UK Border Farce It would be easy enough to see the farcical nature(Pertaining to or of the nature of a farce) of the new Tier 4 visa restrictions (those aimed at ‘adult’ students, a.k.a. international university students) as some kind of error or self-defeating bureaucratic fuck up. But, not unlike the management of call centres […]
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Regeneration, repression and dispossession: eviction from the entrepreneurial city
Regeneration projects In August of 2009 the Islington Tribune reported on a story that revealed with unusual clarity the logic at the core of recent ‘regeneration’ projects in the UK. Having already reneged on promises to expand transport services, provide green spaces and social housing to abut the newly built Arsenal Emirates stadium, Arsenal FC […]
Prisons are reproductive units: Notes From Court Monitoring
With many in our movements currently facing criminal trials and long custodial sentences, the role that the courts, legal system and prisons play is made clearer by the day, as is the need for solidarity with those inside. If you’ve been wondering what happened to the student movement of last Spring, the answer is that […]
DIY GUIDE No. 5 Power to the People: Auto-Reduction
Winter is almost here. Sadly, the days of coin-operated electric meters that allowed for knife and string tricks and replacing coins with foreign shrapnel are long gone. So, while 20,000 plus people freeze to death in the UK each year, we can either spend all our money on heating and starve to death, or kill […]
DIY GUIDE No. 4 VISA MARRIAGE GUIDE
UK Marriage Visa Marriage is sacred. Marriage is all about love matches. Oh, and money. Also politics, and property. And reproduction, don’t forget reproduction. And ideology. But mostly love. Here is a guide to making sure your lovely papers are in order. 0: Be rich (or start saving) This revenue-generating exercise will cost well in […]
A Day in Three Parts
NIC BEURET March 26th saw over half a million people take to the streets of London to protest against the latest regime of austerity, cuts and social reorganisation. This multitude of bodies had no one single (or simple) demand. Their dissent flowed through select channels on the day; three well worn acts of an old […]
Re:Generation
Free Associations to Generation This is an edited extract from Moments of Excess, a Free Association anthology published by PM Press. There’s a great clip on YouTube (http://tinyurl.com/lubwkq). A young man at a festival is performing a crazy freak-out, oblivious to anyone and anything apart from the music. After a while he’s joined by another […]
What’s a nice girl like you doing in a place like this?
ALICE SPENCER Part one: It’s a long way to the top I started working in a brothel called Top of The Town. I rang up the number listed in the directory, went in for an interview and I started the next day. I told management a fictional story about being a single mum, but gave […]
Precarious- Ness And The University
Strategy & Planning – University of Leeds As the cuts in higher education start to be felt, PhD students in the School of Geography, University of Leeds are making plans and getting organised. Hourly paid postgraduate teaching assistants at the School of Geography, University of Leeds, have been informed that that their wages are to […]
Dangerous Alliances: Class and the Student Movement
Federico Campagna – Student Movement Recently, I have been asked several times by Italian friends and comrades to talk about the British student movement. I must confess that their questions always made me feel slightly embarrassed. At first, I tried to forget about this uncomfortable feeling, talking about the rise of a new civic participation, […]