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UCU campaign 2019-20 - four fights support strike

University workers keeping strong in the face of attacks on many fronts

12 March 2020
Posted by W

Just at the time that Coronavirus has officially reached pandemic proportions, a good period of strike action of University and College Union (UCU) members is…

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UCU pension axed poster 2018

University pensions post-strike ballot result is a poor deal for workers

4 May 2018
Posted by W

After several weeks of impressive and well-supported strike action in UK Universities over pensions, taken by a record number of members of the University and…

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still striking dogsondemos ucu uss

Solid and well supported strike action in Higher Education continues over pensions

8 March 2018
Posted by W

The University and College Union’s industrial action over pensions today (8th March 2018) completed 10 days of well attended picket lines by lecturers, researchers, admin…

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UCU universities pensions strike UK

University pensions industrial action to begin on 22nd February 2018

17 February 2018
Posted by W

Teaching, research and some admin staff in the old ‘pre-1992’ universities are poised to take a lengthy 14 days of strike action over 4 weeks…

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Photo of Demo about academic sackings in Turkey Feb 2017

Solidarity demo arrestees in Turkey – started hunger strike in custody on 24th May 2017 – now released

26 May 2017
Posted by W

Report about comrades arrested on a solidarity demo who were on hunger strike in Turkey since May 24th, 2017, but were released a few days later. The demo was in support of 2 academics who are themselves on hunger strike due to their sacking after the post-coup decree ordered by Erdogan. Photo is of protests following sackings in Feb 2017.

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Six Reasons the Higher Education Green Paper Sucks

Six Reasons the Higher Education Green Paper Sucks

6 November 2015
Posted by AFed

The Higher Education green paper came out today and it’s fucking catastrophic for anyone wanting to learn. Here are six reasons why:

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Blog archive of interesting articles (2009 onwards)

Blog archive of interesting articles (2009 onwards)

2 April 2013
Posted by AFed

Read AF recent views and discussion articles relating to Austerity, Education, Welfare, Anarchafeminism, LGBTQ, Anti-racism, Environment. See our blog for additional articles on war, prisons…

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Anarchist teacher perspective on strikes

Anarchist teacher perspective on strikes

29 September 2011
Posted by AFed

By an AF member, published in Freedom, vol. 72 no. 16. http://www.freedompress.org.uk/news/2011/09/27/june-30th-an-anarchist-teacher%E2%80%99s-perspective/ With the up and coming Nov 30th general public sector workers strike and…

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Interview with an anarchist student occupier at Sheffield University

Interview with an anarchist student occupier at Sheffield University

24 November 2010
Posted by AFed

This article comes from The Fargate Speaker, one of the many local AFed blogs that you can see there in the blogroll on the right.

Interview with an anarchist student occupier at Sheffield University

Mark is a third year Biology student studying at Sheffield University and a member of the Anarchist Federation. He is one among many students currently occupying the Hicks Building on Sheffield University campus. The views expressed in the interview should be considered his alone and not that of the occupation’s general assembly.

–          Why are you occupying the Hicks building today?

We are occupying for a variety of reasons but generally around the common purpose of being against the cuts in this university, to other universities and to education in general. Particularly we want to demonstrate against the proposed rise in tuition fees and the ongoing privatisation of higher education. However, we are also tying our actions to a wider struggle against austerity measures and cuts. So our occupation is about more than just education cuts but this is currently our primary focus.

–          What has been the reaction of University security/the police so far?

They haven’t taken any action to stop us occupying yet but they have told us after 6pm that everyone who is leaving won’t be able to return. This will presumably be until tomorrow morning. It might open up again after 8am. We haven’t had any major trouble so far but police have been inside to observe what was going on. It should be stated thought that we have no intention of damaging university property. This is a peaceful occupation.

–          Why should the occupation be supported?

Because the tactic of occupation, as opposed to lobbying or simply asking political representatives to make changes for us, is a tactic that has been historically successful. Clegg and his broken promise to scrap tuition fees is just one example, among many, that politicians cannot be trusted to make decisions for us. Direct action puts a lot more pressure on university management and by extension government ministers to act.

Aside from the past success of these kinds of tactics what we are fighting for is essentially access to education for everybody regardless of income. We also recognise that there is a much wider struggle beyond simply what is happening to education right now. We need to extend these tactics into all of these areas where we are currently under attack.  This is a fight that all of us should be taking on and working in solidarity with each other.

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Working in Universities, Living With the Axe

Working in Universities, Living With the Axe

15 November 2010
Posted by AFed

Working in Universities, Living With the Axe [Also print out joint AF/Solfed student and workers bulletin given out on the demo that included this article]…

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