
Turning the War in Our Favor
The UK university lecturers’ strike is over, but their struggle isn’t.
Steven Parfitt is a historian at Loughborough University specializing in British, American, and global labour and social history. He is the author of the recent book, Knights Across the Atlantic: The Knights of Labor in Britain and Ireland.
The UK university lecturers’ strike is over, but their struggle isn’t.
The UK university strike has put management on the defensive. Now UCU members will have to decide what counts as a victory.
Workers on strike in UK universities said no to a bad deal yesterday — and they’re prepared for the long haul.
University lecturers in the UK will walk off tomorrow in the largest-ever strike called in British higher education.
Jeremy Corbyn’s recent success has finally deflated New Labour’s favorite boogeyman: Michael Foot’s 1983 general election defeat.
Today’s tumultuous political environment resembles the Gilded Age more than the 1930s.
Labour Party elites aren’t really worried about Trotskyists infiltrating the party — they’re afraid of grassroots democracy.