Why are student strikes in general something childish and foolish? There's no other way of getting what you deserve in this country, after all.

I do agree that ASAT's actions are silly, in the sense that burning cars and blocking roads are counter-productive.

But they do have a point - why should the students suffer whenever the Treasury doesn't live up to its wage promises to senior lecturers? Why don't the lecturers cease their government-funded research in protest, instead of hurting our scholarly ends?