical force in the future, so long as socialists engage with the party, the unions and each other - and don't engage with the petty, paranoid, knee-jerk sectarian bickering being spouted by Lubbe above.

left unity


ehm....

06.01.2007 00:36

regardless of the nature of the group, summat a bit more pressing: what is the date for this conference? your post doesn't actually say....

rasputin


left unity,,, a question...

06.01.2007 08:09

you claim free-education to be anti labour, but have said nothing about the links with the union of jewish students.............is there a reason why?

silent bob


more like AWL crap

09.01.2007 21:53

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red letter