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Student Protests

8 articles, sorted by name / date

Beyond Edinburgh »

- Students at Uppsala University in Sweden had the opportunity to listen to the Israeli ambassador to Sweden, Benny Dagan, at a talk held on 24 February. The controversial speaker was there by invitation from the Foreign Politics Society, and emotions...

Wed 09 Mar 2011 by Amanda Svensson Falk | Read more »

Tahrir Tweeting: A revolutionary force? »

On the 6 June 2010, Khaled Said was dragged from an internet cafe in Alexandria and beaten to death by Egyptian police. An anonymous Facebook group was set up to spread the news of Said's murder and was ‘liked’ by nearly 600,000 people. Man...

Wed 23 Feb 2011 by Kate Beioley | Read more »

The glib ambassador »

Protesters crowding the stage

Much of the rhetoric used by both sides of the Ishmael Khaldi affair at the University of Edinburgh last week - first at the protest and then in the slew of statements and comments which followed - has been imbued with no uncertain amount of hyperbole....

Wed 09 Feb 2011 | Read more »

Student protester jailed for 32 months »

Hampshire student Edward Woollard, 18, has been jailed for 32 months after being convicted of violent disorder during student protests in London on 10 November. Mr Woollard confessed to throwing a fire extinguisher off the seventh floor of the Conserv...

Wed 26 Jan 2011 by Polly Dallyn | Read more »

Anarchy in the UK »

The Sunday Telegraph recently ran a story 'exposing' one of the organisers of the Autonomous Students' Network, who were present at the student protests in London recently. Although he has done nothing illegal, the paper felt the need to investigate hi...

Wed 24 Nov 2010 by Charlie Goodwin | Read more »

Children of the Revolution or Enfants Terribles? »

In a fortnight in which Britain agreed to join forces with France in the arena of defence policy, it seems poignant that our students should protest in a manner bearing echoes of May 1968. It was these protests, and the accompanying riot at Conservativ...

Wed 24 Nov 2010 by Alexa Caldecott | Read more »

Childish behaviour at Millbank »

It made for beautiful television. The sight of dozens of enraged students venting their frustrations - at rising tuition fees and at harsh education cuts - on the fixtures and fittings at Conservative Campaign Headquarters had both a practical and a sy...

Wed 24 Nov 2010 by Editorial | Read more »

The catacombs of Paris »

Parisian Catacombs

This May marks the 40th anniversary of the radical student riots of 1968, when thousands of students backed by ethnic minorities rebelled in a series of anti-government protests worldwide. Whilst student movements led to varying degrees of politic...

Thu 24 Apr 2008 by Demian Hobby | Read more »

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