Analysis: How Striking Lecturers Won Their Students’ Support
Alessio Koliulis
On the final day of UCU strikes, academic Alessio Koliulis reflects on the rebuilding of staff-student solidarity.
Tag: marketisation
Opinion: Students’ Unions Are Demanding a Covid-19 Discount. They Should Be Demanding Much More
Sarah Cundy
By complaining to the manager, SUs are buying into the logic of marketisation and stifling more radical students' demands, argues Manchester University student Sarah Cundy.
Opinion: To Understand Why the NHS Is Struggling to Respond to Covid-19, We Must Look at Who Runs It
Jo Sutton-Klein
Coronavirus has highlighted the inertia of the NHS. This is not just down to incompetent yet powerful managers, writes doctor Jo Sutton-Klein, it is a problem with the very structures that govern our health service, impeding democracy and keeping frontline staff out of decision-making.
Opinion: Coronavirus Has Destroyed the NHS Internal Market Overnight, Proving That It Never Worked
Jo Sutton-Klein
Covid-19 has forced the government to make drastic changes to the fundamental structure of the NHS as, under pressure to meet the demands of a pandemic, the internal market has fallen apart overnight, writes junior doctor Jo Sutton-Klein. We must demand that changes made now stay in place after the coronavirus crisis.
Community Not Capital: Creating a Childcare System That Actually Works
Andrea Marie, Camille Barbagallo and Nadine Houghton
Mums for Corbyn activists explain how Jeremy Corbyn and the Labour party must seize the opportunity to propose a childcare system that addresses and meets the needs of mothers and their families.
“We Are Workers”: U.S. Graduate Student Workers Fight for Union Recognition
Grant Macdonald
Graduate student workers are fighting for union recognition. But universities are blocking their efforts, knowing that if they obstruct long enough, Donald Trump could rescue them from having to afford them their rights.