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Download a copy: The Paper: Edition Minus One We’ve felt it in the streets, in occupations, in walkouts, teach-ins and at Top Shop. In the assemblies, conferences and meetings – every time we get together we discover that it’s broader than we thought. We are in the midst of the most exciting student movement in Britain […]
February 4, 2011
In this edition of The Paper we ask ourselves: what are the lessons and what is to be learned from making a collective newspaper? As many of us have experienced in these last months, the classroom is only one of many sites of learning. Education does not only happen in places zoned for it but […]
February 4, 2011
Various letters The Paper received and discussions that people started in response to the call for a first editorial meeting. _______ The Paper is an interesting idea, but not without problems in my view. What is the basis for this paper, for example? Has it come out of a defined group or movement, like being agreed […]
February 4, 2011
SASKIA FISCHER There are many ways to read and feel the kettle. The thing is to climb out of it. Slippery as its walls may be, find a grip, crack a hole, let the rage pour out and the rest of you with it. Make that rage a thing you can examine, learn from. Lest […]
February 4, 2011
SOFIE BUCKLAND On January 11 Paul McKeever, chair of the Police Federation, publicly hinted that police forces may demonstrate over job cuts. Due to the same budget cuts the Coalition government is pushing across public services, as many as 20,000 police force jobs are under threat. This has prompted an extensive internet debate between various […]
February 4, 2011
NIC BEURET A single image from a day of movement marks out competing visions of hope. A boot through a Millbank window fed the dreams of resistance that many in the Left have been craving since talk of austerity started. The same boot posed a question that plays out in the university occupations that […]
February 3, 2011
Translation is a practice. And as with every practice, there are politics in translation. The translation of the powerful reduces every experience from another context into a sentence coherent in a closed logic of language and singularly located experience. Our translation rails against this and looks for something different. It is about creating bridges, producing […]
February 3, 2011
Edu-factory Speed Dating for Student Movements, Paris, 11 – 13 February. The list is too long and there is no end in sight. Eruptions of protests surrounding education have definitively affirmed themselves as one of the most potent opponents of contemporary crisis economics in Europe and beyond. Student movements have become the most incisive and […]
February 3, 2011
Το ’χουμε αισθανθεί στους δρόμους, σε καταλήψεις, σε πορείες και στο Top Shop. Σε συνελεύσεις, συνέδρια και συναντήσεις – κάθε φορά που βρισκόμαστε ανακαλύπτουμε ότι είναι ευρύτερο απ’ όσο πιστεύαμε. Βρισκόμαστε στο μέσο των πιο συναρπαστικών φοιτητικών κινητοποιήσεων στη Βρετανία εδώ και δεκαετίες. Τους τελευταίους μήνες υπάρχει μια ενθουσιώδης έκρηξη οργάνωσης και δημιουργικότητας ενάντια στα […]
February 3, 2011
Students and academics resist IGU conference in Military School, Chile What would you do if you were told that the next inaugural lecture of your University is going to be in a Military School? What if the history of that Military School was closely tied to the murder and disappearance of thousands of people? Translate […]
February 3, 2011
RACHEL DRUMMOND For those of us who work in Further Education, cuts are nothing new. In September, 2009 I took part in indefinite strike action by lecturers at Tower Hamlet’s College. That sunny strike seems a long, long time ago now in this dark winter, but we need to keep re-remembering and re-learning what we […]
February 3, 2011
BUE RUBNER HANSEN Almost three months after Millbank it seems clear that something significant happened on the 10th November 2010. For all involved it seems there is a before and after Millbank, it marks a break that sparked off something that we are still living. The previously quiescent university has been turned into a focal […]
February 3, 2011
ANYONE The recent struggles for free education have empowered ‘ordinary’ people to feel as if their actions might count for something. But they have also seen the emergence of a new host of celebrity activists basking in new found media attention. Mainstream UK campaigns and currents could take a leaf out of the playbooks of […]
February 3, 2011
Elise and Celestin Freinet were communist educators active in France from the 1920s. Under the name Ecole Moderne, they and hundreds of students and educators across Europe produced a network of schools, each of which collectively owned and operated its own printing press. Students and teachers responded to the issues of their world through the […]
February 3, 2011
EDDIE MOLLOY The past few months have witnessed the mass arrest of hundreds of students protesting the most recent and potentially fatal government onslaught on higher education. Arrest as means to inhibit public protest through victimisation has been coupled with mass detention without trial, charge or legal basis in a practice that is euphemistically known […]
February 3, 2011
DR YOJO QUEEQUEG Rather than focusing on acts of violence carried out by police, rather than peering at Westminster through lines of state control, we must recognise and reiterate our own responsibility for the violence that has taken place over the last few months. The idea that we are victims of the state must be overcome; we […]
February 2, 2011
The first in a regular series of DIY, how to guides and practical step by step instructions for making trouble and influencing people. The first in our series caused quite a stir the first time if was printed in 1995 by a student newspaper in Australia. Handy if you want a duck house for your […]
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