Springtime, the New Student Rebellions (Edited by Clare Solomon and Tania Palmieri. Verso.) The autumn and winter of 2010 saw the sudden and dramatic re-emergence of radical student movements, with mass student uprisings taking place across Europe and the United States in opposition to both the austerity measures being levelled against ordinary people as a…
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The need for grassroots action: an analysis of USI’s lobbying strategy
Words: Aidan Rowe FEE’s commitment to building a mass activist grassroots student campaign is not some abstract ideological position: it is firmly rooted in a practical understanding of the political situation. Polite lobbying of politicians does not work; it is only through mass grassroots activism that students can build a campaign capable of beating the…
“Fuck workers, protect students,” says USI
Words: Aidan Rowe On Saturday 11th December, USI National Council passed a motion allowing the USI leadership to call for the renegotiation of the Croke Park Deal, so that public-sector pay can be further cut in the hope of protecting students’ frontline services. The motion was proposed by UCD Student’s Union, who recently released a…
What do we mean by “free education”?
Words by Aidan Rowe. FEE is often thought to be just an anti-fees campaign group. However, the fight for genuinely free education is about much more than a defensive struggle over “free fees” (which is largely a semantic issue in any case, given the continuing rise in registration fees). Free education means free and equal…
