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29th Oct 2006 - Socialist Students at the NUS demo against raising the cap on top-up fees, from £3000 to £6000 or more. Fight for a Free Education!Socialist Students has launched the Campaign to Defeat Fees to channel the anger of the millions of students who are suffering because of fees and debt into a mass movement that is capable of defeating fees and other attacks on education by the New Labour Government.
Click here to sign our online Petition to Defeat fees in our education.

Who we are:

Socialist Students is a democraticly run student group based in universitys and colleges across the UK. Both our local and national campeins are desided on by our own members. Our members include a brawd range of students from different backgrounds and different pollitical affiliatons.

Socialist Students Fights For:

A fully funded publicly owned and democratically run education system at all levels

No to all top up and tuition Fees

For universal free education from nursery to university

The introduction of a living grant for all students

For an immediate raising of the EMA to £60 a week as a step towards an EMA which all students can live on

Write off all student debt

No to a graduate tax

No to the privatisation of education

No to city academies and trust schools

For fully funded comprehensive schools with decent class sizes

Support of struggles of education unions and workers for better conditions and pay

No to cuts and closures of courses, departments and facilities

Affordable, decent quality housing for students and all sections of society

Affordable provision of transport, libraries and other services in education institutions

Decent food at decent prices in canteens for students and education workers

A campaigning, democratic National Union of Students

The fight against cuts and closures to be co-ordinated nationally by fighting student unions

No to low pay, raise the minimum wage to the trade union minimum of £6.50 per hour as a step towards a living wage for all. For Trade Union rights at work

No to sexism, racism, homophobia and all forms of discrimination . No platform for fascists

Defend democratic rights and civil liberties

No to ID cards and police racism

For the right to protest and organise politically and at all levels of education

For a fully funded National Health Service and no to the privatisation of public services

For a new mass party of workers and youth. Support the Campaign for a New Workers Party

No to war and occupation build a democratic anti war movement in schools, colleges, universities, workplaces and beyond

No to terror, unity of workers and youth against racism, terrorism and imperialist wars

For an end to capitalism and environmental destruction. For a democratic Socialist world where major corporations are publicly owned and democratically planned by the working class

Visit our National website: www.socialiststudents.org.uk

Local Websites:

Southampton
London Met
Exeter
Huddersfield
Sussex
Cardiff
Warwick
Edinburgh
York
Brunel
Leicester
Leicester
Lincon
Durham (email only)
De Montford (email only)
Reading (email only)
Institute of Education, University of London
Portsmouth
Northampton
Some of our members requested the following videos:
Southampton Solent Unis protest against Top-up fees. Tommy Sheridans powerful speech at Socialism 2006:
The Revolution Will Not Be Televised
The following video is the full documentary "The Revolution Will Not Be Televised". If you haven’t seen this movie then I highly recommend that you do. It shows the reality of Venezuela, Chavez, and of the attempted, American led, coup against him.
The next video is also on Venezuela it was made by a Venezuelan Co-operative film company. "Venezuela Bolivariana: People and Struggle of the Fourth World War" uses much of the same footage as "The Revolution will not be Televised" however it fills in allot of gaps. Giving additional evidence about the attempted coup (photos of the police snipers firing at protesters), and also goes over the recent history of Venezuela. It covers past problems, Venezuela’s solutions, and its result. Its another very good documentary that stole the show at a number of different film festivals.


My Interests

Socialist Students talking to the NUS leadership about how to fight for a free education!

Rob from Lambeth University

I'd like to meet:

Socialists from all backgrounds.

Music:

Peace Juke Box, Faithless, Rage Against The Machine, Ms Dynamite - Watch Over Them , The Manic Street Preachers , Capdown, Chumbawamba - Jacobs Ladder (Not In My Name) , Propagandhi , John Lennon, The Others , Greenday , Seize The Day - United States, Life - Bush & Blair , GM Babyz - Pain of Life , Billy Bragg, Bob Dylan ,Yusuf Islam - aka - Cat Stevens, Leftover Crack, Anti Flag, Nasum.

Movies:

The Revolution Will Not Be Televised, Venezuela Bolivariana: People and Struggle of the Fourth World War , Noam Chomsky's Audio and Video Links , The Corporation , Fahrenheit 9/11 , Bowling For Columbine , Chew On This, The Politics of Oil, Manufacturing Consent , Bush Family Fortunes, Control Room, Uncovered: The Whole Truth About the Iraq War, Out Foxed, Super Size Me, Neo-Cons Plan, W.T.C. Demolition, Health Crimes, Oil, Painful Deceptions DVD, The Yes Men, The Edukators Good Morning Vietnam The Motorcycle Diaries, Good Bye Lenin! , City of God, Das Experiment , Metropolis, Brassed Off , 1984 , Brave Heart, Hotel Rwanda, Gorillas In The Mist

Television:

Check Out the Videos

Heroes:

Marx, Engles, Trotsky, Lenin