As the situation worsens, we are working longer hours for less pay. This is all why the richest get richer. Make no mistake, the richest are not suffering under this crisis. The burden is being put on the working class. By uniting, coming together and fighting against the system, we can win. Join us and fight. Read more about the suffering for worker’s under the crisis.
The letter below is being distributed to students at Queen Mary, University of London by local UCU members who are taking strike action. We republish it here in an effort to inform as many students as possible about the ins and outs of this strike and why students should support Read more…
The Justice for Cleaners (J4C) movement, which began in 2006, has been a decade long struggle against exploitation and outsourcing by a multinational business, and a fight against being treated as second class workers at SOAS (School of Oriental and African Studies), University of London. The campaign is moving to Read more…
The demonstration and march organised by UCL Cut the Rent on Thursday 17th March was an overall success. In the quad, Max Rayne residents united with students from other halls of residence in order to protest against high student rents. Protesting students, joined by representatives of the media, marched on Read more…
In yet another act of contempt for public service workers, Osborne’s latest budget saw the Conservative government declare their plans to impose yet another change – the removal of all schools from local authority control, to become academies by 2020. Rightfully outraged, members of the National Union of Teachers (NUT) called Read more…
The changes to junior doctors contracts is the result of the crisis of capitalism that came dramatically to the surface in 2008 and has not be resolved since. The proposed changes to the contacts Four years after the question of NHS reform was originally raised the idea of a ‘7-day Read more…
University vice-chancellors’ average salaries ballooned to £272,000 last year, a £12,000 increase on 2014. Freedom of Information requests by the University and Colleges Union (UCU) uncovered these “inflation-busting” pay packages, along with additional data on expenses that reveal the lavish lifestyles enjoyed by fatcats leeching off the university sector. The UCU Read more…
Last week, Open University staff in Cambridge took to the streets in reaction to government plans to close down several regional centres. UCU (University and College Union) members from Manchester, Cambridge, Belfast, Edinburgh and Cardiff – to name but a few of the cities that will see strike action in Read more…
“We’re all middle class now” proclaimed John Prescott in 1997 to the agreement of a great many. Of course, this statement glossed over issues such as homelessness, low pay in an age before the minimum wage, and the shattered communities unable to rebuild after Thatcher’s savage deindustrialisation. But this Read more…
Staff at the University of Manchester will be balloted for strike action by the University and College Union (UCU) after bosses at the university disregarded employment procedure. Instead of waiting for the current review of redeployment procedure to be completed, the university issued 37 at risk of redundancy notices, leading Read more…
Marxist Students have lent their support and solidarity to a campaign at King’s College London (KCL) fighting to achieve fair pay and reasonable working conditions for part-time student staff. General Teaching Assistants (GTAs) are widely-exploited by university management as a source of cheap labour, being saddled with complex duties including marking, Read more…
In February 2009 a raid by the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) exposed the existence of a blacklist containing the personal details of 3,213 people, largely construction workers. This blacklist had operated as the ‘Consulting Association’ from 1993 and had been used by over 40 UK construction companies to deny work Read more…
