International Socialist League 7.30pm Tuesday 23rd August Caledonia Pub Catherine Street Last weekend the streets of Britain erupted in anger and frustration across 15 cities and 41 places in London. The spark for this began in Tottenham when the police arrogantly and disrespectfully failed respond to serious concerns about the shooting dead by police of [...]
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Public meeting: Riots in the Financial Quarters and Uprisings on the Streets
Posted in Britain, ISL, tagged criminalise, London uprising, mark duggan, riots, youth anger on August 22, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Half a Million in London
Posted in Britain, ISL on April 24, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Margaret McAdam and Martin Ralph 3 April 2011 It was clear in the build up to 26th March that the demonstration was going to be huge. Trade unions across the country had mobilised and chartered trains and coaches for their members and families. The atmosphere on the day was carnival like but it was also [...]
Warmest greeting to British students who refuse to pay for the crisis that great business has caused.
Posted in Argentina, Britain on December 10, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
In the southern cone of Latin America (Argentina, Chile, Uruguay, etc) students have fought many battles. Some were won, some were lost, others are still going on. At present this is summer holidays here, so occupations of schools and universities have for a while faded away but this does not mean students have returned to [...]
Solidarity from California Students & Workers to the British student movement
Posted in Britain, USA on December 10, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
One Struggle! One Fight! International Education Movement Unite! We, the members of the Student Worker Action Team, a UC Berkeley based workers and students group fighting back the budget cuts and fee hikes, and the undersigned send our fullest solidarity with the mobilized students in the U.K. who have been occupying their schools, blockading streets and protesting [...]
Build For the Mass Actions – Support Students and Occupations
Posted in Britain on December 10, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
The mass movement against education cuts continues. School, college and university students came together in actions against the Government plans in a massive show of wit, anger and initiative by students on 24 November. Occupations, some calling for international solidarity, continue and are increasing and another national day of action takes place today, 30 November. [...]
NO IFS NO BUTS – SUPPORT STUDENTS AGAINST THE CUTS
Posted in Britain, Uncategorized on November 25, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
The mass movement against education cuts continued with a great show of humour and anger by students across the country. School, college and university students came together in actions against the Government plans. Estimates put the figure at around 40,000. Reports from the BBC and National Campaign Against Fees and Cuts (NCAFC) state that 1,000s [...]
Liverpool TUC Support the Student Movement
Posted in Britain on November 21, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Media coverage of the November 10th UCU/NUS demonstration has been dominated by the occupation of the Conservative Party headquarters at Millbank Tower. At a time when students are being told that they will need to take out mortgage-sized loans in order to finance a degree and when funding cuts threaten the viability of entire institutions, [...]
ELIA and LILY MUST STAY
Posted in Britain, Uncategorized on November 21, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Elia is a photojournalist /filmmaker, and his wife Lily is an actress and poet. Through their work both have addressed sensitive social issues regarding the Iranian regime, and as a result, both were forced to leave Iran. The films that Elia made are banned by the Iranian authorities. As a result, the films have never [...]
50,000 angry protestors march in London
Posted in Britain, ISL Leaflets on November 14, 2010 | 3 Comments »
The mass movement begins as the war continues Unions mobilised students and education workers to support a joint national demonstration in London in protest against the tripling of tuition fees and massive cuts to colleges and university education on Wednesday 10th November. They are also stopping EMA (a grant up to £30 per week) which [...]
