NEU conference 2025
Three articles produced by rs21 NEU members for distribution at the education union annual conference
Commodifying mental health: apps, care and profitability
We look at the unnerving business models behind mental health apps.
Learning from the Struggle: Tenants Fight Evictions in Lambeth
The Homes for Lambeth Tenants campaign is organising and fighting back against the threat of evictions
University crisis – Dundee UCU fights back
How the UCU strike in the face of the threat of massive job losses at Dundee University has shifted the agenda
The Green Paper: a final rollout of the workfare state
A detailed analysis of the green paper which is all about workfare not welfare.
Labour – war hawks
Trumpeting the military is a distraction from Labour’s policies to deepen oppression and exploitation.
10 ways you can fight the disability benefits cuts
Ten ideas for ways to oppose Labour’s cuts to disabled people’s benefits
Why we need a maximum rent
The government says they need to cut spending – so let’s stop this £35 billion handout to landlords.
Why is homelessness spending not working?
Billions are wasted on landlord profits so what can be done different?
London housing crisis – Peckham fights back
Peckham protesters are standing up to one of London’s biggest housing developers
Higher education in crisis – what now for UCU?
As massive cuts and redundancies are threatened across the university sector – how can we build the fightback?
Homelessness – out of sight, out of mind?
A report of the eviction of the residents of the tent camp in St Peter’s square in Manchester.
The right to be an addict
Addiction isn’t the problem—criminalisation is. To end the crisis, we must abolish prisons, policing, and the system that fuels suffering.
What trade unionism? A transport strike case study
A case study of a dispute which illustrates the impact of different models of trade unionism and some of the challenges facing workplace activists.
Trans youth fight back: an interview with Trans Kids Deserve Better
The NHS, the Department of Education, and youth organising for trans liberation.
New circuitries of apartheid: politically analysing hostile technology
The extractive circuits of imperialism under the tech-economy’s hype and bluster.
Greater Manchester mental health early intervention service strike
Video report from the Greater Manchester mental health early intervention service strike picket line
University fees crisis
UCU members explain the challenges of organising in the face of the market-driven crisis affecting education, which affects students and university workers alike.
Rent hikes won’t fix the housing crisis
The new Labour government has made big announcements on housing policy, but there’s very little there to benefit tenants.
Teacher and support staff pay deals: the questions we need to ask
The questions we need to ask about the teacher and support staff pay deals in England
Rachel Reeves and the ‘maxed out credit card’
Kate Deer takes a critical look at the new government’s claims that Britain has ‘maxed out its credit card’.
Resisting Israeli scholasticide and academic apartheid – interview with Maya Wind
Israel’s genocidal war is massacring Palestinians and destroying their infrastructure, in particular, targeting Palestinian educational institutions
Report from the 2024 UCU Congress
rs21 members in UCU report on the recent Congress of the Further and Higher Education workers union
Cost of greed crisis still hitting Edinburgh
A community worker in Edinburgh surveys the inequality in their city.
Rent caps lifted for Scotland’s private tenants: organising after defeat
What lessons can be learned in Scotland’s tenant movement?
Why cutting welfare hurts non-claimants
The Tories are proposing yet more attacks on welfare benefits, and on sick and disabled people – and Labour’s obsession with ‘hard working families’ plays up to their divisive rhetoric. Ian Allininson argues that cuts to welfare are intended to lower wages.
Resist Sunak’s demonisation of disabled people
An analysis of how new governmental measures continue to demonise and punish disabled people.
Teachers’ union conference battles over pay strikes
Palestine, pay cuts and protest: NEU activists challenge the union’s bureaucracy in the face of another expected real terms pay cut.
Interview | Empire of Normality
Hazel Croft talks to author Robert Chapman about their new book and discusses neurodiversity and how we can challenge the capitalist logics of ‘normality’.