The long-running strike by UCU members at University of Brighton ended on 10th November. What we believe to be the longest ever strike in UK HE history, certainly the longest by UCU, lasted 129 days. In fact, as the walk-out …
Report on UCU National Executive meeting November 2023
A Crisis in the Making in Post-92 Higher Education
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 …
BRICUP Seminar 3: Erasing Palestine • Prof Rebecca Ruth Gould
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 …
All out for Palestine on 29 November UN Day of Solidarity
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 …
What happened to the ‘national’ FE dispute?
Last week saw UCU members in FE on strike over pay, workload and national binding bargaining (i.e. a pay rise that is paid to every branch). The strikes were well supported with large, vibrant pickets – many members were out …
Fair pay in FE
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 …
After million people march for Palestine – now take the movement into the workplace
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 …
What went wrong with the UCU Rising Campaign?
How the UCU reballot over pay and conditions missed the threshold
The turnout in the reballot, at 42.59%, will be a huge disappointment for every union member who wanted to see a fight over pay and conditions. But a …
UKRI, Palestine and Academic Freedom: How UK research funding moved from critical thinking to Blacklisting and McCarthyism
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 …
One State!

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 …