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Students win trade union support for tuition fees protest | Education | guardian.co.uk

Students win trade union support for tuition fees protest

GMB and Unite leaders support planned London march while police chief says demos mean officers are not fighting crime

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• Peter Walker
• guardian.co.uk, Monday 20 December 2010 14.32 GMT
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Police officers stand guard outside parliament during the recent student protests. Photograph: Oli Scarff/Getty Images

Students protesting against increased tuition fees and cuts to education spending have won pledges of trade union support ahead of their next demonstration in London on 29 January.

The fourth national protest, organised by the National Campaign Against Cuts and Fees and the Education Activist Network, will be the first since the chaotic scenes in the centre of the capital on 9 December, the day