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Students planning wave of protests over cost-of-living
People protest outside the Ofgem HQ in Canary Wharf London.

STUDENTS are planning a wave of occupations, fee strikes, demonstrations and solidarity pickets with strikers in protest at the cost-of-living crisis.

The Students Cost-of-Living Campaign, a group of former rent and fee strike organisers and other activists on campuses across England, Wales and Scotland, will stand with lecturers, nurses, rail and postal workers and civil servants taking strike action.

Organisers said that while students won millions of pounds back in 2020-21 through rent strike campaigns, there is once again a feeling of crisis as students find themselves among those facing the choice between heating and eating.

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