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On 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, 2018Student-workers go on strike in Berlin
Seventeen years is a long time. And that's the last time Berlin's 11 colleges and universities – including the Free University, the Technical University and Humboldt – raised the salary for their student employees. But that could all change when their current employees go on strike, Tuesday, January 16
Nathaniel Flakin
January 13, 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, 2017Letter for Support of the Moroccan Student Movement
In this letter to an international audience, student activists in Morocco ask for solidarity in their struggle against the Moroccan government’s crackdown on students’ unions and democracy within the university system.
Mohamed El Wafi
December 4, 2016LONDON: 15,000 Protest Education Cuts
On November 19, 15,000 students protested against increasing university fees and the marketization of education.
Alejandra Ríos
November 21, 2016Oxford Students Demonstrate Against Trump’s Former Campaign Manager
University students in the UK organize protests against Trump on campus
Alejandra Ríos
November 17, 2016Books and Barricades: The Revolt in Brazilian Schools
More than 1,000 high schools and universities are currently being occupied by Brazilian students. Why are they occupying and what can this tell us about the current political situation in Brazil?
Tatiana Cozzarelli
November 3, 2016Hope is with the youth, the Kurds and the working class
More than 45,000 workers have been suspended and more than 8,000 are being held. The declaration of the “State of Emergency” is part of a bonapartist offensive by Erdoğan. In this interview Kaan Onat, a young Turkish militant in Germany analyzes the situation for youth, workers and the universities.
Kaan Onat
July 23, 2016Rebellion in France: What’s Next?
Nuit Debout, France’s massive mobilizations against a proposal to dismantle the country’s labor code, has drawn comparisons to similar international movements — Occupy, Turkey’s Gezi Park, the movement of the squares in Greece. This wealth of experience helps us look at Nuit Debout and its prospects going forward.
Stathis Kouvelakis
May 31, 2016New Revolutionary and Anticapitalist Youth Movement Formed
We have had enough of Capitalism! New anti-capitalist and revolutionary youth movement created in Brazil.
Esquerda Diário
April 16, 2016