In a recent speech, the Vice Chancellor of Oxford University accused the ‘mendacious media’ and ‘tawdry politicians’ of trying to tarnish the reputation of the higher education sector by pointing out the hypocrisy of her pay rises. Of course, it was a disaster of a speech all round, with the Read more…
At 12a.m. this morning, Georgina, a worker in the Newmarket Road McDonald’s in Cambridge, walked out of work to begin a strike. Strike action is taking place today in two workplaces in the UK and is coordinated with international action in the USA, where McDonald’s workers have been fighting Read more…
In a historic victory, Justice for Workers at SOAS have spent the last week celebrating what has been a decade of struggle to bring all outsourced staff at SOAS in house.
This July, the ‘Cut the Rent’ campaign at University College London (UCL) announced that students had secured major concessions from management for university accommodation rents. This follows a five month long rent strike in which 200 students living at UCL halls of residence withheld rents ranging from £156 to £276 Read more…
The University of Manchester (UoM) plans to cut 171 jobs, including those of 140 academic staff (leaving up to 1000 staff uncertain about their future) and Manchester Metropolitan University (MMU) plans the closure of their Crew Campus (leading to a further 160 job losses). The staff cuts will affect the Read more…
Between June 14 and 18, 2017, the 55th National Union of Students (UNE) Congress took place in Belo Horizonte. The event, held jointly at the Federal University of Minas Gerais (UFMG) and Ginásio Mineirinho, in the Pampulha region, was attended by more than fifteen thousand young people, with almost five Read more…
I’ve always been a socialist, since I was 14, and I understood the differences between capitalism and communism. But I have never become so convinced of the enormity of it until I become a care worker last year and I’ve seen in my own eyes the suffering of ordinary vulnerable Read more…
UCU members at Ealing, Hammersmith & West London College are planning strike action on Thursday 29th June over the threat of compulsory redundancies of up to 10 lecturers – one of the people under threat is the UCU Branch Secretary. The redundancies arise from cuts in a number of departments and Read more…
Today (28 June) is a day of protest to demand the reinstatement of Dawn Holdman, a UCU rep at the University of Liverpool who is believed to have been dismissed for her trade union activity. Marxist students are in solidarity with Dawn. It’s a disgrace that anyone should lose their Read more…
The Rail, Maritime and Transport (RMT) union Annual General Meeting (AGM) is discussing a proposal by the leadership to open a full debate in all branches and amongst the members culminating in a Special General Meeting to reaffiliate to the Labour Party. John McDonnell speaking at a fringe meeting appealed Read more…
In a period of capitalist crisis there are no longer any reforms to give but only counter-reforms and attacks on the working class to make. No area is safe from sacrifice to increase the profitability of capital. In these periods the reality of liberal ideology and capitalism itself is laid Read more…
As the current academic term ends and studies conclude for another generation of undergraduate students, work carries on for the thousands of staff employed at universities and higher education colleges across the country. Just last year, figures from the Higher Education Statistics Agency, analysed and released by UCU, revealed the Read more…
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