A hard-left organisation that took part in demonstrations across French cities has released a guide urging British students to replicate tactics used by protestors during the widespread disorder.
Socialist Students sent out the advice amid warnings agitators were planning to “bring the chaos of the French streets to the UK”.
Three representatives of the group were in France last week amid the protests, ostensibly about education standards and the cost of living, which quickly spiralled into looting, arson and damage to more than 500 businesses.
The group’s National Chair, Adam Powell-Davies, said their visit coincided with the French unrest by coincidence.
However, organisers adjusted their schedule so attendees could join the demonstrations, which he called “really inspiring” and claimed had been “completely peaceful”.
He accused police of committing the “most grotesque and frequent instances of violence”, citing two protesters injured by stun grenades.
On Wednesday, Socialist Students published the eight-page manual, which set out detailed instructions for young people across the country to leave their lessons on November 20 as part of a continent-wide strike.
Next month’s walkout is being organised under the banner of Youth International Strike, a coalition demanding action on public services, militarisation, and the cost-of-living crisis affecting young people across Europe.
The guide, seen by The Sunday Times, advises pupils to leave their classrooms in small clusters of three or four, a tactic designed to make it harder for staff to intervene.
Once a critical mass has left, the manual recommends gathering outside with a megaphone before marching to nearby schools or colleges to recruit more participants.
“If hundreds walk out, rally on the spot with the megaphone, then march, perhaps to another school or college to call them out too,” the document states.
It also advises those concerned about being prevented from leaving to stay away from school altogether.
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“You can convince others not to go in either: the more of you who stay out, the harder it is for anyone to stop the walkout,” the manual reads.
The organisation has predicted that “thousands” of students will take part in the action.
Socialist Students is campaigning to scrap tuition fees, expel arms manufacturers from university campuses, set a £15-an-hour minimum wage for all workers and raise taxes on the wealthiest.
It sets out its overarching objective as building what it describes as a socialist future “without war, poverty or climate chaos”.
Reacting to the threat of disorder, Shadow Home Secretary Chris Philp warned: “Anyone hoping to bring the chaos of the French streets to Britain should know that parents want their children in lessons, and the public wants order, with no appetite for handing the country over to hard-left agitators.
“There is a place for legitimate protest, but riots and looting are unacceptable, and those instigating criminality should be arrested.”
More than 1300 people were arrested across France last night as disorder erupted again.
Addressing the riots at a speech in Orleans, National Rally parliamentary leader Marine Le Pen declared: “We will turn our back on movements that promote intolerance, like France Unbowed and its rioters.”
Her speech took aim at the radical left party France Unbowed, whose leader, Jean-Luc Mélenchon, blamed riots on the police, whom he accused of “a setup deliberately designed to provoke chaos”.
GB News has contacted Socialist Students for comment.
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A hard-left organisation that took part in demonstrations across French cities has released a guide urging British students to replicate tactics used by protestors during the widespread disorder.
Socialist Students sent out the advice amid warnings agitators were planning to “bring the chaos of the French streets to the UK”.
Three representatives of the group were in France last week amid the protests, ostensibly about education standards and the cost of living, which quickly spiralled into looting, arson and damage to more than 500 businesses.
The group’s National Chair, Adam Powell-Davies, said their visit coincided with the French unrest by coincidence.
However, organisers adjusted their schedule so attendees could join the demonstrations, which he called “really inspiring” and claimed had been “completely peaceful”.
He accused police of committing the “most grotesque and frequent instances of violence”, citing two protesters injured by stun grenades.
On Wednesday, Socialist Students published the eight-page manual, which set out detailed instructions for young people across the country to leave their lessons on November 20 as part of a continent-wide strike.
Next month’s walkout is being organised under the banner of Youth International Strike, a coalition demanding action on public services, militarisation, and the cost-of-living crisis affecting young people across Europe.
The guide, seen by The Sunday Times, advises pupils to leave their classrooms in small clusters of three or four, a tactic designed to make it harder for staff to intervene.
Once a critical mass has left, the manual recommends gathering outside with a megaphone before marching to nearby schools or colleges to recruit more participants.
“If hundreds walk out, rally on the spot with the megaphone, then march, perhaps to another school or college to call them out too,” the document states.
It also advises those concerned about being prevented from leaving to stay away from school altogether.
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“You can convince others not to go in either: the more of you who stay out, the harder it is for anyone to stop the walkout,” the manual reads.
The organisation has predicted that “thousands” of students will take part in the action.
Socialist Students is campaigning to scrap tuition fees, expel arms manufacturers from university campuses, set a £15-an-hour minimum wage for all workers and raise taxes on the wealthiest.
It sets out its overarching objective as building what it describes as a socialist future “without war, poverty or climate chaos”.
Reacting to the threat of disorder, Shadow Home Secretary Chris Philp warned: “Anyone hoping to bring the chaos of the French streets to Britain should know that parents want their children in lessons, and the public wants order, with no appetite for handing the country over to hard-left agitators.
“There is a place for legitimate protest, but riots and looting are unacceptable, and those instigating criminality should be arrested.”
More than 1300 people were arrested across France last night as disorder erupted again.
Addressing the riots at a speech in Orleans, National Rally parliamentary leader Marine Le Pen declared: “We will turn our back on movements that promote intolerance, like France Unbowed and its rioters.”
Her speech took aim at the radical left party France Unbowed, whose leader, Jean-Luc Mélenchon, blamed riots on the police, whom he accused of “a setup deliberately designed to provoke chaos”.
GB News has contacted Socialist Students for comment.
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