Manufacturing Consent for the Military: Labour’s plans for schools and universities - CONOR BOLLINS looks at the sinister moves to entice young people towards military and arms industry careers morningstaronline.co.uk/article/manu...

🚩"Manufacturing Consent for the Military: Labour’s plans for schools and universities." 🚩My piece for today's Morning Star: morningstaronline.co.uk/article/manu... 🚩@londonregioncnd.bsky.social @caatuk.bsky.social @stwc.bsky.social @mstaronline.bsky.social @forceswatch.bsky.social

Thanks to all our anti-nuclear allies who joined us outside Downing Street to call on Keir Starmer to rethink Britain's F-35A purchase. We'll be demonstrating against these nuke jets at RAF Marham on 28 February. Write to your MP, calling for an urgent debate: cnd.eaction.org.uk/StopBritains...

"It is absolutely critical that we rachet up the political pressure to make these world leaders — including the British government — step back from this nuclear escalation." CND's Sophie Bolt reacts to Trump's nuclear testing announcement: morningstaronline.co.uk/article/stop...

CND was delighted to be part of last night's screening of Hellfire: A Journey from Hiroshima. A special thanks to Queen Mary University of London for hosting and to the film experts who contributed to the discussion afterwards. Find more CND events: cnduk.org/events/

Today is the International Day for the Total Elimination of Nuclear Weapons. Britain should be marking it with ambitious steps to further the cause of nuclear disarmament. Instead, we see yet another breach of international law by Starmer. Read more: www.theguardian.com/world/2025/s...

UCU GS @drjogrady.bsky.social putting an end to weapons over wages at #TUC2025: “Our country is broken… yet billions for bombs. Cash found for weapons. No cash found for wages.” ✊ #WagesNotWeapons

British trade unionists, in a very significant vote, have backed a motion overturning previous support for the government’s military spending hikes. The #WagesNotWeapons motion passed by 2,871,000 votes to 2,291,000. Read more: cnduk.org/wages-not-we...

Great to see the arguments put forward in the Alternative Defence Review feautered in this trade union debate on increased military spending. If you're at TUC Congress, pick up your copy at the CND stall or read online: cnduk.org/adr/

Despite the British government's attempts to stifle and suppress peaceful protest, today saw yet another huge show of support for Palestine on the streets of London. This movement will not be silenced. We demand sanctions on genocidal Israel now!

We're here at the 30th national march for Palestine. If you're attending, come visit our stall at Russell Square and pick up one of our placards. #EndTheGenocide #StopStarvingGaza

Congratulations to all receiving results today. The hard work and effort of students, teachers and those supporting them should be commended.🙌

Asked about the biggest threats to the UK, cyber attacks top the poll, though the youngest adults are more likely to be worried about nuclear conflict with another country. A plurality think our defence spending is about right, though 26% say too little and 21% too much.

🌸In the run-up to Hiroshima Day 2025, we will be posting photos of our supporters wearing our NO MORE HIROSHIMAS t-shirt. 🌸Get yours to help spread this powerful message: cndukstore.com/no-more-hiro... 🌸Send us your photos and we’ll share those too! #NoMoreHiroshimas

"It is just a shame that Starmer has decided to make militarism and warmongering 'the fundamental organising principle of government' rather than the promotion of people’s health and wellbeing." morningstaronline.co.uk/article/stra...

"Conventional wisdom says it was necessary to drop the bomb...but extensive scholarly research in the US shows that this just wasn’t true." CND Vice-President Kate Hudson on the myths used to justify nuclear weapons from 1945 to today. #NeverAgain labouroutlook.org/2025/07/19/h...

A report and photo gallery of Wednesday's incredibly poweful event in Parliament on remembering Hiroshima and Nagasaki is now on our website. Thanks again to everyone who joined us and who contributed as guest speakers. #NeverAgain cnduk.org/no-more-hiro...

Powerful @cnduk.bsky.social event in Parliament this week marking the 80th anniversary of the bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Honoured to speak about the links between nuclear weapons, racism and imperialism and the continuing urgency of disarmament. #WelfareNotWarfare #NoMoreHiroshimas

We had a packed meeting in Parliament yesterday to hear about the humanitarian cost of nuclear war. A special thanks to our guest speakers: the South African High Commissioner to the UK, and Kyoko Gibson, a second-generation survivor of the Hiroshima bombing for her moving testimony. #NeverAgain

"Our shared cultural memory must be wearing exceedingly thin if we, as a society, are ready to accept our sons and daughters being shipped off to fight in another brutal and fruitless war" Check out this pertinent & powerful analysis by @conorbollins.bsky.social labouroutlook.org/2025/06/26/d...

