Student unionism is not in crisis

Liberation issues and bread-and-butter issues do not sit on opposite ends of an imaginary relevance spectrum, say Ben Vulliamy and Pierrick Roger

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July 13, 2022

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July 13, 2022

Ben Vulliamy Pierrick Roger

Twitter: @bvulliamy

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