Greek students demand free education
BY SOFIE BUCKLAND, NUS NEC (PERSONAL CAPACITY) At this year's NUS conference, despite the left's invocation of the militant student struggles in France, the right-wing of the union succeeded in overturning NUS's policy on education funding and introduced a policy in favour of means-tested grants. In contrast to the British student movement's failure to understand the lessons of the anti-CPE struggle, Greek students spent May and June fighting against the privatisation of their education. When the Greek student assembly declared "we're going to do what they did in France", they meant it. This...