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LSE students demand university bans all private school students, eradicates free market economist Friedrich Hayek from the curriculum, no platforms speakers and introduces minority quotas for staff
  • LSE Class War demanded LSE becomes 'gradually' free from privately educated
  • The students, which a source said was just a handful, released a list of demands
  • They said bosses must eradicate a student society to economist Friedrich Hayek
  • LSE Class War also backed move to no platform speakers who visited institution
  • But their claims were met with an immediate backlash from MPs and other pupils
A group of activists at London School of Economics have released a radical manifesto calling for the university to ban all private school students.

LSE Class War demanded the institution becomes 'gradually' free from anyone educated at an independent school.

The students, which a source at the university said was just a handful, released a list of demands on Sunday.

They said bosses must eradicate a student society to the free market economist Friedrich Hayek because it is 'oppressive to the working class'.

LSE Class War backed no platforming speakers it claims 'are harmful to marginalised students'.

And it said the university has to bring in minority quotas for staff, saying there is only one full time black professor there.

But their claims were met with an immediate backlash, with Richard Holden MP - an LSE alumni - among those hitting out at the group.

It says: '1. Install a David Graeber lecture series, to celebrate the life of the revered professor.'

Mr Graeber was a left-wing academic and anarchist activist who died last September aged 59.

It continues: '2. Decolonise LSE. We support the decolonisation of LSE, and wish to see BAME quotas for the hiring of academics. There is currently only one full time black professor at LSE.

'3. A private school free LSE. We wish to see LSE to gradually become a private school free institution. 1 in 3 (home) students come from fee paying schools.

'4. The dissolution of HayekSoc and all other societies that call for the oppression of working class people from the LSESU.

'We believe in a no platforming policy for those who discuss ideas which promote ideologies that are harmful to marginalised students.

'LSESU HayekSoc promotes free market fundamentalist views which outwardly call for the oppression of working class people.

'These kind of views have no place on campus. We also want other societies that promote these views, to also be dissolved from the LSESU.

'5. Financial integrity at LSE. We wish for more financial transparency at LSE. We want a look into investments that LSE holds.

'We also want a review into the LSE Directors salary, which is currently at £434,000 per year.'

'6. Pay all workers a fair wage and not to be on zero hour contracts. We want all workers at LSE to be on London Living Wages and for the abolition of all zero hour contracts that LSE currently employs.

'7. More financial and pastoral support for young carers. Students, who are also carers, have a double work burden.

'We want LSE to offer bursaries to these students, alongside 1 to 1 and other pastoral support.

'8. Remove social mobility from the LSESU working class and social mobility officer title. LSE Class War is opposed to the concept of ''social mobility''.

'As we have noted before, social mobility means that only a few of the working class can transcend their class position. We want all working class people to rise together.'

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It is the UK so this kind of initiative is not going to come from the government or big business.

LSE at least making a statement.
 
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LSE students demand university bans all private school students, eradicates free market economist Friedrich Hayek from the curriculum, no platforms speakers and introduces minority quotas for staff
  • LSE Class War demanded LSE becomes 'gradually' free from privately educated
  • The students, which a source said was just a handful, released a list of demands
  • They said bosses must eradicate a student society to economist Friedrich Hayek
  • LSE Class War also backed move to no platform speakers who visited institution
  • But their claims were met with an immediate backlash from MPs and other pupils
A group of activists at London School of Economics have released a radical manifesto calling for the university to ban all private school students.

LSE Class War demanded the institution becomes 'gradually' free from anyone educated at an independent school.

The students, which a source at the university said was just a handful, released a list of demands on Sunday.

They said bosses must eradicate a student society to the free market economist Friedrich Hayek because it is 'oppressive to the working class'.

LSE Class War backed no platforming speakers it claims 'are harmful to marginalised students'.

And it said the university has to bring in minority quotas for staff, saying there is only one full time black professor there.

But their claims were met with an immediate backlash, with Richard Holden MP - an LSE alumni - among those hitting out at the group.

It says: '1. Install a David Graeber lecture series, to celebrate the life of the revered professor.'

Mr Graeber was a left-wing academic and anarchist activist who died last September aged 59.

It continues: '2. Decolonise LSE. We support the decolonisation of LSE, and wish to see BAME quotas for the hiring of academics. There is currently only one full time black professor at LSE.

'3. A private school free LSE. We wish to see LSE to gradually become a private school free institution. 1 in 3 (home) students come from fee paying schools.

'4. The dissolution of HayekSoc and all other societies that call for the oppression of working class people from the LSESU.

'We believe in a no platforming policy for those who discuss ideas which promote ideologies that are harmful to marginalised students.

'LSESU HayekSoc promotes free market fundamentalist views which outwardly call for the oppression of working class people.

'These kind of views have no place on campus. We also want other societies that promote these views, to also be dissolved from the LSESU.

'5. Financial integrity at LSE. We wish for more financial transparency at LSE. We want a look into investments that LSE holds.

'We also want a review into the LSE Directors salary, which is currently at £434,000 per year.'

'6. Pay all workers a fair wage and not to be on zero hour contracts. We want all workers at LSE to be on London Living Wages and for the abolition of all zero hour contracts that LSE currently employs.

'7. More financial and pastoral support for young carers. Students, who are also carers, have a double work burden.

'We want LSE to offer bursaries to these students, alongside 1 to 1 and other pastoral support.

'8. Remove social mobility from the LSESU working class and social mobility officer title. LSE Class War is opposed to the concept of ''social mobility''.

'As we have noted before, social mobility means that only a few of the working class can transcend their class position. We want all working class people to rise together.'

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It is the UK so this kind of initiative is not going to come from the government or big business.

LSE at least making a statement.
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