WHO ARE SOCIALIST STUDENTS?

Socialist Students fights on local, national and international issues and is involved in different campaigns engaging thousands of students. While fighting to ensure that any action called by NUS is well-organised and successful, Socialist Students also fights to transform NUS into a body reflecting the movement and being accountable to it at all times.

But unlike the NUS leadership, Socialist Students has no illusions that our local MPs will stand up and fight for students’ and workers’ interests. We therefore initiate or help to build different independent campaigns through our societies on campuses across England and Wales (see list of societies below).

Socialist Students has been in the forefront of building the campaign against fees, cuts, closures and privatisation in higher and further education. We have organised petitions, meetings, lobbies, occupations and walk-outs as well as joining trade unionists on their picket lines when in disputes with employers over pay and conditions and for more public funding into our institutions.

We are also involved in the anti-war/anti-occupation movement and have organised demonstrations and strike action, calling on the lecturers and other academic staff to join in, while ensuring there is enough pressure on the local students’ unions and the national NUS to mobilise for such campaigns with all their resources.

Socialist Students regularly organises meetings and debates in the universities and colleges, do petitioning stalls outside our local students’ unions to take up the campaigns and contact trade union representatives for support.