Joseph Choonara

Going old school on the picket line this morning.

A mini opera on our picket line this morning.

Hundreds assembling for the national demo at Leicester over university job cuts.

This is tomorrow. Please come if you can!

Dozens of staff stood up and displayed these signs at the beginning of today’s address by the VC to demonstrate their lack of confidence in him and his ability to impose such devastating staff cuts across the university.

Very proud of my UCU branch for its 15 days of strike action! We stand firm and are planning for further action to force Leicester University to retreat from job cuts. Watch this space for details of a national demonstration in Leicester on 12 November.

Day 13 of strike action at the University of Leicester. Still going strong.

Day 12 of strike action, and a teach-out by our magnificent colleagues in Geography, Geology & the Environment.

Heading in to negotiations on day ten of strike action at the University of Leicester. This is my negotiating team.

Palestine teach-out on the picket line today as part of the national day of action.

Day seven of our UCU strike. A teach-out, from our at-risk Modern Languages colleagues at the University of Leicester.

Teach-out on strikes in the ancient Greek and Roman world on our picket line this morning.

Staff 'fight for future of university' amid threat to degrees Entire teaching areas face being cut

Excellent piece on our strike in the Leicester Mercury.

www.leicestermercury.co.uk/news/leicest...

Nice to have our local MP, Shockat Adam, visit our picket line this morning. We really appreciate his support on this the third day of our strike action.

Day two. UCU's strike at Leicester University.

Fantastic turnout of staff and students for the first day of our strike against redundancies.

A great turnout to our amazing rally today, with emotional speeches and incredible support from students, staff, and trade unions.

Superb Rally Against Redundancies at the University of Leicester, with hundreds of staff, students and supporters. @leicesterucu.bsky.social begins its strike on Monday.

Our friends at @leicesterucu.bsky.social are holding a rally tomorrow at 1pm. All DMU UCU members who are in the area, please consider stopping by to show solidarity!

Table with UCU posters and leaflets

Ahead of @leicesterucu.bsky.social striking from 29/9-17/10 we are at the freshers fair to talk to our students to explain why we are striking and ask them to support us to protect education at Leicester.

Leicester UCU will be on strike from Monday 29 September until Friday 17 October.

Enormously proud of my UCU branch for voting to take action to stop redundancies.

Strike ballot, posted.

(PDF) Kidron and the Permanent Arms Economy PDF | A short respond to recent writing on Mike Kidron and the Permanent Arms Economy in the US radical left publication Jacobin. | Find, read and cite all the research you need on ResearchGate

I wrote a piece in response to recent articles in Jacobin, by Hanna Goldberg and others, on Mike Kidron and the theory of the permanent arms economy. Sadly, Jacobin weren't interested, but you can read it here: www.researchgate.net/publication/...

Indicative ballot results are out!
Click here for more about our dispute: www.uculeicester.org.uk/appeal-to-co...

La vacilante recuperación del movimiento obrero británico A continuación presentamos la traducción al castellano del artículo de Joseph Choonara “The British labour movement's halting recovery” publicado en el número 178 de de la revista International Social...

One of my analyses of the UK strike wave a couple of years back, from the ISJ, has been translated into Spanish (with a new introduction).

www.laizquierdadiario.com/La-vacilante...

During today's EGM the branch voted unanimously to request an industrial action ballot that would allow us to strike at the beginning of the next academic year.
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