Education Not For Sale

Education Not for Sale (ENS) was a radical left-wing student campaign in the United Kingdom.

The name originally derives from the "European Education Not for Sale network" and was first used by socialist and other radical activists at the National Union of Students of the United Kingdom conference in April 2005 who wanted to organise a left-wing pole of attraction opposed to both what they saw as the "right-wing" NUS leadership's betrayals on top-up fees, and groups on the left which they felt had betrayed consistent left-wing principles on issues such as both universal human rights and cultural relativism, and supporting workers and women against both US/UK "imperialism" and Islamist terror in Iraq.

The organisation was formally founded at a conference at the University of East London in September 2005, and refounded with a substantially more radical and extensive political programme at the Reclaim the Campus conference at Birkbeck, University of London in May 2008.

Activists are also involved in a variety of left-wing labour movement-oriented campaigns, such as Students Against Sweatshops/No Sweat and Workers' Climate Action, and claim to support a united left in the British student movement and NUS.

ENS claims to be a successor to the Campaign for Free Education (CFE), although it involves almost none of the same activists. Like CFE, it has the support of the small Trotskyist group, the Alliance for Workers' Liberty, and it also involves activists from a variety of other left-wing political backgrounds and organisations, left-wing Labour Party members, independent socialists, members of the Revolution group, members of the Green Party of England and Wales and a number of student activists from an anarchist background.

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