Campaign for Free Education

The Campaign for Free Education (often abbreviated CFE) was a left-wing grouping in the National Union of Students of the United Kingdom of those opposed to tuition fees and the abolition of student grants.

The coalition was founded in 1995 in opposition to proposals by Labour Students and the Organised Independents for the NUS to abandon its opposition to the abolition of student grants. Although initially a broad based campaign encompassing many from across the spectrum the organisation moved towards a stronger left-wing position, pushed by student members of the Alliance for Workers Liberty who had been amongst the founders.

Support for CFE was particularly strong at Huddersfield Polytechnic where in 1996 a benefit CD called "No Compromize" was organised by music organisation Chocolate Fireguard. Featured music included Suede, Senser, Dreadzone, Northern Uproar, Zion Train, Kava Kava (band), June 2011, Marion, Transglobal Underground, Intastella, Fun-Da-Mental, Eat Static, Cud, X-CNN, The Wedding Present, Utah Saints, Revolutionary Dub Warriors, Banco Da Gaia, Chumbawamba, Loop Guru, Ukrainians, Tony Benn, Autechre, Moonflowers (band). The Music Industry got further behind the CFE when music magazines NME and Melody Maker revealed that members of the NUS wrote to the various artists asking them not to support the CFE in this way. "No Compromize" went on to be released through independent record label Delerium Records.

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