Further Education lecturers and students joined our magnificent battling HE comrades in a march on Parliament last Wednesday. It was the first day of a two-day action in FE to be followed up by a further three days of strike …
The Shock of the new!
Cambridge University shows solidarity with City and Islington College
All strikes are important but there are some strikes which reflect a wider political shift taking place within society as a whole. The strike by 40,000 HE workers across 64 universities …
We are on strike to win!
Cambridge students rally outside Senate House in solidarity with striking UCU members
News that Cambridge Vice Chancellor Steven Toope called on UUK to return to negotiations was greeted with cheers by hundreds of strikers outside the University administration buildings in …
Don’t forget the VP and NEC elections!
UCU members are in the middle of major strike action. In HE we are seeing phenomenal attendance on picket lines. In FE strike preparations are underway.
The reason these strikes are happening is as a result of UCU Left members …
Unite to Defend Education!
Scrap fees — Education should be for all who can benefit
Support the Pension and Pay strikes
The Tories’ announcement on 19 November that they were looking into Higher Education funding is an admission that their policy of overpriced undergraduate …
FE Delivers Stunning Response! How can we build the USS and FE strikes?

16 FE colleges overwhelmingly vote for action: Enough is enough….
UCU members in 16 colleges have voted by 92% on a 63% turn out to take escalating strike action. The employers have been notified that the first phase of action will be a two-day strike on the 28th February and …
Build the strikes: Build the Union – End the destruction of the Market

University staff are right to be striking – letter to the Guardian 30 January
There is no justification for this pension attack – USS’s finances are strong, argue 153 university academics
University employers have provoked the largest vote for industrial action ever seen in the higher education sector. They have done this by overseeing …
Historic Vote in UCU
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Now Make It Count: build the strikes
The vote for strikes to defend USS pensions in pre-92 universities is historic on many levels.
Not only is the 56% turnout and 88% …