


Belarusian students forced to flee as activists tortured, imprisoned
After students led the anti-Lukashenko protests of summer 2020, a wave of repression has since followed.

La Trobe defunds student union in favour of ‘apolitical’ corporate body
The LTSU was forced to make all 22 of its staff redundant after La Trobe cuts its SSAF funding by 88% in favour of a new ‘apolitical’ organisation.

In eSwatini, student unions lead fight for rights
Students unionists face expulsion from university, imprisonment, terror charges and torture.

Responding to crisis and the future of university organising
Situating the crisis within Australian universities and analysing our responses to it.


Issue Nine Editorial: Do Not Go Gentle
It takes a special kind of thick myopia to think that we are not invested in student politics. Universities are places less and less accommodating of unions. As the sheer pressure of getting by grows, more students are taking ruthlessly pragmatic degrees and second jobs just to justify the rigmarole of tertiary education. The reality is…