Student Broad Left

NUS Demo 2012 – Let’s March On Parliament – Against the Tories!

1st May 2012

At NUS Annual Conference last week delegates from across the UK overwhelmingly voted for NUS to take the fight to the Tories and hold a national demonstration against fees, cuts, privatisation and student debt.

It is now important that students show their support for NUS calling the national student demo in London, on Parliament and against the Tories.

PLEASE SHARE THE FACEBOOK EVENT AND INVITE ALL OF YOUR FRIENDS to build the pressure and momentum for the NUS demo to take place in London, against the Tories.

NUS Conference 2012: Liberation Campaigns set the agenda for a fighting NUS

29th April 2012

By Aaron Kiely, NUS NEC & Campaign Manager for NUS Presidential Candidate Kanja Sesay

This week at NUS National Conference, NUS Liberation Officers Kanja Sesay and Vicki Baars succeeded in transforming the agenda within NUS to take on the Tories’ cuts and challenge racist scapegoating.

NUS Must Change Direction: Unite and Fight the Tories

20th April 2012

NUS BSC and LGBT protesting against Tories

In light of the biggest attack on students and wider society for generations what will NUS do? Shall we have another year of standing idly by doing almost nothing? Or is it time to radically change direction and begin to defend students against the government’s assault? I believe that now is the moment for NUS to take the fight to the Tories and defend students.

NUS VP HE Usman Ali: ‘Vote YES to a national demo’

20th April 2012

We are delighted that NUS VP Higher Education and Presidential hopeful Usman Ali is fully in support of NUS organising a national demo to defend students in the autumn of this year.

‘Will the NUS President fight to defend further education?’ asks FE students

19th April 2012

Earlier this week a number of Further Education students wrote to NUS President Liam Burns – who is seeking re-election at this year’s conference – to support the call a national demo to defend FE students from fees and cuts. They are still waiting for a response.

Campaign for #NUSdemo2012 Grows: NUS Black Students’ Committee & Young Greens add their voices to the campaign

17th April 2012

The NUS Black Students’ Campaign Committee and the Young Greens are the latest organisations to officially back the campaign for the NUS to organise a national demonstration against education cuts and fees in the autumn of this year.

Kanja Sesay #1 for NUS President – Extended Manifesto

13th April 2012

Kanja’s record of fighting cuts, fees, racism, inequality and war is second to none. He will lead an NUS that actively defends students against the Tory-led government’s assault on students and the 99%. Waiting 3 years until the next General Election before do anything to oppose the government’s attacks on students will simply give a green light to the Tories’ to intensify their assault. We need a student fight-back to education cuts and £9K fees right now.

NO GREEN LIGHT TO THE TORIES! Over 100 student leaders call on NUS to organise a national demo

27th March 2012

The NUS Liberation Campaigns are leading a campaign for the NUS to organise a national demonstration this autumn against soaring student debt, tuition fees and education cuts.

Sign the 'NUS Demo 2012 - Yes We Can' statement by emailing kanja.sesay@nus.org.uk.

Tax is a distraction in the London mayoral race

10th April 2012

The London mayoral election is that most unusual thing in politics – the chance for voters in tough times to make themselves better off, by £1,000, or more. Fear that this message may get through leaves the Conservative party with only one strategy: distraction. It is the tactic of the right everywhere.

Aaron Kiely on NUS PRIORITY BALLOT: Prioritise free education, national demo, anti-racism and anti-war

4th April 2012

Aaron Kiely, NUS National Executive (Block of 15) & NUS Anti-Racism, Anti-Fascism Committee urges NUS delegates to prioritise free education, a national demonstration against cuts and fees, anti-racism anti-fascism, and funding education not war in the NUS National Conference Priority Ballot.

London students claim your £1,000 travel voucher on May 3

29th March 2012

Ken Livingstone is offering Londoners a £1,000 travel voucher on 3 May.

Please pass on this good news to your friends and colleagues so that they can claim theirs too!

All out to protest against Tory Cuts on Budget Day!

20th March 2012

Soaring student debt, record youth unemployment, savage attacks on our education and racist scapegoating is what the Tories’ have brought young people and students just two years into their government.

Coalition of Resistance is organising a protest with the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament, the Public and Commercial Services (PCS) union and Stop the War Coalition. This is planned to coincide with when George Osborne leaves Downing Street to present the budget to the Queen.

Join Fare Deal Tuesday – Campaign for lower transport fares in London

4th April 2012

Student Broad Left activists are joining Labour candidate for London Mayor Ken Livingstone’s ‘Fare Deal Tuesday’ on Tuesday 10th April to campaign for lower transport fares in London.

NUS LGBT Campaign unanimously votes for NUS to organise a national demo in 2012 to defend students

3rd April 2012

The NUS LGBT Campaign has joined the NUS Women’s Campaign in calling upon the NUS to organise a national demonstration in 2012 to defend students against education cuts and soaring student debt.

Sheffield University ‘Fund Education Not War’ Campaign Grows from Strength to Strength

23rd March 2012

A broad student campaign to end Sheffield University’s involvement with arms companies has been growing rapidly over the past few weeks. Al Hussein Abutaleb, Black Students’ Councillor at Sheffield University Students’ Union and Chair of the ‘Fund Education Not War’ campaign explains why.