Ten Reasons to Vote Yes in the @ucu.org.uk ballot 1⃣ 𝗜𝘁 𝗶𝘀 𝗮 𝘃𝗼𝘁𝗲 𝗮𝗴𝗮𝗶𝗻𝘀𝘁 𝗽𝗮𝘆 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗷𝗼𝗯 𝗰𝘂𝘁𝘀 A YES vote strengthens the hand of your elected negotiators and your union in the face of a set of employers making massive cuts in pay and jobs.

My employer has initiated redundancy proceedings. It proposes to axe up to 70 roles (including both academic and professional services roles). I'd like to urge any colleagues on here to vote in both EIS ballots (the local and sector wide ballots). Vote early and vote for strikes. #eis

How absolutely wonderful is this??

The stakes are too high revsoc21.uk/2025/09/18/y...

Worrying scenes in Falkirk today. Egged on by the far right, a few hundred people turned up to protest against a so-called "migrant hotel". We joined the residents of Falkirk, fellow trade unionists and anti-racists in saying "refugees are welcome here." #FalkirkAgainstRacism #StandUpToRacism

Today I joined a new political party. The party, whose name is still to be decided, will offer an anti-war and socially just (socialist) alternative to mainstream political parties. Sound interesting? Sign up today.

According to this armed officer in Kent, simply holding a Palestine flag and displaying 'Free Gaza' and 'Israel is committing Genocide' is possible grounds for arrest for supporting Palestine Action (and for unlawfully taking personal details)

Breaking news – Redundancy notice (Section 188) removed The University of Dundee has confirmed that the section 188 letter issued in March 2025 has been formally withdrawn! This is a direct result of the industrial action we took and the action we threatened. This is our victory! 1/3

Kneecap at Glastonbury don't RT they are supposed to be terrorists or something.

Only 4 days until the ULA consultative ballot on pay opens. On Monday: check your inbox, use your vote and demand more than 1.4! #Fairpaytoday #rejectthepayoffer

STRIKE ACTION WORKS! Massive congratulations and continuing solidarity to @newcastleucu.bsky.social.

You can repair a plane. You can replace a broken window. But you can’t bring back the dead. We must defend the right to protest. Solidarity with Palestine Action 🇵🇸

To end capitalism we need revolution, and to win revolution we need a revolutionary organisation. Developing that requires political clarity - on which ideas are most effective, through debate and practice. A group of rs21 members respond to Marxist Unity Caucus. revsoc21.uk/2025/06/19/h...

Motion 56 is moved by first-time speaker Sharon Iddir. She asks delegates to stand and take a moment's silence to remember our friends and colleagues in Gaza. "We'll continue to fight, we're with the people of Gaza, and we care." #EISAGM25

Proud to vote in solidarity with all transgender and non-binary people at #EISAGM25 www.eis.org.uk/eis-agm-2025...

Go out and spread the word that refugees and migrants are welcome here! Farage isn't! says Andrew Fullwood. Motion 45 is carried, and we move swiftly onto motion 46 which is moved by Alison Beattie. #EISAGM25

#EISAGM25 Motion 44 is seconded by Nick Cimini, "Education is a social good, it is not a commodity. Please support the motion." Following a show of hands, the motion is carried.

@nickcimini.bsky.social speaks in support of Motion 44.

Teachers and lecturers at #EISAGM25 standing up for Palestine

Nick Cimini highlights pay cuts and the threats of redundancy currently faced by lecturers in the HE sector. What will the Scottish Government do to protect staff and students, to restore lost pay, and to ensure that Scotland continues to have a world class education system?

I'm at the #EISAGM25. Standing up for quality education. @eisunion.bsky.social

Moving towards a trade dispute with the Secretary of State for Education! UCU Congress voted to support a national trade dispute with the government over the Higher Education funding crisis. Motion & further info: lu.ma/a0vv0sjb?tk=... JOIN to discuss next steps 3 June, 6pm: lu.ma/zs6bklhz 🧵

Popular protests defeated an attempted coup last year. Yet, with an election in ten days, South Korea seems set to alternate between governments of the far right and the neoliberal centre, while serious social problems fuel the growth of conservative social movements. revsoc21.uk/2025/05/24/s...

