Student Movement
Over a Million Brazilians Strike, Protest Against Bolsonaro’s Cuts to Education
Over a million people took the streets against Bolsonaro and his proposed cuts to education.
Esquerda Diário
May 16, 2019Algerian Students: “We Are Not Going to Stop”
This is an interview with Algerian student activist Yani Aïdali, originally published in our French sister publication Révolution Permanente.
Yani Aïdali
May 1, 2019Hundreds of Thousands of Students Join the Climate Strike in Germany, Around the World
The #FridaysForFuture protests have expanded to 1,500 cities in 150 countries. Today hundreds of thousands of students left their classrooms and took the streets around the world. In Berlin, for example, almost 30,000 joined the #ClimateStrike.
Nathaniel Flakin
March 15, 2019Remembering the Massacred Students of Mexico City
Fifty years ago, hundreds of students were massacred by the Mexican military in the Plaza Tlatelolco in the midst of a massive student uprising. Their spirit of resistance lives in today’s Mexican student movement.
Jimena Vergara
October 2, 201820,000+ Students March Through Mexico City in Silent Protest
As part of a university movement against right-wing thugs on campus, thousands of Mexican students marched in silence to commemorate the Silent Demonstration of 1968.
Óscar Fernández
September 21, 2018Mexican Students on Strike Against University and Government Funded Shock Groups
Most schools and universities that make up the National Autonomous University of Mexico are on a 48-hour strike, the biggest in 18 years. What sparked this massive movement?
Joss Espinosa
September 7, 2018Student-Worker Solidarity in Action: The New School Cafeteria Occupation
The New School students and workers are living at an occupation to save the cafeteria workers jobs and fight union busting. This is a clear example of student-worker alliance and solidarity in practice.
Amelia Robles
May 4, 2018The New School Students Occupy Cafeteria in Defense of Workers’ Jobs
The New School planned to replace unionized cafeteria workers with student workers. On May Day, students occupied the cafeteria.
Left Voice
May 1, 2018On 50th Anniversary of Student Uprising, Columbia Grad Students Strike
Teaching assistants and research assistants at the university are demanding better pay and sexual harassment protections. This week’s strike comes 50 years to the day after 700 Columbia students were arrested in protest of the Vietnam War and the school’s expansion into Harlem neighborhoods.
Amelia Robles
April 26, 2018Graduate Students Stand Against the GOP Tax Bill
If enacted into law, the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act would force graduate students in the US to count their tuition waivers as “taxable income,” and have to pay federal income tax on said figures, which can be as high as $50,000 depending on the institution.
Emma Schuster
November 29, 2017