It's fucking kicking off now lads!

[Lozzer]

The lecturers' union president has signed a statement refusing to condemn protestors who attacked a Conservative party building last week.

Alan Whitaker has joined calls to "rally behind all who were arrested for fighting to defend their education".

Backing "acts of resistance", the statement has been signed by 24 members of the University and College Union's national executive.

A radical students' group has also threatened to target Lib Dem offices.

But the UCU union's official spokesman rejected the violence as "totally unacceptable".

The UCU spokesman said the statement supporting the arrested students had been signed in a personal capacity by lecturers and was not the union's official policy.

'Victimisation'
But the scale of support among the union's leadership for this latest statement suggests deep divisions in the response to the outbreak of violence, during a protest march against raising tuition fees.

There are also divisions among student protestors, with student activists set to reject the more moderate strategy of the NUS leadership.

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'No to Victimisations' statement from lecturers
The Education Activist Network has warned that the Liberal Democrat headquarters will be targeted in the next wave of protests, set for 24 November.

Alan Whitaker, national president of the UCU, has joined about a third of the union's national executive, in calling on university and college staff to "stand with those students who were arrested".

"We will not side with those who condemn the violence against windows and property but will not condemn or even name the long-term violence of cuts that will scar the lives of hundreds of thousands by denying them access to the education of their choice," says the statement.

"The victimisation of individuals for acts of resistance is something that our movement has a proud record of opposing," says the statement.

Arrests
There have been more than 50 arrests following the storming of the building.

And there was widespread criticism, including from Downing Street, of lecturers who had appeared to be sympathetic to the occupation of the Millbank building.

But the spokesman for the latest lecturers' statement, Tom Hickey, says it is "pure hypocrisy" for lecturers to be expected to either condemn or condone the occupation last week.

He says demonstrators were provoked by the government's decision to "privatise" higher education, without any mandate from voters.

Mr Hickey, who lectures at the University of Brighton, says he expects the lecturers' union to back a campaign for the defence of those who were arrested during the demonstration.

[james1v]

These students need to get a fucking job!


Oh, hang on......

[Rum]

Welcome to the 60s.

[Lozzer]

Welcome to the 60s.

I'm playing my part now, it's invigorating! I'm trying to organise a mass college walk out for the 24th in collaboration with other national walkouts and strikes.


We're doing this for ourselves, we're doing this for everyone.

[Rum]

Welcome to the 60s.

Welcome to the 60s.

I'm playing my part now, it's invigorating! I'm trying to organise a mass college walk out for the 24th in collaboration with other national walkouts and strikes.


We're doing this for ourselves, we're doing this for everyone.

Lozz - I know we take the piss a lot here, but this is good! Good luck and well done. All power to you in fact.

[Feck]

Welcome to the 60s.

Welcome to the 60s.

I'm playing my part now, it's invigorating! I'm trying to organise a mass college walk out for the 24th in collaboration with other national walkouts and strikes.


We're doing this for ourselves, we're doing this for everyone.

but don't get involved in any rioting Lozzer

[Millefleur]

We're doing this for ourselves, we're doing this for everyone.

Slogan?

[Lozzer]

Welcome to the 60s.

Welcome to the 60s.

I'm playing my part now, it's invigorating! I'm trying to organise a mass college walk out for the 24th in collaboration with other national walkouts and strikes.


We're doing this for ourselves, we're doing this for everyone.

Lozz - I know we take the piss a lot here, but this is good! Good luck and well done. All power to you in fact.

Cheers, pal It's a generational responsibility, and one bestowed upon us by students past, present and future Viva La Education, and Viva La Ratz!

[Robert_S]

Welcome to the 60s.

I'm playing my part now, it's invigorating! I'm trying to organise a mass college walk out for the 24th in collaboration with other national walkouts and strikes.


We're doing this for ourselves, we're doing this for everyone.

Edit: This is post #666666!!!

May it bring you the luck of Lucifer in your noble endeavors!!!

[Xamonas Chegwé]

Hang on. I thought you were a Liberal Democrat - part of the coalition that is bringing in these changes? Aren't you protesting against yourself? Or is that all so last week now?

Or could it be that you have learnt something beyond narrow, party politics - that ALL politicians act to further their own ends and maintain their own position once given power. The only true idealists are those that will never get their hands on the reins - and only for as long as those reins seem ungraspable. "Don't follow leaders, watch the parking meters!"

[Lozzer]

Hang on. I thought you were a Liberal Democrat - part of the coalition that is bringing in these changes? Aren't you protesting against yourself? Or is that all so last week now?

Or could it be that you have learnt something beyond narrow, party politics - that ALL politicians act to further their own ends and maintain their own position once given power. The only true idealists are those that will never get their hands on the reins - and only for as long as those reins seem ungraspable. "Don't follow leaders, watch the parking meters!"

Yes, except my position was exposed to enlightenment on what exactly these cuts will result in; needless to say, the betrayal of the Intuition Fees pledge is the straw which broke the camel's back!

Welcome to the 60s.

Welcome to the 60s.

I'm playing my part now, it's invigorating! I'm trying to organise a mass college walk out for the 24th in collaboration with other national walkouts and strikes.


We're doing this for ourselves, we're doing this for everyone.

but don't get involved in any rioting Lozzer

Don't worry, I wont I'm a nice boy and my daddy is a fed!

[Deep Sea Isopod]

We're doing this for ourselves, we're doing this for everyone.

And we're all in this together!
(That'll make a catchy slogan, too. )

Go Lozzer!!!!!

[devogue]

A present for Lozzer....

[Gawdzilla Sama]

Welcome to the 60s.

Welcome to the 60s.

I'm playing my part now, it's invigorating! I'm trying to organise a mass college walk out for the 24th in collaboration with other national walkouts and strikes.


We're doing this for ourselves, we're doing this for everyone.

Lozz - I know we take the piss a lot here, but this is good! Good luck and well done. All power to you in fact.

I just pictured Lozzer as your first gay PM.

[devogue]

First? Tony Blair is as gay as a daffodil.