The #YouthStrike4Climate is a global movement with radical implications. The strikes and demos have been militant, largely spontaneous and massive in size. On 15th March 1.4 million students went on strike in 129 countries. But the movement has to begin thinking beyond these latest strikes if its aims are to Read more…
A number of students from the ‘Goldsmiths Anti-Racist Action’ campaign have occupied the Deptford Town Hall campus building since 12 March in protest at the pitiful response from university management and the student union leadership at the racist abuse of a candidate in the recent student officer election. Hamna Imran Read more…
Several hundred workers demonstrated through central London yesterday (Tuesday 26 February) to demand an end to outsourcing and precarious work. The IWGB, PCS, and UVW unions led joint strike action to bring out cleaners from the University of London and facilities workers from the government Department for Business, Energy Read more…
Sally Hunt, General Secretary of the University and Colleges Union since 2007, has stepped down following a long period of inactivity due to ‘ill health’. The news of the end of Hunt’s 12-year reign came, coincidentally enough, a few days after an HE strike ballot over stagnant pay failed Read more…
“A six-hour-per-week contract will often demand double that amount of time.” The worker describing this appalling exploitation in their workplace was not employed in a factory during the times of Charles Dickens: they work in a university in 2019. Nor is this sort of regime of overwork confined to Read more…
On Friday 15th February, school students came out onto the streets in their thousands across the country in a call to action over the climate crisis. In Sheffield, hundreds came out on strike at the Town Hall and spoke about why they were there. As expected, there was a Read more…
110 Marxists from all over Britain met in London, on Saturday 16th Feb, discussing the nature of work under capitalism, the history and role of Marxists in the labour movement and how to concretely prepare for the fight for socialism. Just one day after the historic school student strike, Read more…
Higher Education Crisis! Rising star, Dominic Shellard, has fallen on his sword. The Vice Chancellor of De Montfort University has resigned amid a backdrop of resignations from the Board of Governors and an investigation by the HE regulator, the Office for Students, into “issues” apparently around university governance. The Read more…
UCL Unison have recently launched a campaign to bring outsourced cleaning, catering and security staff back in house under the same conditions as staff directly employed by UCL, under the slogan #BringThemIn. The campaign has also received support from UCL Labour Society. This comes as a welcome development following efforts Read more…
On Sunday, 20 January 2019, the Guardian published an opinion piece by Anne-Marie Canning, the Director of Social Mobility and Student Success at KCL, in which she asserted that cutting tuition fees would mean “shut[ing] the door to poor students”. Her paradoxical argument rests on the fact that, since the Read more…
The private tuition industry’s profits are soaring as Tory cuts continue to decimate the education system. Parents are having to fill the gap in education left by inadequate funding, academisation, and more ‘rigorous’ examinations. Children in Tory Britain are being left behind in the pursuit of profit. The private tuition Read more…
After successes at the London School of Economics (LSE), Kings College London (KCL), the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS) and others, outsourced workers at London universities are proving that determined and militant campaigns get results. Strike action, demonstrations, and student solidarity have forced university management to agree to Read more…
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