30 March 2007
11. Enable the disabled
Proposed by Southampton Institute Socialist Students
The vote was unanimously in favour at ISR and Socialist Students conference 2007. No abstentions.
At Universities across Britain, students face massive debt for their education. The cost of their education is not met by a high standard of teaching, facilities and equal opportunities and access for all. When confronted, Universities come out with some political correct jargon and bureaucracy to justify not providing equal access and provisions for disabled students. We believe a decent standard of education, with fair access and provisions should be available to all students, regardless of their economic background, age, race, disability and so on. Education should be funded by central government and should meet the needs of all students.
We aim to:
Campaign for awareness of disabled students, to promote the ideas of equal opportunities and highlight the problems that disabled students face every day.
Build a Campaign to put pressure on universities to provide fair access and provisions to disabled students. Such as disabled toilets, access to facilities etc.
Link the needs of disabled students to the need for a fully inclusive, fully publicly funded education system from central government.
No to the war and occupation in Iraq and Afghanistan. Troops out now.
No to trident and all nuclear arms.
No to low pay and bad working conditions. For a living wage for all.
For trade union rights and for democratic, campaigning unions.
For free quality education for all. No to top-up fees and yes to grants and a higher EMA for all students.
Defend democratic rights, including the right to strike and protest. No to ID cards.
For publicly funded, high quality youth facilities.
Stop all forms of discrimination; equal rights for all.
For workers and young peoples unity to struggle to end sexism, racism and homophobia.
For mass mobilisations to prevent racist and fascist activities. No platform for fascists.
Defend the right to asylum.
For free, high quality provision of healthcare, education, and other essential social services to cover the needs of the whole community. No to big business profiteering out of our services!
No to privatisation.
For a massive increase in public spending on education, the environment, health, housing etc.
For progressive taxation on profits and wealth.
Down with the IMF, World Bank, and WTO. For mass mobilisations by the anti-capitalist movement and working people to stop the bosses' summits.
Stop the exploitation of the world's poorest by multinational banks and corporations.
Immediate cancellation of 'Third World' debts.
For international solidarity with the working and oppressed masses around the world.
For a socialist planned economy taking the needs of the environment into account.
