Student Movement
When Columbia Students Are Under Attack, We Must Stand Up, Fight Back!
On January 19, two Columbia University students who are former Israeli Defense Forces soldiers attacked students with a chemical-based weapon called “skunk,” at a campus protest against the genocide of Palestinians. Students must unite with workers to defend our movement; from Palestine to Low, the attacks have got to go!
K.S. Mehta
February 2, 2024“Whatever they label us, we know what we’re fighting for”: Interview with a Palestinian organizer in New Jersey
In this interview a Palestinian student and community organizer discusses the repression and solidarity they’ve experienced building the movement for Palestine in North Jersey.
Samuel Karlin
January 22, 2024New Jersey High Schoolers Walked Out for Palestine and Received Death Threats
In West Orange, New Jersey, high schoolers organized a walkout for Palestine. The backlash they faced shows the repression of the movement for Palestine throughout the state.
Samuel Karlin
January 2, 2024Rutgers University Suspends Students for Justice in Palestine
The move to ban SJP at New Jersey's largest university comes amid a wave of escalating attacks on the student movement for Palestine.
Olivia Wood
December 13, 2023An Attack on One is an Attack on All: Academic Workers and Students Pledge to Fight Attacks Against Pro-Palestinian Organizers
The following pledge, signed by dozens of pro-Palestine organizations and counting, states that we will unite to fight against the repression under the principle that if you touch one of us, we all rise up. It launches a network of students, faculty, and staff fighting repression on their college campuses. We invite you to sign the statement and pledge to stand up against repression on campus and for a free Palestine.
CUNY4Palestine
November 21, 2023Palestine Is a Worker Struggle: UAW Graduate Student Workers in California Show Solidarity with Palestine
UAW graduate students at the University of Southern California joined the walkout for Palestine during their picket line. U.S. labor must fight for Palestinian liberation!
Maryam Alaniz
November 16, 2023NYC School Walkouts Show How Students Are Leading the Movement for Palestine
Students led hundreds of school walkouts in NYC converging into a rally in Bryant Park which was attended by thousands of pro-Palestine activists. These walkouts show the importance of young activists leading an anti-imperialist movement and the need for workers to join in solidarity.
Samuel Karlin
November 9, 2023New York Students Will Walk Out for National Day of Action for Palestine
New Yorkers at four different universities are walking out on Wednesday In response to Students for Justice in Palestine’s call for a nationwide day of action.
Olivia Wood
October 24, 2023Occupation in Rennes, France: The Socialist Party Calls the Police to Repress Mobilized Youth
On February 8, students in Rennes, France, occupied their City Hall to protest President Macron’s neoliberal pension reforms. The next day, the occupation was forcibly evacuated by the police, who were called in by representatives of the Socialist Party. The NUPES alliance “condemned the occupation” in a statement without mentioning the repression.
Erell Bleuen
February 15, 2023The Night of Tlatelolco: 52 Years Since Students Were Massacred for Protesting Police Brutality
On October 2, 1968, just 10 days before the Olympic Games were to be held in Mexico City, students were massacred thanks to an anti-fascist law approved by its “revolutionary” government. The scars of the Tlatelolco massacre will forever remind the students of the importance of organizing against repression and police brutality.
Óscar Fernández
October 12, 2022