The National Campaign Against Fees and Cuts (NCAFC) or Student Left Network is a membership-based organisation of activist students and education workers campaigning against

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, education cuts and

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in the

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.What is the National Campaign Against Fees and Cuts?
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History

National student campaigns for free education in the UK have always existed; the first organised group was the Campaign for Free Education (CFE), founded in 1995 in opposition to proposals by

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for the

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to abandon its opposition to the abolition of student grants. CFE was disbanded in 2004 by NUS President

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, and took a year re-emerge as Education Not For Sale which was founded by left wing anti capitalist students. In 2009 ENS jointly organised (with

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and

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) the first student demonstration for free education in 5 years but with low turnout and a proposal in 2010 by UCL Free Education Society to establish NCAFC, ENS was folded into a newly established the National Campaign Against Fees and Cuts (NCAFC). The organisation was founded at a convention at

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in February 2010 on a platform of campaigning for "free, fair and funded public education for all", paid for through the taxation of the rich and big business. NCAFC also has semi-autonomous campaigns in Scotland and Wales. The organisation played a role in the 2010 UK student protests, calling several days of action following the National Union of Students organised demonstration on 10 November.Politics as usual has failed. Students must take direct action

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, 22 November 2010. It was estimated that up to 130,000 students took part in the 24 November 2010 day of action across the UK.Student protests: school's out across the UK as children take to the streets

, 24 November 2010. The organisation also undertakes research into education funding.Vice Chancellor high pay report - anticuts.com
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, 19 April 2012Top universities 'doubled pay for senior staff'
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, 20 April 2012

2010 UK student protests

In 2011 NCAFC organised a march through central

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, supported by the National Union of Students and the

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, in opposition to the government's Higher Education White Paper. As many as 15,000 students took part, with the

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pre-authorising the use of plastic bullets in the light of the violence after the previous year's protest against student fees.

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History

2010 UK student protests

Rebrand

Affiliated organisations

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