STUDENT leaders were slammed yesterday for prioritising “going to gala dinners” over supporting striking lecturers.
Opening the National Union of Students (NUS) conference yesterday, the organisation’s president Shakira Martin vowed to “make student poverty history.”
But leftwingers said Ms Martin had failed to offer “meaningful support” to university staff on their strike over pension cuts.
From hunting rare pamphlets at book sales to online panels and courses on trade unionism and class politics, the MML continues connecting archive treasures with the movements fighting for a better world, writes director MEIRIAN JUMP
Almost half of universities face deficits, merger mania is taking hold, and massive fee hikes that will lock out working-class students are on the horizon, write RUBEN BRETT, PAUL WHITEHOUSE and DAN GRACE



