Teachers in Bolton have backed a decision by their national NUT union to ballot for strikes to defend their pensions.
Another wave of walkouts is set to hit colleges on Monday 13 December—a day dubbed "Save EMA Day".
Bob Crow, the RMT transport union general secretary, wrote, emailed and sent text messages to union members to encourage them to join the student protest on Thursday.
Manchester activists set up a "Sponsor a student protester" Facebook page, asking for donations to help students travel to London.
The GMB union’s S38 branch in Sheffield this week voted to pay for a coach to take students to Thursday’s London demonstration.
The University of Cambridge is not particularly well known for its student radicalism. Our recent 10-day occupation may change this.
Many new occupations have bloomed across Britain this week.
Managements in universities across Britain have tried to intimidate students with the threat of injunctions—with some going as far as getting court orders to evict students.
The government is trying to dampen anger at its education cuts by offering concessions to poorer students.
Around 250 school students from King Edward school in Sheffield have marched on the city’s Town Hall this evening.
Monday has seen new occupations bloom across the country as students gear up for the biggest fight yet.
Thursday 9 December is the date when MPs will vote on whether to raise the cap on tuition fees to £9,000. This is the day to make a decisive stand—when workers and students need to walkout of classes, colleges, offices and factories to march on parliament.
