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Matt Myers is a doctoral student at the University of Oxford. He was a participant in the 2010 student movement and is the author of Student Revolt (Pluto, 2017).

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Student Revolt

Student Revolt

Voices of the Austerity Generation

Matt Myers

A lively oral history of the British student protests of 2010, bringing together activists, students, politicians and workers
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2010 and the UK Student Movement Research Project

2010 was a year of occupations, kettling and Millbank. The election of the ConDem gvmt and their punishing education ‘reforms’ galvanised a generation of young people to fight for their future, but what remains of the movement today?

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The Repression of Student Movements in the UK

Walls of bullets, siege mentalities and subterranean warfare… From civil rights protests of the 1960s, to the 2010 student movement, what tactics have universities used to repress, delimit and co-opt the energy of student movements?

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Neoliberalism and Student Protest: A Study of the UK and Chile

Neoliberal politics were the trigger for the student movements in the UK and Chile, but following Jeremy Corbyn’s pledge to abolish tuition fees, we ask if the student movement could be the trigger for the end of austerity politics?

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10th November: 2010 Student Protests Photo Diary

On 10 November 2010, protesters gathered to oppose government plans to raise tuition fees, Ian MacDonald photographed the events, which reached its climax as protesters stormed campaign headquarters of the Conservative Party: Millbank Tower.

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Student Rebellions Past and Present

From early rancour in medieval Bologna, to worker-student coalitions in 1926, all the way to the storming of Millbank, Matt Myers, author of ‘Student Revolt’, records the history of student activism.

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24th November: 2010 Student Protests Photo Diary

In 2010, students took to the streets to protest against rising tuition fees and defy government cuts. Patrick O’Brien captured the occupations, ‘kettling’ and outbreaks of violence that comprised 2010’s student revolt.

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PODCAST: ‘Radicals in Conversation’ – Student Revolt

In this episode we talk to Matt Myers and Malia Bouattia about the 2010 student protests and how, seven years later, they continue to reverberate through UK politics.

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The Legacy of Millbank:
How the student revolt changed radical politics

Ten years on, Seth Wheeler looks at the legacy of the student protests of 2010, and how the students organised in and against the state.

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