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Security threaten violence as students occupy second building
MANCHESTER students seized a second university building yesterday after a violent clampdown by campus security.
Dozens of students initiated a “secondary occupation” at the University of Manchester in solidarity with colleagues who had been brutally grabbed and threatened with punches to the face.
The original Free Education MCR sit-in started last Wednesday in protest over national austerity measures, for free education and in defence of workers’ rights.
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