UCU’s NEC met last Friday in the context of a global Coronavirus pandemic. It was followed by a short emergency HEC, called in response to requests by members of UCU Left, to address the two disputes the union is …
Report on NEC/HEC 13 March
Covid-19: People before Profit: control the lock-down
On Thursday 12 March, Boris Johnson spoke to the UK press flanked by his scientific advisors. Live on air he told Britain “your loved ones will die”, and that the Government had moved from ‘containment’ to ‘delay’.
He stopped short …
Coronavirus, capitalism and class
The outbreak of the Coronavirus COVID-19, has created panic across the globe. The Italian government has just placed 16 million people under quarantine. Schools, universities, gyms, museums and nightclubs have been closed across the whole country. In total across the …
Let’s push on to victory
After the first five of our 14 strike days, the employers are looking for ways to settle. There were talks last week in both disputes and more to follow this week.
Both sides know that the future direction of higher …
Defend Trans Rights
The cartoon in the Morning Star depicting trans people as vicious predators would have been shocking if it had appeared in the Daily Mail. But to see it in a socialist newspaper with its roots in the trade union movement …
Why UCU Left?
Debate during the UCU elections has raised the question of why the UCU Left exists and why there are groupings and ‘factions’ in the union.
For a number of years two organisations have put forward candidates for elections with competing
… Escalate to win the pay inequalities and pension fights
Strike to win – pickets and student supporters in Cambridge, 4 December 2019
The five issues we are fighting on are inextricably linked. We need to escalate to win on all of them.
We are in a …
‘Hotdesking’ in the lift: Edinburgh grad students organise against attacks on working conditions
Graduate students at Edinburgh have been organising a creative and highly democratic campaign to highlight the university’s attacks on their working conditions, after managers told research students in the School of Social and Political Science that they would be moved …
Special HE Sector Conference
UCU Left has organised two meetings on the fringe of Friday’s Sector Conference and Saturday’s Special Congress:Left Caucus prior to the Special HE Sector Conference
Friday 6th December, 11am
The Bread Shed, Flour & Flagon, Grosvenor Street, M1
… March for Planet, Pay & Pensions
Fight for a future! • Support the university strikes!
Solidarity with School Student Climate Strike
Demonstrate: Friday 29 November 2019
Assemble: 11am Malet Street, London WC1E 7HY
March: 12 noon to parliament
Rally: 2pm Westminster Central Hall SW1H 9NH
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