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movement. The United Kingdom hasnt seen this type of large protest movement for many years. The antiwar demos, mass walkouts of the early 2000s and the university occupations against Israels invasion of Gaza, normalized these tactics for the current generation of students. The abolition of EMA brought on tens of thousands of outraged Secondary (age 14-16), Sixth Form (age 16-18) and Further Education (FE) (age 16+) students into the fight. .
The student movement inspired millions of workers around the country. There is a real fear by the political elite that the militancy of the student movement is being picked up by workers. Occupations took place in over 55 cities against corporate tax dodgers. Students have been highlighting the reality that these cuts are ideological. .
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Police and protesters fought in the streets of Barcelona in late February, 2012, as more than 30,000 people joined students in demonstrations against cuts in education spending. Fires were lit in the streets, cars burned and bank windows smashed with missiles as the protests turned violent. At least one bank was broken into and police fired rubber bullets as roads in the city were blocked. .
Baton-wielding riot police made several charges, pushing hundreds of demonstrators back into the main buildings of the University of Barcelona, not far from the central Plaça de Catalunya. A small group of peaceful demonstrators marched on the Mobile World Congress a major international telecoms trade fair being held at the city's exhibition centre, blocking a nearby main road. More peaceful demonstrations were held in several Spanish cities, with students and schoolchildren to the fore. .
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Philippines, Tunisia, France, Ireland, Netherlands
.Youth protests demand education for all, not just for the rich .
Students and faculty across the Philippines strike. In Manila, they storm the Finance Department. .
More thousands of students swarmed the streets of Rome, chanting and straining against riot police who blocked the way to Parliament. They lit police vehicles on fire, sending black smoke into the sky. Tunisian students and unemployed graduates demonstrated for weeks until ending the presidents 23-year rule! In Dublin, 40,000 students marched and occupied the Department of Finance to fight the doubling of tuition fees. In the Netherlands, 1,500 demonstrated against cuts to student funding and fee increases. Greek youth seized university buildings across the country and joined general strikes and mass marches against austerity measures. Italian student militants occupied universities around their nation as well, angrily fighting mass layoffs in public education and attempts to privatize parts of the university system. Puerto Rican students mounted a second island-wide student strike within eight months to fight off privatization schemes and fee increases. In Sudan, they fought cuts in subsidies for commodities. .
These scenes are just part of a world-wide resistance to stringent cut-backs in education and living standards. The response of politicians to budget shortages and price increases caused by the economic crisis is to cut public sector budgets, eliminate social services and student financial aid, and raise university fees. Schools are being privatized or closed, teachers and staff laid off. But governments hoping to dump the burden on a passive young population have instead faced fierce struggles. Young people are stepping into the lead, determined to take their future into .
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RESEARCH PANEL: Cultural change: Telling stories, shaping identity and normalizing precarity
(Photo: Mary Kang)
Hundreds rally in Philadelphia under the theme of "Reject normalization, Honor the martyrs, Uplift resistance" on Oct 7, 2025.
Protesters started the march at arms-supplier-to-"Israel" Day & Zimmermann at 15th & Spring Garden. As some activists held up signs in English, Spanish, Arabic and Chinese, they marched through Chinatown chanting in Chinese "Free, Free Palestine". They stopped at the ICE Office on 8th Street for a rally against detaining migrant workers and deportations. The march ended with a final rally at the Weitzman National Museum of American Jewish History, whose pro-genocide Executive Director Dan Tadmor says: "We are a proudly Jewish and proudly zionist institution."