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STUDENTS created havoc across central London yesterday as they blocked roads and shut down buildings in protest against £500,000 worth of cuts at the capital’s most prestigious arts university.
After a few failed attempts, University of the Arts London (UAL) free education campaigners succeeded in taking over the London College of Communication (LCC), making it their second occupied campus.
Kings College London has also gone into occupation following the example of the neighbouring London School of Economics — now in its eighth day of a sit-in.
Cuts are sweeping campuses as cash-strapped universities slash staff and politicians fail to act on a growing funding emergency. VINCE MILLS reports
The creative imagination is a weapon against barbarism, writes KENNY COYLE, who is a keynote speaker at the Manifesto Press conference, Art in the Age of Degenerative Capitalism, tomorrow at the Marx Memorial Library & Workers School in London
In the second part of a two-part article, CONOR BOLLINS asks why the government’s ambition when it comes to the military is not applied to sectors where it could do real good