"International Student Movement"

“I am totally depressed as I believe a huge amount of work has been totally undone … support structures to assist the most vulnerable have been undermined, which will mean that discipline and pastoral care structures will be affected”
- Principal, boys’ secondary school, Leinster

Free Education for Everyone (FEE), a
student group fighting the reintroduction of fees and cutbacks in third
level education, is calling on all secondary and third level students
to join the ICTU National Demonstration this saturday to show
solidarity with all workers facing pension levys, job losses and pay
cuts.

The Irish Congress of Trade
Unions (ICTU), the umberalla group of 55 unions representing about
600,000 members in the Republic of Ireland, has called the February

Bertie Ahern (ex-Taoiseach - ie Prime Minister)was due to speak at the Literary and Debating society of NUI Galway tonight. The event was cancelled due to student protest and scuffles with the Gardaí.

Over 20 students from UCD have occupied the office of Paul Gogarty Green Party TD for Dublin Mid-West and Spokesperson on Education in Lucan Village. This is in protest at the increase in college registration fees to €1500 per year and the possible full re-introduction of fees.

This essay first appeared on indymedia.ie.