We have occupied the top floor of Bramber House, University of Sussex, Brighton. There are 106 of us.

The decision to occupy has been taken after weeks of concerted campaigning during which the university management have repeatedly failed to take away the threat of compulsory redundancies and course cuts.

We recognise that an attack on education workers is an attack on us.

The room we have occupied is not a lecture theatre but a conference centre. As such, we are not disrupting the education of our fellow students; rather, we are disrupting a key part of management’s strategy to run the university as a profitable business.

They’re occupying everywhere in waves across California, New York, Greece, Croatia, Germany and Austria and elsewhere – and not only in the universities. We send greetings of solidarity and cheerful grins to all those occupation movements and everyone else fighting the pay cuts, cuts in services and jobs which will multiply everywhere as bosses and states try and pull out of the crisis.

But we are the crisis.

The Union of Polish Syndicalists (Zwiazek Syndykalistow Polski - ZSP) member of International Workers Association decided to support this struggle and edit an informing bulletin about it in a context of theglobal campaign for free and emancipating education, which will be infree distribution at the University of Wroclaw and other schools in Poland.

We ask you to send us some articles about situation in the educational sector in your countries and about a struggles performed there (in English please, but if there is no such possibility we can try to translate it also from Russian, French, German and Spanish). Please remember that majority of PhD students in Poland haven't even heardabout the International Students Movement and about the actions abroad,so try to start from the very beginning of movement in your country anddon't forget about background. We will translate your article to polishand put it in our bulletin together with news and articles aboutsituation in Poland. We also will translate our articles about Poland toEnglish and send it back to you, so you will may use it according to thecopyleft license. We are in a hurry a little bit, so we are waiting foryour texts till 12th February. Please don't write more than 1 500 words (short forms are welcomed).

This morning at 7:05 a group of students occupied the main building ofthe University of Utrecht. The students are protesting against theuniversity's board decision to stop publishing the paper version of theUniversity Newspaper. The action is the first of a series of nationalinitiatives to stop budget cuts in education.

Communiqué: University of Utrecht, the Board of Directors building, February 1st 2010

The Board of Directors crossed the line this time, and this isunacceptable! Despite all efforts to save the paper version of the Ublad(the University newspaper) with the support of thousands of students,professors and the complete U-raad (Council of representatives of the University community), they continue to impose their controversialpolicies. In the meantime, the quality of our education is at risk andour student grants are about to be cut. This is why we, the occupiers ofthe building of the Board of Directors at the University of Utrecht,feel obliged to take action and take a stand in favor of an independent,paper version of the Ublad, for the democratization of our Universitygovernment, and against the cuts on our education imposed by the Dutchgovernment.

On Thursday of last week, over 100 students, workers, local alternative high school students, teachers, and staff came out in the first action called by the UW Student/Worker Coalition.

The day started with over 35 people protesting an abusive manager at her office.  This action came a little over a week after Democracy Insurgent called a solidarity protest against Andre Vasquez.  Workers in International Workers and Students for Justice were inspired, and took up this protest as the leaders, speaking out into the bullhorn against abusive managers.  This is a huge step, considering the enormous amount of repression and abuse faced by workers who have been organizing for their rights.  Following this confrontation, many of the workers marched with students, staff and community members to confront the board of regents.  About 50 students and workers went to confront them on the barricaded 22 floor of the UW tower, a militarized space, while others stayed downstairs and chanted and read demands outloud, bringing support from employees at UW tower.  Some of the chants included "Enough with the Ivory Tower, we fight back with Student/Worker power!" and a tip of the hat to UC schools with "No Cuts, No Fees, education must be free!  See video of both actions, and other actions called by workers and students at youtube.com/dinsurg.  Check out posters and flyers at nobudgetcutsuw.com.