British students to hold fresh protests

[Joanne98]

Thousands of students of British schools will stage a national march on Wednesday in a further indication of a looming wave of social unrest over government's spending cuts.


The protests are expected to attract more than 16,000 schoolchildren and further education students include sit-ins, demonstrations and occupations in a show of rage over the coalition's plans to raise tuition fees and abolish the education maintenance allowance (EMA).

Last week some 52,000 university students took to the streets of London to warn the government to rethink its austerity drive in what appeared to be a flashback to the 1980's protests against Thatcherism.

Participants said in a statement the move was only the beginning of upcoming trouble for the government over its plans to cut the welfare budget, raise taxes, slash universities funding by 40 percent, and triple tuition fees.

"The great thing about what has happened over the last week is that this idea of protest has embedded itself in the wider student community," said Michael Chessum, the co-founder of the National Campaign Against Fees and Cuts (NCAFC) which has organized the next week protest.

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