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Jon Snow, on his own involvement in protests at Liverpool University 50 years ago
As Liverpool prepares for protest, Jon Snow writes of his own involvement in very similar actions there fifty years ago
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Government wins student tuition fees vote as protests grow
As the Government wins a vote to treble university tuition fees, violence flares across Whitehall. Alex Thomson says that nine police officers and scores of protesters are hurt.
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Nick Clegg’s bid to quell student fees protests
Deputy Prime Minister says the government’s system of tuition fees is more fair than a graduate tax. Is he right?
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Angry protests over safety of women in India
The father of a trainee doctor whose rape and murder at a state-run hospital has rocked India, says he is determined to get justice for his only child.
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More than 114 killed as mass protests sweep Bangladesh
Internet and mobile services have been blocked since Thursday as the authorities seek to quell the unrest.
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Economist Joseph Stiglitz on Pro-Palestine campus protests, Trump and rethinking freedom
Economist Joseph Stiglitz tells Krishnan Guru-Murthy why more government intervention is desirable, whether campus protests in the US are going “over the line” and why stalling living standards “create a fertile field” for demagogues like Donald Trump, in this episode of Ways to Change the World.
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How are campus protests affecting US politics?
The ongoing protests against the war in Gaza that have been galvanising students at colleges across the USA.
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Israel Gaza war protests sweep US campuses
The impact of events on the Middle East is being felt on university campuses across the world.
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Iran protests: mass public trials and others sentenced to death
Iran’s six weeks of protest show no sign of ending despite an ultimatum delivered by the regime at the weekend and ever-harsher crackdowns from the authorities.
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Pro-democracy protesters clash with police over the killing of a student in Eswatini
A curfew has been imposed in Eswatini, after days of violent clashes between security forces and pro-democracy protesters, leaving dozens of people dead and injured.
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Hong Kong protest: Evidence of intimidation and threats against students in UK
Students have played a key part in this year’s pro-democracy protests in Hong Kong. Here in the UK, universities have seen students holding demonstrations of solidarity. But with more than 100,000 Chinese students studying at British campuses, this programme has found worrying evidence of intimidation and threats to students who won’t tow the Communist Party’s…
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Student seeking justice after being “thrashed with a police baton” by an officer in 2010
Nine years ago when student Alfie Meadows was, in his words, “thrashed with a police baton” – during the 2010 Westminster student protests against tuition fees – he was “nearly killed and lucky to survive.”
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Hong Kong students and police clash on decimated university campus
Around a hundred exhausted, bedraggled young men and women are hunkered down in Hong Kong’s Polytechnic University, the scene of pitched battles between police and activists.
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Hong Kong in recession after months of anti-China protests
Hong Kong has entered its first recession for a decade after months of anti-China protests and violent clashes. A 70-year-old man has died after being hit by a brick allegedly thrown by protesters. The police say they are treating it as murder. Student activists have barricaded themselves into university campuses and shut down major roads,…
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Hong Kong protests: Inside the university campuses becoming makeshift fortresses
The Hong Kong police say protesters are moving one step closer to terrorism – as violent clashes on major university campuses continue.
