29jan2011 demo2011
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For some, anarchy is a full-time job. The nature or cause of the event is a far secondary issue to the opportunity to disrupt people’s lives, destroy property, and flip the bird at authority. These folks devote their talents to devising new ways of creating quickly-constructed blockades of streets and buildings, improvising protective gear, and manufacturing weapons to use against riot police.Sukey
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BBC News - 'Travesty' of education changes
Austerity cabinet has 18 millionaires - Times Online
Britain’s biggest teaching unions have set a collision course with the Government after voting for further industrial action including strikes which could hit schools this summer. The National Union of Teachers will seek a one-day national strike before the end of June, while the NASUWT agreed that intensifying its own campaign was “essential” in the face of a “vicious and unjustified assault on teachers”.
BBC News - Students and unions hold protests
This page is best viewed in an up-to-date web browser with style sheets (CSS) enabled. While you will be able to view the content of this page in your current browser, you will not be able to get the full visual experience.This piece, more extensive than our previous interventions, offers a history of the economic crisis of capitalist deferral particularly with reference to struggles in the United Kingdom
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Published on Sunday 30 January 2011 14:51 PEACEFUL student protesters have criticised heavy-handed police tactics and claim officers are trying to cultivate them as insider informants. After further protests in London at the weekend, it emerged officers have been targeting Scottish students involved in the protests. A campaign has now been set up to help students being monitored by police, many of whom have been pinpointed after their pictures appeared in newspapers. Graeme Kirkpatrick, 30, president of the student association at Aberdeen College, told how police attempted to recruit him as an informant on fellow protesters. "They were quite adamant about asking about future actions and would I let them know.
Protest students: 'Police tried to turn us into informants' - Scotsman.com News
The experience of Gwen – a veterinary student involved with the MNAFC – of the demonstration in Manchester last Saturday:
Experience of the Manchester Demo | Merseyside Network Against Fees and Cuts
Manchester Evening News | Latest Manchester News, Sport, Football, Entertainment, Business and more | Manchester Evening News - menmedia.co.uk
Police have issued fines to 13 men who were arrested during disturbances in Manchester on Saturday following a march against government cuts to education. Two other men were fined - a 21-year-old man was fined for obstructing a public highway and a 17-year-old youth was fined for obstructing police.
Last night I attended a debate between AWL organizer Ed Maltby and journalist-cum-activist Laurie Penny.
On being called a cunt by Laurie Penny
Life on the front line of student activism. "No sex.
New Statesman - No sex. No drugs. And no leaders
The glorious row that shows why student revolutionaries will never take over the world – Telegraph Blogs
The People's Front of Judea - ancestors of today's student revolutionaries BAD LANGUAGE WARNING – Please don't click on the following link if you want to avoid bad language.AC: The anti-cuts protest in central London on Saturday 29th continued the trend we have been witnessing at the most recent student demos away from the formulaic A to B march and towards a decentralised form of civic swarming. At various points throughout the afternoon, groups of 50 to 1000 people broke off from the planned route of the march with no clear aims or direction other than to avoid kettles, stretch the police, shut down roads, carry out direct action where possible and generally have fun whist spreading our message across the city.