‘Never Cross A Picket Line’ – Three Songs of Solidarity and Struggle
Words by Ryan Bridgewater As our lecturers go on strike from Monday to defend their pensions, now is the perfect time to reflect on the history of workers’ and trade…
Pupils protest over climate change in Brighton
School children and students took to the streets of Brighton to protest against the Government’s handling of climate change last Friday, February 15. The event, which is part of a…
UCU plan ‘maximum disruption to forthcoming exams’ as talks fail to find resolution
Talks to resolve the dispute over pensions for University staff at a national level have so far failed to reach a resolution, with a further 14 days of strike action…
Staff and students frozen out: VC goes it alone in UCU pension negotiation
The Vice Chancellor Adam Tickell has frozen out staff and students in negotiations on pensions as he becomes the only VC to negotiate on behalf of Universities UK (UUK). While…
U.S.S.U-Turn: 54 students decide stance for 17,000
On Monday 19th February, the Students’ Union Council will vote on whether or not to support the national Univerity and College Union (UCU) strike action that is going to occur…
Students’ Union election week pushed back
Voting to elect new Full-Time and Part-Time Officers to the Students’ Union has been delayed by one week. Elections were due to take place between 12th-16th March, but will now…
“Indefinite rent strike” announced for Kings Road accommodation
University of Sussex students have declared an “indefinite rent strike”, in protest at rent prices for what they call “dilapidated and unsanitary conditions” in off-campus university accommodation. Supported by the…
Protest is education not indoctrination
At the Women’s March in London it was a single child who stuck in my mind: a little boy who could have been hardly older than eight. He saw the…
Sussex and Brighton students unite to support junior doctors
A joint campaign has recently been set up by Sussex and Brighton University students to support junior doctors in their quarrel with the Government over contract changes. Health Secretary Jeremy…
Staff and students strike accord
It shouldn’t surprise me that students can be selfish people, and yet, on Wednesday, I was amazed at how many students strolled right past the picket lines. Some of them…
Management gets heavy-handed
Those of you that noticed the fleet of riot vans and police cars surrounding Sussex House last Thursday may have wondered if some disastrous or imminent threat had just been…
The movement must box-clever
Following the occupation at Sussex House, in which a few senior members of staff effectively held their own occupation within that building by refusing to leave without police escort, a…
Sussex staff set terms for first round of industrial strike action
The University and College Union (UCU) at the University of Sussex announced last week following an Emergency General Meeting that they will go on strike this Thursday 18 March, and…
What next for Stop the Cuts? An open letter to the Stop the Cuts Campaign, from the Stop the Cuts Campaign
Fellow students, staff, and interested parties, We know the cuts are bad, we know they are only the beginning (a few more million next year, and after the election –…
Fight now or forever hold your peace
When you say cut-back, we say fight-back. And when we say fight-back we mean it, a mantra weightier than mere words. Words dance upon the paths of action and we…
Brighton binmen on strike
Refuse workers across Brighton and Hove voted almost unanimously for strike action to start this week. The 300 strong work force of binmen, streetsweepers and mechanics employed by Brighton and…
Pensions strike back on
Talks to resolve the pensions dispute between university management and support staff have broken down. Technical staff held their third day of strike action last Thursday in response.
Possible bus strike threatens rush hour
A possible bus drivers’ strike is on the cards after a dispute over Union representation. The GMB Union, has asked its 140 members within the Brighton and Hove Bus and…
Union says ‘start negotiating’ over pensions
Resistance from University likely to continue The students’ union has called on university management to start negotiating with support staff over pensions. Laura Tazzioli, USSU President, said the union would…
UNITE for the future
Last Friday 17 October saw UNITE’s second day of strike action. UNITE members include university technical, computing and estates staff. The union have been forced out on strike to protect…