Prevent is one of the four strands of the government’s counter-terrorism strategy, ‘Contest’, created by the Labour government in 2003, and later widened in 2011. It is farcically described as “a community safeguarding programme” to stop people becoming involved in terrorism. This hinges on a system of reports from ‘community Read more…
There is a growing sense of anger and horror at the destruction of our environment by the irresponsibility of a few – the handful of monopoly capitalists who control the banks, big business, and all the levers of the economy. It is crucially important that the movement to protect our Read more…
The University of London’s Senate House building provided the inspiration for the Ministry of Truth in George Orwell’s 1984. It seems only fitting that the university does everything it can to live up to the Ministry’s reputation. Students recently occupied Senate House in solidarity with the IWGB strike over the Read more…
Blairite cliques are still in control of a sizable number of Labour Student societies across the country. In Chester, Swansea and Hull these societies have released statements calling for disciplinary action against the left-wing Labour MP Chris Williamson. The statements gloss over, in vague terms, the exact wrongdoing against which Read more…
Over the last week, hundreds of workers at colleges across the country have been on strike, demanding a meaningful increase to their currently stagnant pay. After years of failed negotiations with the Association of Colleges (AoC), Further Education (FE) staff have escalated their struggle for a decent income. In a Read more…
The TUC demonstration on Saturday 12 May was filled with an encouraging sense of optimism, although also with a feeling that this kind of brief demonstration is not quite enough on its own to solve the problems that working class people are currently facing. The atmosphere of optimism that surrounded the Read more…
Beginning on 30 May the University and College Union (UCU), the largest higher and further education trade union in the world, will be holding its national congress in Manchester. On the agenda, among many other things, is a motion submitted from the Kings College London branch of the UCU expressing Read more…
An Intergenerational Commission set up by the Resolution Foundation think-tank has published a report on young Britons’ strained living standards and the elderly’s concerns about health and social care. The report concludes that 25 year-olds should receive a £10,000 “citizen’s inheritance” to help them buy their first home or reduce Read more…
The most recent report from the NUS Poverty Commission, aimed at highlighting the barriers to further education faced by working class students, is the culmination of a year-long study. The problems it highlights are very real ones, which working class students know all too well, of being unable to access Read more…
“The election of France’s youngest-ever president at 39 years of age, by an overwhelming majority, marked a new chapter in France’s history.” The words of Stephane Legrand’s article for a Warwick University publication (the Boar) are an enthusiastic voice for the liberal leader Emmanuel Macron; a voice that is poorly Read more…
In a remarkably honest admission on part of the Conservatives, they revealed their deep-rooted racism with the Cambridge University Conservative Association (CUCA) hosting the white supremacist, Denis Walker on 25 April. Walker was Minister for Education in Ian Smith’s white minority government in what was then Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe), a Read more…
A recent article on the Warwick Tab has attacked the newly elected left-wing presidents of Warwick Labour, Fraser Amos, and Warwick Pride, Ky Andrea, over tweets about LGBT Tories. The “offending” tweets by the President of Warwick Pride say, “Tory Gays F*** off,” and “Tory Gays go home”, whilst Fraser Read more…
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