Students Follow

Around 250 school students from King Edward school in Sheffield have marched on the city’s Town Hall this evening.

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.

Leeds University occupation goes into second week Some 100 students have been occupying Leeds University since Day X, Wednesday 24 November. They went in following the march by 3,000 people in the city against education cuts.

The student demonstration in central London as part of Day X2, Tuesday 30 November 2010

University of Exeter Cornwall campus occupation Thirty of us are currently occupying the Lower Stannary building against the education cuts. We are refusing to pay for the crisis of the bankers and greedy politicians who are ruthlessly putting profits before people.

Thousands of students poured out of schools, colleges and universities on Wednesday of last week—the biggest student walkouts since those against war in Iraq in 2003.

The anger felt by students and young people across Britain has become a movement.

If everyone gets behind the student revolt then this government can be beaten over the rise in university tuition fees to £9,000 a year.

The student revolt has broken the idea that there is a "cuts consensus" in Britain.

5.45pm Day X2 has seen tens of thousands of school, college and university students take to the streets to fight the government's plans to devastate education.