A group of students who barricaded themselves inside a university building for five weeks in a protest over rent prices say they 'will not stop until they win'. The strikers have been refusing to pay their accommodation fees since January, and have this week claimed more students have joined the cause.
Demands made by the University of Manchester Rent Strike group include a 30 per cent rent reduction or rebate for this year; a rent freeze across university digs for at least three years; and that at least 40pc of university halls cost less than half of the maximum student maintenance loan within the next three years.
They also want assurance that those students who took part in the 37-day stand-off with campus security face no punishment for their actions.
