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ARTS students occupied one of London’s most prestigious galleries yesterday after university management announced plans to sell the site to luxury property developers.
Students at The Cass architecture design and art school took over the institute’s Bank Gallery in Whitechapel with the enthusiastic support of artists Bob and Roberta Smith, Mandy Shadow and Artist Taxi Driver.
They demanded the immediate halt of the building’s sale, which they labelled a “disgrace.”
The creative imagination is a weapon against barbarism, writes KENNY COYLE, who is a keynote speaker at the Manifesto Press conference, Art in the Age of Degenerative Capitalism, tomorrow at the Marx Memorial Library & Workers School in London
Almost half of universities face deficits, merger mania is taking hold, and massive fee hikes that will lock out working-class students are on the horizon, write RUBEN BRETT, PAUL WHITEHOUSE and DAN GRACE