Workers at two Wetherspoon pubs in Brighton are being balloted for strike action, with demands raised for a £10 per hour wage and union recognition. The ballot has been called by the Bakers Food and Allied Workers Union (BFAWU), which was behind the historic ‘McStrike’ action last year, organising Read more…
In recent months, Universities UK (UUK) and the British government have been collaborating with Egyptian higher education (HE) institutions to form a series of academic partnerships between universities in Britain and Egypt. UUK and the government have conveniently failed to mention, however, that Egypt’s Sisi regime is currently involved Read more…
Members of the University and College Union (UCU) in 110 colleges in England and 147 UK universities are being balloted for strike action in a row over pay. The ballots opened on Thursday 30 August and will close on Friday 19 October. The dispute in universities has arisen after Read more…
The Child Poverty Action Group (CPAG) recently reported that working class families with parents in low-earning jobs cannot afford even basic necessities. Basic necessities are those costs that families simply cannot survive without: food, clothing, rent, utilities, etc. This report, unsettling though it may be, can hardly be surprising Read more…
Since 2008 social welfare institutions have been attacked on a global scale because capitalism in crisis is unable to afford them. In this context the French ruling class has tasked President Macron with smashing every gain the working class has made since the beginning of the post-war period: from Read more…
“I am going to lose £700. Travel card expenses to and from work cost me £98. No childcare. I support my three children back home (overseas). I can’t afford rent and bills with this change.” “The change in hours could force me to quit, doing so would make me Read more…
Picture this: the year is 1018 and you’re the court jester for some provincial lord. You perform amusing tricks for him, and if you do a good job he might toss you some scraps from his table. He sleeps well, having exhibited such charity. You sleep on a flee-infested Read more…
The principal of King’s College London has contacted all students warning that respect for “freedom of expression” will be upheld at the university – through curtailment of the right to protest. The university’s new measures to ‘promote free speech’ implicitly reference a recent incident that occurred during a lecture Read more…
It was announced last week that Prof Koen Lamberts will become the University of Sheffield’s new Vice-Chancellor. Of course, the decision was made without the involvement of workers or students. Lamberts is one of many senior careerists within higher education who slinks from one cushy position to another. During Read more…
Stressed out teachers are leaving the profession in droves. An overhaul of GCSEs has led many students to feel suicidal. And declining conditions are hitting university staff. The British education system is in crisis left, right and centre. Young people are bearing the brunt of this crisis with ever-mounting debts Read more…
Prevent is one of the four strands of the government’s counter-terrorism strategy, ‘Contest’, created by the Labour government in 2003, and later widened in 2011. It is farcically described as “a community safeguarding programme” to stop people becoming involved in terrorism. This hinges on a system of reports from ‘community Read more…
The University of London’s Senate House building provided the inspiration for the Ministry of Truth in George Orwell’s 1984. It seems only fitting that the university does everything it can to live up to the Ministry’s reputation. Students recently occupied Senate House in solidarity with the IWGB strike over the Read more…
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