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UCU’s National Executive Committee met last week and voted to reaffirm its support for solidarity with the Palestinian people and call for branches and members to build support for staff student …
6pm Thursday 30 November
Zoom: /bit.ly/BRICUPSeminar3
This is a timely talk by Rebecca Gould. In the UK, as in the US and across Europe, voices for Palestine are being suppressed. Some of the key sites for this silencing are …
Weeks of relentless bombing have left more than 14500 dead and tens of thousands injured, while homes, schools, hospitals and basic infrastructure across Gaza have been flattened. Millions around the world are organising to show they reject this mass murder …
On Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday of this week 14 FE colleges will take strike action over pay, workload and national binding bargaining. FE lecturers’ pay has been cut by 30% in real terms over the last decade. At the same …
Saturday’s demonstration in solidarity with the Palestinians was the biggest march for Palestine in British history and one of the biggest marches in British history. A million people poured into London to march to the US embassy. The march more than filled …
The Israeli war on the Palestinian people has had an impact across wide areas of civil society far from the Middle East and far from the politics of the Israel-Palestine conflict.
UK Research and Innovation (UKRI), the umbrella body for …
Register here: bit.ly/BRICUP23_24Seminar2
The remorseless colonisation of the West Bank through illegal settlements, the disaggregation of the territory, continuous pressure to force Palestinians into exile, and the isolation of the Gaza Strip since 2006, have now rendered a two-state solution …
This has been a transformative year in many ways. After decades of low-level strike action millions of workers have fought back, many for the first time. Unions have become rallying points for resistance. But there is a growing realisation amongst …
Following our Annual General Meeting, UCU Left are pleased to put forward our candidates for Vice President (FE) and for the position of General Secretary. We will also be standing a slate of candidates for the NEC elections.
UCU members …
Please see below a message from the British Committee for the Universities of Palestine requesting UCU members to consider four suggested actions and also forwarding the request to any colleagues who you think would be sympathetic.
Gaza – four things …