Report from the #FeministPickets
Last week we republished the call from Women’s Strike Assembly for feminists to link up with the current higher education strikes. rs21 members report from the #FeministPickets
A crucial week for the university strikes
With negotiations reportedly going well, but the current wave of strikes ending alongside the climate strikes on Friday, rs21 members explain why this is a crucial week and explore some of the debates among strikers.
Feminists to the pickets!
The Women’s Strike Assembly are calling for feminists to link up with the current higher education strikes and organise feminist pickets on Monday 9 March 2020.
University strikes escalate from Monday
UCU and EIS members are briefly returning to work before escalating their strike on Monday. rs21 reports from the higher education strike around Britain.
University strikes resume: day 1
The latest wave of strikes for pensions, pay, equality and against casualization and unsafe workloads began today (20 February 2020). We bring you some initial reports.
Support the UK’s biggest ever HE strikes
From Thursday 20 February, workers across the higher education sector will be taking strike action over pensions, pay, equality, casualisation and workloads.
Tough lessons to learn
The struggle against worsening conditions and cuts in education continues. Andrew Stone, 6th form college teacher and District Secretary of Wandsworth NEU, writes in a personal capacity about an upcoming strike and a ballot in Tower Hamlets.
Labour’s plans on education are a step in the right direction
Vygotsky, who is a teacher in a school for pupils with special educational needs, reflects on Labour’s proposed changes to the education system and on her experiences canvassing.
Picket line conversations
A Unison member reflects on conversations on the picket-lines that offered a different vision about how universities could and should be run.
Our universities! Our planet!
The end of the first week of UCU strike action coincided with the latest climate strike on Friday 29 November. rs21 members report on pickets from around the country.
NHS and climate at the core of Labour manifesto #GE2019
The Labour Party manifesto focuses on healthcare and climate. It’s a step in the right direction on both counts, but doesn’t go far enough.
UCU strikes: a fighting start
Eight days of strikes got off to a confident start across sixty Higher Education institutions today.
Labour manifesto – what the grassroots membership demands
Hanna Gál reports on the campaigns of the grassroots Labour Party membership for a progressive election manifesto.
Education struggles in Greece
A struggle against neoliberal reforms to Higher Education in Greece has come to a head this week.
Striking together for Higher Education
The whys, whats and what nexts of the upcoming higher education strikes, which begin on 25 November.
Raising the rate of resistance
Educators in the sixth form sector prepare for 3 days of strike action over funding and pay beginning Thursday 17 October.
Review: Urban Warfare
Kate Bradley reviews Urban Warfare by Raquel Rolnik, an important investigation into how capitalism has shaped housing for its own ends
Homelessness: Rachmanism returns
As homelessness figures have risen yet again, Mitch Mitchell looks at the history of housing in the UK the post-war period.
SOAS in crisis: a year of struggles
Seth Uzman looks back over the struggles on campus at SOAS in the past academic year, and draws lessons for the higher education sector as a whole.
Grenfell: still mourning, still fighting
Friday 14 June 2019 marks the two-year anniversary of the Grenfell tower fire. The community will be marching in silence, as they have on the 14th day of every month since the fire.
EIS members in a combative mood
Teachers and lecturers in Scotland met at the EIS conference recently to review recent successes over pay and recruitment and to plan a strategy around the underfunding and overwork that still characterises the sector. Nick Cimini reports.
Big changes at UCU congress 2019
UCU Congress 2019 saw a left rank and file General Secretary elected, the right and the bureaucracy in retreat and determination to pursue the USS pensions dispute.
A gamer’s guide to social reproduction
Video games can be vehicles for a whole range of political ideas – and some can even help us explain social reproduction theory, argues Kate Bradley.
Battling for the education we need
An open letter about the state of education from concerned grandmother Kes Grant of the anti-academisation campaign John Roan Resists.
NEU battles ahead – report from NEU conference
The first NEU conference set an ambitious course for boycotts and strikes over primary school testing, funding and pay, report rs21 delegates.
Beyond taking sides on No Outsiders
To understand the controversy about LGBT lessons in schools, we need to understand the oppression of both LGBT people and the Muslim community.
Student bans and securitisation at KCL
Politically active students at KCL have been barred from entering campus without any justification. Read KCL Justice for Cleaners’ statement here!
Global youth strikers: declare a climate emergency
From Mauritius to Manchester, young people around the world walked out of their schools and colleges on Friday 15 March, demanding action on climate change.
Knife crime and the myth of the friendly copper
Mitch Mitchell argues that putting more police on the streets will not solve the problem of knife crime and will lead to more targeting of BAME youth.
How students supported the miners’ strike: an activist remembers
On 6 March 1984, the walkout at Cortonwood Colliery signalled the beginning of the 1984-85 miners’ strike. Colin Revolting remembers how he and his fellow students supported the miners.