"Student Loans" Protest
In the November
18th 1986 issue of Red
Rag:
Secretary of State for Education Ken Baker visits Bulmershe College
but doesn't care to meet with any of the students; said students then
arrange a protest against Tory education cuts and the proposed
introduction of a mixed grants/loan system which would leave them with
massive debts at the end of their courses; four students are picked
out of the crowd and arrested; and Reading's less objective papers
shout "non-student activists", "Anarchists" and "riot". Campaigns in
Reading and London demand justice in the cases of Gurdip Kaur and
Balwant Kaur, both murdered by their husbands; the 25th anniversary of
the Sandinistas is celebrated; why not to drive to an action in a
vehicle with a faulty tyre and no tax disk; and if Jim, Heather and
Shea P. - last heard of somewhere in Scotland - happen to be reading
this then George needs to contact you about the battle of the
beanfield.
