Dozens of staff stood up and displayed these signs at the beginning of today’s address by the VC to demonstrate their lack of confidence in him and his ability to impose such devastating staff cuts across the university.

Very proud of my UCU branch for its 15 days of strike action! We stand firm and are planning for further action to force Leicester University to retreat from job cuts. Watch this space for details of a national demonstration in Leicester on 12 November.

Day 13 of strike action at the University of Leicester. Still going strong.

Day 12 of strike action, and a teach-out by our magnificent colleagues in Geography, Geology & the Environment.

Heading in to negotiations on day ten of strike action at the University of Leicester. This is my negotiating team.

Palestine teach-out on the picket line today as part of the national day of action.

Day seven of our UCU strike. A teach-out, from our at-risk Modern Languages colleagues at the University of Leicester.

Teach-out on strikes in the ancient Greek and Roman world on our picket line this morning.

Excellent piece on our strike in the Leicester Mercury. www.leicestermercury.co.uk/news/leicest...

Nice to have our local MP, Shockat Adam, visit our picket line this morning. We really appreciate his support on this the third day of our strike action.

Day two. UCU's strike at Leicester University.

Fantastic turnout of staff and students for the first day of our strike against redundancies.

A great turnout to our amazing rally today, with emotional speeches and incredible support from students, staff, and trade unions.

Superb Rally Against Redundancies at the University of Leicester, with hundreds of staff, students and supporters. @leicesterucu.bsky.social begins its strike on Monday.

Our friends at @leicesterucu.bsky.social are holding a rally tomorrow at 1pm. All DMU UCU members who are in the area, please consider stopping by to show solidarity!

Ahead of @leicesterucu.bsky.social striking from 29/9-17/10 we are at the freshers fair to talk to our students to explain why we are striking and ask them to support us to protect education at Leicester.

Leicester UCU will be on strike from Monday 29 September until Friday 17 October.

Enormously proud of my UCU branch for voting to take action to stop redundancies.

Strike ballot, posted.

I wrote a piece in response to recent articles in Jacobin, by Hanna Goldberg and others, on Mike Kidron and the theory of the permanent arms economy. Sadly, Jacobin weren't interested, but you can read it here: www.researchgate.net/publication/...

Indicative ballot results are out! Click here for more about our dispute: www.uculeicester.org.uk/appeal-to-co...

One of my analyses of the UK strike wave a couple of years back, from the ISJ, has been translated into Spanish (with a new introduction). www.laizquierdadiario.com/La-vacilante...

During today's EGM the branch voted unanimously to request an industrial action ballot that would allow us to strike at the beginning of the next academic year. #joinaunion

Way passed the threshold, #LincolnUCU members have smashed it! Unless #LincolnUniversity rule out #compulsoryredundancies, we will strike!

LUCU branch members, check your email!

UCU Leicester is alarmed to hear that the above areas have been selected for “pre-change” engagement. Read our full response to the announcement here - www.uculeicester.org.uk/the-fight-to... Join a Union. Strength in numbers ✊

Alasdair MacIntyre died yesterday. He's famous as the author of After Virtue, an important work of moral philosophy. But he was at one time among my illustrious predecessors as an editor of International Socialism. Some of his Marxist writings are here: www.marxists.org/history/etol...

📣‼️THIS THURSDAY‼️📣 All Leicester UCU members are invited to our EGM! 🗓Thursday 22 May 🔗Teams link in email ⏰11-12 Turn up, listen & share your views. This is your chance to have your say, do not miss it!

My article on the problem of cadrisation from the forthcoming spring issue of International Socialism, "Cadrisation: building a party of organic intellectuals", isj.org.uk/cadrisation/ (Available as a PDF here: www.researchgate.net/publication/... )

An important article on Syria by Anne Alexander from the forthcoming spring ISJ. isj.org.uk/state-syria/

Sascha Radl on Germany from the forthcoming spring ISJ. isj.org.uk/polycrisis-a...

My interview with Choi Il-bung on the political struggle in South Korea. isj.org.uk/south-korea/

A couple of the workshops at the We Demand Change summit in London, on Militarism and on Austerity. It's a huge event, in the thousands, and refreshingly open in discussing how best to build resistance.

🚀 Just launched: Marxism Festival 2025 A festival of socialist ideas with a line up including: • Jeremy Corbyn • Judith Butler • Ghada Karmi • Anne Alexander • Tariq Ali • Ilan Pappè • Samira Ali • Alex Callinicos + many more! 🗓️ 3rd - 6th July 📍 London ➡️ Earlybird tickets & info: bit.ly/marxism25

Our statement on academic promotions at the university:

My analysis from the forthcoming winter 2025 International Socialism. isj.org.uk/the-late-lat...