[ecrea] New book: Springtime - The New Student Rebellions edited by Clare Solomon and Tania Palmieri

SPRINGTIME
The New Student Rebellions

Edited by CLARE SOLOMON AND TANIA PALMIERI

PUBLISHED: 28 MARCH 2011, UK; September 2011, US

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All proceeds will go to PalestineConnect, a small grassroots charity 
that operates community-led centres in the Gaza Strip. 
http://www.palestineconnect.org

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Dates for your diary:

26 March 2011 – ‘March for the Alternative’ anti-cuts demonstration: 
http://www.versobooks.com/events/125-march-for-the-alternative

And a launch party at the University of London Union – date and details 
coming soon.

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The autumn and winter of 2010 saw an unprecedented wave of student 
protests across the UK in response to the coalition government's savage 
cuts in state funding for higher education, cuts which formed the basis 
for an ideological attack on the nature of education itself. 
Middle-class students, teenagers from diverse backgrounds and older 
activists took part in marches, teach-ins and occupations, and also 
creative new forms: flashmobs, YouTube dance-offs, and the literal 
literary resistance of colourful book blocs.

The protests spread with wildfire speed, mainly organised through the 
unprecedented use of social media such as facebook and twitter. 
Web-savvy, media-literate students developed Sukey, the anti-kettling 
phone app, publicise their demands through online and traditional media 
outlets and continue to build ever-denser international networks of 
solidarity.

The winter of discontent now gives rise to the new spirit of rebellion 
this spring with a broader, stronger resistance to austerity measures. 
We have already seen the astonishing events in the Arab world, trade 
union rallies in Wisconsin on a scale not seen in America since Vietnam 
protests, direct-action by tax-justice campaigners UK Uncut – and 26 
March will see ‘March for the Alternative’ the largest national 
anti-cuts demonstration yet. SPRINGTIME is both an inspiring chronicle 
of and companion to this movement: “the formulation of an experience” of 
a generation.

Rather than considering them a series of isolated incidents, this new 
book locates the student protests in the movement spreading across the 
entire western world: ever since the financial crash of 2008 there has 
been growing social and political turbulence in the heartlands of 
capital and beyond. From Athens to Rome, San Francisco to London – and 
the stunning events in Tunisia and Egypt that captured the world’s 
imagination – students are playing a key role in developing a strong, 
coherent social and political movement.

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CLARE SOLOMON is President of the University of London Union and has 
been centrally involved in the student protests.

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ISBN: 978 1 84467 740 5/ $14.95 / £9.99 / Paperback / 296 pages

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For more information or to buy the book visit:
http://www.versobooks.com/books/799-springtime

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