Socialist Students is a socialist organisation with branches in universities, further education colleges and sixth form colleges in the United Kingdom.. Socialist Students was established in the late 1990s by members of the Socialist Party (SP) who had built support for the Save Free Education Campaign amongst students in the battle over the introduction of fees when the Labour Party under Tony Blair was elected in 1997.
Socialist Students describes itself as a politically independent organisation, and has its own national committee meetings and annual conference at which motions are debated and voted on. Socialist Students produces the political magazine The Student Socialist twice a year, in September and in February. It is affiliated with International Socialist Resistance and takes part in campaigns such as Youth Fight for Jobs and "Hands off our Schools" against city academies. The two organisations have a joint presence on anti-war and anti-G8/climate change demonstrations, which they term the "Red Contingent".
Socialist Students also has international links through being affiliated to ISR with groups in countries such as Sweden, Pakistan and Germany as well as links with groups such as Socialist Youth in Ireland, Active Left Students and Blokbusters in Belgium, Youth Against War and Racism in the USA and the Socialist Student Movement in Nigeria.
Read more about Socialist Students: Political Programme, Recent Growth, Campaign To Defeat Fees
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