So, the NUS has a new constitution. After years of arguments, the structure of our national union has changed for the first time since the 1970s. In a room full of nearly 1000 student activists, nothing is ever dull. Even a discussion about organisatio...
Wed 28 Jan 2009 by Adam Ramsay | Read more »
For many of today’s young people, the student activism of the 1960s is a nebulous concept. Knowledge of that era has dwindled to a collection of disconnected images and soundbytes, mostly relating to popular culture and drug-taking; our understan...
Tue 09 Dec 2008 | Read more »
Even London was considered a sideshow to Paris’ cobblestone throwing conduct of 1968. Mick Jagger summed it up lyrically in a song the same year, “In sleepy London town there’s just no place for a street fighting man.” Edinburg...
Tue 09 Dec 2008 by Guy Robertson | Read more »
