University College London
by James Ivens
Students at UCL have gone into occupation demanding an end to the institution’s support for the Israeli state onslaught on Palestine.
The tent encampment follows an earlier room occupation. UCL management has responded by having security close the campus to the public.
A solidarity protest on Friday 3 May attracted around a hundred across both sides of the gates at short notice. Supporters outside were open to discussing socialist ideas to end the war, with one telling me he had voted for the Trade Unionist and Socialist Coalition (TUSC) in the London elections the day before.
To defend and extend protest actions like the UCL occupation, students need their own democratic campaign organisations that can draw together the various strands of student struggle and link up with campus trade unions. Join Socialist Students to help us build that!
Socialist Students says:
- Stop the Gaza slaughter – for the permanent withdrawal of the Israeli military from the occupied territories
- Solidarity with students occupying universities across the US. Stop arming Israeli state terror!
- Defend the right to protest on campus. Student unions must lead campaigns to defend any students victimised for protesting against war and oppression
- Kick out the Tories! But Starmer’s Labour is no alternative. Help us build a new workers’ party with socialist policies to end war, austerity and capitalism
- For a socialist Middle East and world!