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Feedback on Fight Back! For Fight Back! references, news, follow-ups, and to offer your own links, feedback, and suggestions for further reading on the protests, please visit the Fight Back! page, at http://opendemocracy.net/ ourkingdom/ourkingdom/fight-back.
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Contents
Contents NOTE FROM THE EDITOR ............................................................. 10 FOREWORD .................................................................................. 12 >7FJ;H !?=>J!EH/>;!KJKH;
Anthony Barnett, openDemocracy
OVERVIEWS ................................................................................. 30 >7FJ;H 4EKI7OOEKM7DJ7H;LEBKJ?ED
Laurie Penny and Rowenna Davies, openDemocracy
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Cailean Gallagher, Oxford Left Review
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Guy Aitchison and Aaron Peters
THE DEMONSTRATIONS ................................................................ 62 >7FJ;H $DI?:;J>;(?BB87DA/EM;HH?EJI
Laurie Penny, New Statesman
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Guy Aitchison, openDemocracy
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Sophie Burge, TheSite.org
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Paul Sagar, Bad Conscience
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Siraj Datoo, The Student Journals
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Oliver Huitson, openDemocracy
THE OCCUPATIONS .......................................................................96 >7FJ;H ;OED:/>;*99KF7J?ED
Oliver Wainwright, Building Design
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Joanna Biggs, London Review of Books
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Genevieve Dawson
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Asher Goldman, Libcom.org
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Owen Hatherley, openDemocracy
THE FLASH MOBS....................................................................... 124 >7FJ;H +HEJ;IJMEHAI %KIJBEEA7JJ>;FHEE<
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Alan Finlayson ,openDemocracy
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THE UNIVERSITIES ......................................................................138 >7FJ;H 0D?L;HI?J?;I?D7D7=;E<?D<EHC7J?ED78KD:7D9;
Aaron Peters, openDemocracy
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THE UNDER 19S .......................................................................... 176 >7FJ;H />;H;7BD7JKH;E<J>; ( :;87J;
Anthony Painter, Left Foot Forward
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Ryan Gallagher, openDemocracy
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Rory Rowan, Critical Legal Thinking
THE TRADE UNIONS ................................................................... 236 >7FJ;H 0D?EDI =;JI;J<EH87JJB;
Len McCluskey, The Guardian
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Keith Ewing, openDemocracy
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John Stuttle, openDemocracy
THE AESTHETICS ....................................................................... 246 >7FJ;H *Da+HEJ;IJb.?=DIJ>;.?=D?
Jesse Darling, Brave New What
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Dan Hancox
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Adam Harper, Rouges Foam
THE GENERATIONS ..................................................................... 278 >7FJ;H 2?BBJ>;Z/;DI[JHKCFJ>;Z.?NJ?;I[
Anthony Barnett, New Statesman
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Gerry Hassan, The Scotsman
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Nick Pearce, IPPR
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Laurie Penny, The Guardian
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Maeve McKeown, UCL Occupation Blog
AFTERWORDS ............................................................................. 304 >7FJ;H 2>OM;I>EKB:D[J9;DJH7B?I;J>;IJK:;DJCEL;C;DJFHEJ;IJ J79J?9I7D:M7OI<EHM7H:
Markus Malarkey, Ceasefire
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Guy Aitchison, openDemocracy
APPENDICES............................................................................... 320 >7FJ;H 7CF7?=DI7D:-;IEKH9;I
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Foreword: A Fight For The Future
Foreword: A Fight For The Future Anthony Barnett
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You say you want a revolution... Laurie Penny and Rowenna Davies, openDemocracy
How to believe in change? This exchange was published in July 2010 but it prefigures the energy and issues released by the protests that erupted in November and December, and expresses the frustrations that were building up well before the Conservative-Liberal Democrat government announced its plans for higher education.
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THE DEMONSTRATIONS After the publication of the Browne Report in October 2010, there was a surge of dissent and debate, in response to the radical changes to the British education system that lay ahead. To take part in the protest movement in November and December was to experience an intense, ever-evolving process that began with a traditional march, and ended with a siege of parliament itself. On 10 November, the first major demonstration against the Conservative-Lib Dem coalition proposals took place. Over 50,000 students and sympathetic parties took to the streets, and several hundred occupied the Conservative HQ at Millbank Tower in London, cheered on by thousands more. In the month that followed Millbank, a series of street demonstrations took place in the capital, supported by numerous other actions, protests and occupations across the country in opposition to the government's fees and cuts agenda. Each of the major protests was characterised by different tactics and effects – and widely identified by the Twitter hashtags protesters used to follow developments: #dayx, #dayx2, and #dayx3. The first, #dayx, was characterised by the iconoclastic storming and occupation of Millbank. The second, #dayx2, became known as ‘the cat-and-mouse protest’, because it saw separate tributaries of the main demonstration spontaneously split off to escape Police kettling, running miles through the London snow from Victoria to Bank, from the Barbican to Trafalgar Square.
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The third, #dayx3, took place on the day the House of Commons voted in favour of the rise in tuition fees: as the vote was passed, shortly after 5.30pm, thousands of protesters remained kettled directly outside in Parliament Square. The protesters variously danced, chanted, made new friends, clashed with Riot Police, and even tried to storm the Treasury building – later, over a thousand protesters were kettled on Westminster Bridge, in a situation so dangerous a doctor warned that a Hillsborough type disaster had been only narrowly averted. Each demonstration was different, in its tactics, and in the effect it produced. As Jonathan Moses writes in this section, “a British institution – the protest march – was undergoing a transformative moment”.
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