Students Follow

This year’s National Union of Students (NUS) conference takes place against a backdrop of huge cuts in higher education—but of revolt and struggle too.

Hundreds of Sussex University students were defying management threats as Socialist Worker went to press.

Around 200 Sussex students have occupied a lecture theatre demanding the reinstatement of the "Sussex Six". A high court injunction banning protest on campus has failed to crush militancy.

Bosses have raised the stakes for students and lecturers struggling against cuts at Sussex university.

Students are leafleting campuses across London this morning to build the protest against the racist English Defence League (EDL) who are marching on parliament today.

Riot police on Sussex University campus as students protest against cuts at the university and in solidarity with students already in occupation, Wednesday 3 March 2010

Police attacked a peaceful demonstration against cuts at Sussex University today, Students report there were 16 police vans on campus as students demonstrated in solidarity with a group who were already in occupation. Police struck as demonstrators attempted to enter the building and join the occupation.

Over 80 students have occupied at Sussex University in protest at management’s continuing plans to make savage cuts. The students are also acting in solidarity with their teaching staff, who have voted overwhelmingly for industrial action.

Students at Westminster University in central London have occupied part of a university building in protest at proposed cuts.

Around 150 students have occupied the roof and conference centre of Bramber House at Sussex University, near Brighton, today. They are protesting at management’s plans for cuts across campus. The conference centre is often hired out to private companies.

There has been no let up in the media witch-hunt of Reza Pankhurst, a postgraduate teacher at the London School of Economics (LSE).