On strike with @sheffielducu.bsky.social and joined the trans solidarity picket to protest the recent transphobic supreme court ruling and EHRC update #tradeunionists4transrights

This is a brilliant piece in Spectre that criticises recent examples of pseodo-Marxist transphobia spectrejournal.com/against-bad-...

Congratulations to Stella Maris, Rector of St Andrews, who has won her appeal against dismissal from the governing body: a vindication of her, and anyone's, right to condemn genocide and apartheid. www.thecourier.co.uk/fp/politics/...

Me for @rs21.bsky.social on the horrors of the Supreme Court decision, how the EHRC has talked itself seemingly supporting an employment bans on trans people, and on resistance revsoc21.uk/2025/04/28/t... Thanks to @petecannell.bsky.social, @colinwlondon.bsky.social & everyone who helped with it

In a guest post on David Renton's blog I offer an analysis of the last few months of Trump and Starmer, the rise of the far right and the need for a response from the left in Britain that breaks with business as usual.

Colin Wilson looks at the long-term issues underlying Trump’s Ukraine policy, and argues that the left must side with neither imperialist camp. revsoc21.uk/2025/03/11/t...

@ducuuo.bsky.social #SaveDundeeUni

A little something I wrote for @rs21.bsky.social about the current state of play in #UCU and the HE sector. revsoc21.uk/2025/02/28/h...

The future of HE and the future of UCU: my thoughts as a presidential candidate rhiannonforucuvp.wordpress.com/2024/12/18/t...

I’m standing for President of UCU Scotland. Please consider voting for me and for others I list. In the current crisis, with challenges around cuts and redundancies affecting every branch directly or indirectly, it is more important than ever that we fight back together ….. 1/2

Vice-chancellors are addicted to year-on-year cycles of redundancies. But you cannot cut your way to growth. Universities must listen to UCU, invest in staff & build student provision. If they refuse, they pave the way for significant industrial unrest.

Is Trump a fascist? @colinwlondon.bsky.social continues the discussion on the @rs21.bsky.social website

Jamie Allinson of Salvage discusses the dynamics of the fall of Assad and what next for Syria: revsoc21.uk/2024/12/11/v...

To all the analysts jumping on here to warn about tomorrow, Syrians are ten steps ahead of you. Have some basic human empathy and let those celebrating the release of the unjustly detained, the reuniting of families, the hopes of return, and the end of a brutal regime do so in peace.

Solidarity with @uniteucu.bsky.social whose strike begins today #ReclaimUCU #JobsPayConditions

"Once again dominant ‘left’ narratives seek to deny Syrians any agency and view all events through a never-changing geo-political lens." www.newarab.com/opinion/our-...

All three campus unions (UCU, UNISON, Unite) are coming together to host a Townhall Meeting to provide a platform for open discussion and to understand the feelings and concerns of all staff regarding the current financial and organisational situation at the University of Dundee.

Anti-terror powers have intensified against Palestine activists and more recently against Kurdish activists, with raids, detentions, and restrictions imposed. revsoc21.uk/2024/12/07/p...

Like many other European social democratic parties, Labour is moving right on immigration, certainly driven by the recent success of Reform. We have researched this question for years now. There is an abundance of evidence of why this isn't a good strategy. A thread summarizing some of our research

A message to Chris Murray MP. Means-tested benefits are something that the trade union and labour movement fought to see an end to, and we have not given up that fight. Cutting the winter fuel allowance will drive pensioners into fuel poverty and could kill 4000 people.

Kneecap have taken on the UK government and won. Great stuff! "Group member JJ Ó Dochartaigh, better known as DJ Próvaí, arrived at the court in a repurposed RUC Land Rover flying Irish and Palestinian flags." - on.ft.com/3OrSZXw via @FT

EIS members at Edinburgh Napier calling for a ceasefire in Gaza #EIS #Ceasefire #EdinburghNapierUniversity

On the history of 1970s British black militants and the revolutionary left, on the @rs21.bsky.social website.

Confirmed! Wide ranging strike with three key demands: 1) respecting right to protest 2) institution of an independent and democratic ethics review board 3) cessation of all ties with Israel in the meanwhile. Unprecedented shop action in NL. Lets go comrades!

Ye gods, all the finance departments are finalising their annual accounts this week, aren’t they? What a headspinning week. And it’s only Tuesday…

Party time!

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