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The last few weeks have seen a new spate of agitational web videos, accompanying the amazing upturn of politicking in Britain in response to the brutal, ill-considered and philistine cuts proposed by the coalition government which took office last May.
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There are a surprising lack of convincing explanations as to why the capitalist class is pushing through the present unprecedented austerity drive – even at the risk of provoking both mass opposition and a double-dip recession. The following excerpts, from Hillel Ticktin’s recent articles in Critique, do offer an interesting partial explanation: Read more at: […]
University Struggles at the End of the Edu-Deal By George Caffentzis As students around the world start to take action against national governments’ university spending cuts, George Caffentzis sees a plane of struggle developing; one which acts against the crooked deal of high cost education exchanged for life-long precarity. We should not ask for the […]
Center for Social Media Posted by Patricia Aufderheide on November 24, 2010 The European Documentary Network , which has its annual meeting at the International Documentary Festival at Amsterdam, featured a workshop cosponsored by theFederation of European Film Directors (known by its French acronym, FERA) on the implications of the U.S. fair use movement for Europeans. In Europe, […]
Do you wanna marketise our education? We will educate your market! SOAS Occupation 2010 The first snows of winter have come early but it’s beginning to look like things are hotting up. The second mass student demonstration in a fortnight, and more to follow. One student website declares: ‘We shall not stop until we break […]
A small selection of links: If the State is trying to teach the kids a lesson, what they learn may be something else Thatcher’s children can lead the class of 68 back into action | Polly Toynbee Video: Student protests in London: A street-level view of the day Why we’re occupying Campaign for the Public […]
School music lessons could be hit as local councils make cuts and budgets are redrawn, it is feared. One in five music services, which support schools, expect councils will completely axe their grants and half fear cuts of up to 50%, a survey suggests. The Federation of Music Services warned that some services which help […]
The response to the Browne Report on university funding and student finance, and its subsequent interpretation by the Coalition government, has taken several forms amongst UK academics. Read more at LGS
The huge student protest on 10 November and the anger generated by the betrayal of election promises by the Liberal Democrats marks a new phase in British politics argues Neil Faulkner.