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After the HE ballot results – what next? The Higher Education ballot results are out. Despite hard and consistent work by reps and activists in branches, and a campaign from HQ, unfortunately we failed to get over the 50% threshold. The r…

Comrades! We must fight! Reballot and HESC NOW @ucu.org.uk

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After the HE ballot results – what next? The Higher Education ballot results are out. Despite hard and consistent work by reps and activists in branches, and a campaign from HQ, unfortunately we failed to get over the 50% threshold. The r…

Comrades! We must fight! Reballot and HESC NOW @ucu.org.uk

uculeft.org/after-the-he...

Battle for future of Your Party as leadership witch-hunts left The Your Party bureaucracy has launched a witch-hunt of socialists—replicating the worst traditions of the Labour Party it promised to replace. The fight is on at the founding conference in Liverpool ...

socialistworker.co.uk/your-party/b...

@chondrogianni.bsky.social

Organising to Win in Post-16 Education and Beyond: Unity & Solidarity not Warfare & Division. Sunday 2nd November11 – 12.30 public meeting, followed by UCU Left AGM 12.30 – 1pm Zoom:  Speakers:Maria Chondrogianni, UCU PresidentSerafeim Rizos, Greek trade unionists and teacher in…

THIS SUNDAY 2 November 11-12.30 via Zoom: Organising to Win in Post-16 Education and Beyond: Unity & Solidarity not Warfare & Division.

Followed by UCU Left AGM 12.30.

Links below:

uculeft.org/organising-t...

Zarah Sultana says join Your Party, but fight to shape it Zarah Sultana spoke at a 500-strong meeting after a week of divisions that threatened the whole Your Party project

Zarah Sultana says join Your Party, but fight to shape it

👇She spoke at a 500-strong meeting after a week of divisions that threatened the whole Your Party project

socialistworker.co.uk/news/zarah-s...

Understanding the Permanent Arms Economy: an introduction to the political economy of Michael Kidron • International Socialism Capitalism and war have always been profoundly connected. Max Weber noted the important role that financing the wars of European states played in the development of early modern capitalism.1 The bond ...

My article on Michael Kidron, theorist of the permanent arms economy, in the latest issue of International Socialism. isj.org.uk/kidron-polit...

Comrades in the UCU Solidarity Movement have arrived on BlueSky! 🥊

Comrade Christina! We need to:

- stop redudancies in the HE sector
- save our casualised staff

It worked at Newcastle and Dundee, let's organise nationally for the same win!

VOTE YES!

The UK HE Pay and Redundancies Campaign and Local Fights Against Job Losses The UK-wide ballot on pay and redundancies was announced this week. Ballot papers will go out on 20 October. All five trade unions are in dispute, and, in an unprecedented step, the unions are coor…

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What is going on in Your Party? A row in the leadership of Your Party threatens the whole project—but building an insurgent left alternative remains the priority.

Excellent response to the YP chaos by @tomashtengely.bsky.social socialistworker.co.uk/news/what-is...

Bangor University staff in vice chancellor vote of no confidence UCU union members at Bangor University passed a motion of no confidence due to staff and budget cuts.

A state of emergency in Welsh and UK higher education

A reminder to members to vote in the indicative ballot by October 3rd

Comrades! This casual vacancy election closes tomorrow.

Vote for Bee Hughes as UK-elected representative for HE if you have not yet done so. For a fighting, member-led union #ucu

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✊ “It’s time to build an education service for the many, not the few, not just the privileged.”

- UCU president Maria Chondrogianni at #TUC2025, moving our motion for a fully funded national education service.

✅ Delegates backed the motion unanimously.

At #TUC2025, UCU President Maria Chondragianni challenged Labour on higher education:

“The Tories introduced a failed, marketised model across education. This has been disastrous.”

✊ We will keep holding Labour to account.
#ucu #WeAreTheUniversity

Comrades! This casual vacancy election closes tomorrow.

Vote for Bee Hughes as UK-elected representative for HE if you have not yet done so. For a fighting, member-led union #ucu

Our ballot to renew our ability to take industrial action at the University of Dundee opens today.

Melissa D’Ascenzio, Dundee University UCU branch co-president, said: “The university’s students and staff have been badly let down.
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Graphic with details of counter protest as included in main text, and photo of a man resembling Jesus holding a placard that says I was a stranger and ye took me in

📣 All out! Defend refugees at the Cladhan Hotel and support #Falkirk anti-racists this Sun 7th Sept. We need to keep up the fight and let the far-right know they are not welcome!

#RefugeesWelcome

📣 Sun 7th Sept, 11am
📍Assemble Cladhan Hotel, Falkirk, FK1 1UF

Defend Our Juries figures arrested in escalation of state repression - Socialist Worker Five members were arrested in a dawn raid on Tuesday morning

Defend Our Juries figures arrested in escalation of state repression

👇A Statement released by the group says “This level of political repression is not what we expect in a democracy"

socialistworker.co.uk/news/defend-...

Zack Polanski elected Green Party leader in landslide victory Polanski received 20,411 votes from the party membership, while Ellie Chowns and Adrian Ramsay’s campaign received just 3,705 votes

socialistworker.co.uk/news/zack-po...

Home Office tells foreign students they will be removed if they overstay visas About 130,000 to be contacted for first time in response to ‘alarming’ spike in numbers claiming asylum

This is completely unacceptable intimidation. Every visa holder is already nervous about their visa, every university. is already draconian about visa compliance. This is just harming students to score headline points with the far right. Stop playing games with our students.

Anti-racists ‘won’t be divided by fascists’ at refugee hotel protests A round-up of the far right protests and the counter-demonstrations to them, which took place across Britain

Anti-racists ‘won’t be divided by fascists’ at refugee hotel protests

👇A round-up of the far right protests and the counter-demonstrations to them, which took place across Britain

socialistworker.co.uk/anti-racism/...

Bee Hughes (Liverpool John Moores University)

Please vote for @beehughes.bsky.social in the current casual vacancy elections on UCU HEC. For a member-led, fighting union.

www.ucu.org.uk/article/1411...

@ducuuo.bsky.social Dundee University plan to cut 632FTE collapses @ucu.org.uk @uculeft.bsky.social
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One of the funniest pieces of nonsense I've read in a long time about the future for HE. The market solution is:
"... offering more flexible courses, and connecting with the over-50s who never attended university but have money to spare."
@ucu.org.uk @uculeft.bsky.social @ducuuo.bsky.social

My full election statement: blogs.brighton.ac.uk/ucu/2025/01/...

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