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Resistance to cuts 

Stop the cuts! (Uni of Sussex) 
Campaign opposing cuts at Sussex university that include 115 redundancies. The website also has links to almost a dozen smaller campaign groups. The UCU branch campaign page is here.

Save the University of Gloucestershire
Effort by education workers to publicise the staff and student response to management strategy at University of Gloucestershire.

Save London Met
Campaign against plans at London Metropolitan University that included 550 redundancies, outsourcing and privatisation of in-house services, and attacks on union reps.

Leeds UCU
News and advice from UCU at the university of Leeds, where massive cuts have been announced recently.

Oppose LCC redundancies
Independent student movement opposing the planned course closures and staff redundancies at the London College of Communication.

Keep Sociology at Birmingham
Fights the proposed closure of the Sociology department at the university of Birmingham

Manchester For Jobs & Education
Facebook group to fight 127 Job Cuts at Manchester Metropolitan University

 

Information Resources

Education news (libcom)
Articles on libcom.org about the education sector

The Times Educational Supplement
Teaching jobs and resources.

Times Higher Education
Education news, resources and university jobs for the academic world

Guardian Education
Mainstream news stories about education

Trade unions

University and College Union
Trade union for academics in further and higher education in the UK.

UNISON
The UK public sector trade union.

UNITE
The largets union in the UK, resulting from the merger of Amicus and the T&G.

Defend Higher Education
GMB, EIS, UCU, Unison and Unite come together under the slogan '5 unions one demand'.


Education workers and student groups


Workplace: A Journal for Academic Labor
Journal by a collective of scholars promoting a new dignity in academic work. Contributions are aimed at higher education workplace activism and dialogue on all issues of academic labor.

IWW Education
Education workers who are members of the Industrial Workers of the World in the UK, which aims to form grassroots and democratic unions on an industrial basis.

Autonomous Student Network
Facebook group for anti-authoritarian groups and individuals in UK universities and colleges, aiming to build solidarity and grassroots power in campuses, communities and workplaces.

Edu-factory
Two-year old transnational project that wants to interrogate the statement "As once was the factory, so now is the university". Also has good coverage of ongoing university occupations.

FREEmary
Autonomous students group at Queen Mary university

 

Solidarity Federation and anarcho-syndicalism Resources

www.solfed.org.uk
National website of the Solidarity Federation.

Catalyst
Freesheet of the Solidarity Federation - contact us if you want a copy, or if you want to distro where you are.

Direct Action
Quarterly magazine of the Solidarity Federation.

SLSF
The local branch of the Solidarity Federation in South London.

SelfEd
Self education course on the history of the working-class movement, produced by SF.

Education Worker Network
An industrial network of SF members working in the education sector.

International Workers Association (IWA-AIT)
The Solidarity Federation is a member section of the International Workers Association (IWA-AIT)

The Anarcho-Syndicalist Thought of Rudolf Rocker
Site archiving the writings of the anarcho-syndicalist Rudolf Rocker (1873 - 1958)

Anarcho-Syndicalism 101
Web archive of  theoretical and historical texts, articles, image and mp3 files, cultural items and outreach material related to libertarian class struggle.

Libcom anarcho-syndicalism
Articles about anarcho-syndicalism in the Libcom.org library

A short history of British anarcho-syndicalism
The history of anarcho-syndicalism, which has been a tendency within the workers movement in Britain since the end of the 19th century. (SolFed 2006) 

Libertarian Education Resources

 Libcom Education Library

Why Libertarian Education?

Paideia: 24 Years of Anarchist Education in South-West Spain

Modern School

Anarchy in the Classroom

Liberation of Learning

Activist Teacher Blog

David Gribbles' Home Page

 

 

Last Updated ( Friday, 25 December 2009 )
 

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