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Student leaders in Northern Ireland cited the wider protests across the UK as one reason for their success. [88] As of 2020, this has saved Northern Ireland university students £1 billion in tuition fees compared to English students. [89] In November 2012, two years after the 2010 demonstrations, protests ignited again from the student movement.
On 6 March, UK Uncut arranged to hold a protest in Taunton against government cuts. [33] UK Uncut held protests in the London Borough of Tower Hamlets on 7 March, mainly around the Barclay's Bank headquarters in Canary Wharf. During the protest, a group of around a dozen people gathered in front of a sculpture in the bank lobby, and chanted ...
The organisation played a role in the 2010 UK student protests, calling several days of action following the National Union of Students organised demonstration on 10 November. [5] It was estimated that up to 130,000 students took part in the 24 November 2010 day of action across the UK. [ 6 ]
2010 UK student protests, a series of demonstrations opposing planned spending cuts to further education and an increase of the cap on tuition fees in England 2010 student protest in Dublin , a demonstration opposing a proposed increase in university registration fees, further cuts to the student maintenance grant and increasing graduate ...
24 November – A second protest in London sees thousands of students demonstrate. Trouble flares in Whitehall, resulting in 17 people being injured and 32 people are arrested. Unrest also spreads into cities including Brighton, Manchester, Oxford, Cambridge and Sheffield, with street protests and university building sit-in protests taking ...
A new book by former L.A. Times correspondent Vincent Bevins takes a close look at the 2010s, a decade of mass protest — and why they mostly failed.
Protesting against George W. Bush in 2008. This is a list of protests and protest movements in the United Kingdom.Protest in the UK has concerned issues such as suffrage in the 19th and early 20th centuries, parliamentary reform from the Chartists to the present day, poverty, wages and working conditions, fuel prices, war, human rights, immigration (both for and against), fathers' rights ...
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