Education rights protest in Milwaukee, WI. (Fight Back! News/Staff)
The following is from Fight Back! News:
Interview with FRSO student leader on the campus movement and October 7 protests
States more students are becoming revolutionaries and communists
Fight Back! interviewed Kas Schwerdtfeger, a co-chair of the Freedom Road Socialist Organization student commission.
Fight Back!: What are the big issues on campus this fall? Where is the student movement at right now?
Kas Schwerdtfeger: Like last year, students are facing the effects of budget cuts on their campuses – from fee and tuition hikes to cuts in services. Most schools have only been in session for a few weeks, but already we are seeing students protest at the University of New Orleans over budget cuts, ending in a occupation of the chancellor’s office and confrontations with police. On some campuses the mood may be simmering resentment, on others, outrage, but students across the country are realizing that each semester brings more cuts, making education more and more expensive, inaccessible, and of less and less quality.
