Problem and solution: Occupation and collective complaint

Dossier: Decolonising the University

Ethiraj Gabriel Dattatreyan and Akanksha Mehta ~ RP 2.08 (Autumn 2020), pp. 66–72 ~ Commentary

In the spring and summer of 2019, a group of Black and PoC students from Goldsmiths, University of London formed Goldsmiths Anti-Racist Action (GARA) and occupied Deptford Town Hall – a key administrative building on campus – to push back against the institutional racism they experienced in the university. We, two junior academics situated in […]

The attack on civil rights in West Germany

Claudia van Braunmuhl ~ RP 019 (Spring 1978) ~ Article

The atlack on civilrighlS in Wesl Germany Claudia van Braunmuhl Introductory note equated with ‘sympathy for terrorism’, protest against the policy has not been silenced, but continues to grow. The various groups in West Germany struggling to defend and recover basic democratic rights have repeatedly appealed for support and solidarity from other countries, noting the […]

Thought and Action in the Huntingdon Affair: Freedom of Speech and Academic Freedom

Roy Edgley ~ RP 010 (Spring 1975) ~ Article

ana Action ‘in the Huntinglon Affair I’nedom of Speech and Acaclamlc ….eedom Thought RoyEdgley ,. In Summer 1973 a group of students at Sussex University prevented Samuel P. Huntington, an American professor, from giving an academic lecture (see centre pages of RP7). They objected to his having played the par~f a ~new mandarin~ in the […]