Why the UCU Strike Matters
Workers on strike in UK universities said no to a bad deal yesterday — and they’re prepared for the long haul.
5 Articles by: Steven Parfitt
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.
Lecturers on Strike
University lecturers in the UK will walk off tomorrow in the largest-ever strike called in British higher education.
The Centrist Suicide Note
Jeremy Corbyn’s recent success has finally deflated New Labour’s favorite boogeyman: Michael Foot’s 1983 general election defeat.
Giving up on Godwin’s Law
Today’s tumultuous political environment resembles the Gilded Age more than the 1930s.
Labour’s Witch Hunt
Labour Party elites aren’t really worried about Trotskyists infiltrating the party — they’re afraid of grassroots democracy.