Union Leadership Stands in the Way of Working People in Wisconsin In a surprise legislative maneuver last month, Republican legislators in Madison, Wisconsin, passed…
Mobilisation versus representation: the UK student movement in November and December 2010 This article was published in the January 2011 issue of The Commune. It argues…
Reflections on two years of Industrial Workers of the World organising in the education industry Bruce ‘the Bruiser’ Darden recalls and reflects on organising efforts at a Canadian university from 2008 to 2010.
Only the beginning of their offensive Leaflet distributed by Manchester Class Struggle Forum at both Manchester universities on Tuesday the 22nd of March and Thursday the 24th of…
On the Occupation at the University of Wisconsin Milwaukee, Warts & All Text examining significant problems and contradictions of university occupations. With occupations,…
The Charter of the Modern School The ICEM (Institut Coopératif de l'Ecole Moderne) and the FIMEM (Féderation Internationale des Mouvements de l'Ecole Moderne) are the official organisations of Freinet education. There are over 2000 Freinet teachers in state schools in France, where head teachers have no authority over the teaching methods in individual classrooms in their schools.) Even though the charter of the Modern School was produced some time…
After the Fall: communiqués from occupied California Collecting the major statements from the 2009/10 waves of university occupations, After the Fall is a love letter to the insurgent students and…
Wisconsin: war declared on state workers The Governor of the State of Wisconsin, Scott Walker, has just dropped the anvil on public sector workers statewide. This is the start of a…
Student radicals: An incomplete history of protest at the University of Sussex, 1971-75 Ed Goddard of libcom.org presents the history of student radicalism at the University of Sussex in…
NUS: What Now?, 1976 - Social Revolution An article from the 1970s about the National Union of Students which can still be relevant for today.
Student struggle in the Netherlands Last Friday, January 21, the Netherlands saw student action on a massive scale. Fifteen thousand students and sympathisers, maybe more, came together for a protest rally on the Malieveld in The Hague, the city in which the Dutch government is located. The action was called by student unions.
LSE: what it is and how we fought it A pamphlet detailing student activism in the 1960s at the London School of Economics, culminating in a campaign of direct action and occupations…