Hundreds of school, college and sixth form students from across Barnet in north London marched to the local Tory Party HQ in Finchley last night chanting "No ifs, no buts, no education cuts!"
Students’ day of rage rocked the government
The student demonstration in London last week was really positive, attracting lots of media attention, raising the profile of the issues and showing how angry people are.
Arguments are still raging over what happened as students’ seething rage at Tory plans to treble university fees and slash education budgets burst onto the streets of London last week.
Under a clear blue sky, over 50,000 students took over central London. The feeder marches from ULU, LSE and King’s universities helped to set the boisterous tone of the day as students surprised police and stopped traffic on main roads.
Right to Work protesters and supporters of the London Coalition Against Poverty gave Iain Duncan Smith and Nick Clegg a warm welcome when they arrived to unveil their Work Fair scheme last week.
More than 150 people marched through central London on Friday of last week demanding justice for Jimmy Mubenga. Jimmy died last month as three G4S private security guards were forcibly deporting him to Angola at Heathrow airport.
Workers at two London bus companies have rejected miserly pay offers and are moving towards strikes. Drivers at London United are set to strike for 24 hours on Monday after voting by 525 to 295 to reject a revised pay offer.
Hundreds of people joined the debates at the four-day Historical Materialism conference in central London last week. Among the highlights were meetings on the way forward for the women’s movement and the engagement between Marxism and feminism.
