Students at Britain’s University of Sussex occupied a conference center on campus for 29 hours earlier this week, in opposition to coming cutbacks and in solidarity with campus labor actions against those cuts.

One hundred and six students were present at the start of the occupation on Monday, and two hundred more reportedly joined the group the following afternoon.

The students ended the occupation voluntarily. There were no arrests and no immediate reports of disciplinary action. The students made no demands over the course of their action, and did not seek to negotiate with the university administration.

One class scheduled to be held in the occupied space was canceled, but the cancelation came at the insistence of the university, over the objections of the course’s professor and students.

The Sussex protest and other similar actions prompted the weekly magazine The New Statesman to ask this week whether Britain’s campuses are seeing the beginning of a new wave of student protests and strikes.