“Do we want the future of our young people to be defined by nukes and NATO or good jobs and education?” SW London CND member @conorbollins.bsky.social explores Keir Starmer’s troubling military recruitment plans in this @LabourOutlook piece. #peacenotnukes labouroutlook.org/2025/06/26/d...

Our statement on the Labour government’s escalating authoritarian crackdown on the Palestine solidarity movement. We will not be silenced. We are the majority. We urge you to join us on the streets of London next Saturday (19 July) and march for Palestine.

“this [Labour] government is a genocide-facilitating, nuclear proliferator, that has abandoned its political and economic sovereignty to the whims of the leader of a rogue state. It’s time to build something better than this.” - Kate Hudson for @labouroutlook.bsky.social #peacenotnukes

“Thinking is suffocated when debates are prevented, lectures banned and exhibitions cancelled, when the police enter institutions of higher education and prosecutors are imposed to ensure orthodoxy. An oppressive atmosphere of suspicion and accusation has endangered freedom of speech.” - D. Fassin

In the wake of Starmer's military spending splurge, @conorbollins.bsky.social looks at Starmer's plans to recruit young people into the military - and why we must oppose them. "Educators, youth social care workers & parents should pay particular attention" labouroutlook.org/2025/06/26/d...

Great piece of analysis from @camerongriffiths.bsky.social, from UEA IR, on the situation in Iran.

✊🥂Huge congratulations to the whole @newcastleucu.bsky.social membership and team. Compulsory redundancies withdrawn. Sends a message to university management everywhere. Just shows what you can do with organisation, solidarity, and right on your side.

Excellent piece from UEA UCU committee member Conor Bollins who asks when will @teamlabouruk.bsky.social tackle the crisis engulfing our colleges and universties? We need leadership and action now from the government.

"Although the issues at UEA are particularly acute, they are only representative of the wider crisis currently unfolding within the Higher Education sector." Excellent piece by Conor -- whom we also still claim after many years of work here with us at QMUL!

🖊️"Our fear is that if we do not resist compulsory redundancy plans now, UEA will find itself in this same situation year after year with the institution ultimately plummeting towards a death spiral." 👓Read this piece by one of our committee members on the Higher Ed crisis. 🚩 #SaveUEA

About time...

“At UEA, it is understood that 22 staff are earning more than £150k and 4 staff are on £205k. At a time when university managers are pushing through large-scale job cuts, this is frankly obscene”

Important piece by @conorbollins.bsky.social not only explaining the situation, discussing remediation but posing the important question about "what universities are and what they should be"... @uea-ucu.bsky.social has been challenging mgmt on all these issues as we face redundancies.

🎓'When will Labour tackle the crisis engulfing our schools, colleges and universities?' 🌹Please stick a repost on my piece for @labouroutlook.bsky.social. #UKHE #EducationCrisis 🚩It includes a special mention of my @uea-ucu.bsky.social colleagues. #SaveUEA labouroutlook.org/2025/05/17/e...

😍Thank you to all of our members giving everything they can to support our industrial action! 💪Together we can keep up the pressure and force the employer to change course. #SaveUEA

🚩We're back on the picket line this morning. 🚩We'll also be out this Weds, Thurs, and Fri. 🚩Join us at our Gazebo HQ opposite the main UEA bus stop from 8am. #SaveUEA

🐾Bark for jobs! #SaveUEA #pupsonpickets

🚩After a solid week of campaigning, we're looking forward to participating in Norwich Transformed this Saturday. 🎓Find us on the 'Education in Crisis' panel at 10:40am. 📚How can we re-imagine learning across primary, secondary, further, and higher education? #NorwichTransformed #SaveUEA

Thank you to all the students who've supported us over the last few weeks! Please continue to: ❤️Send messages of support to people on the picket. 🗣️Talk to fellow students about why staff at UEA are on strike. 📨Email the VC and let him know why you support the strike! #SaveUEA

🥰Lots of support for our strike from members of the public passing the picket line this morning! 🎺Give us a toot or come and say hi if you're passing by! #SaveUEA

To impose all that anxiety and uncertainty on colleagues to save the last 0.25% of annual operating costs when we - the local UCU branch - have shown other ways to make savings they claim they need is the height of heartless managerialism An institution so worried about reputation…bizarre own goal

Compulsory redundancies at UEA are financially unnecessary, the process being imposed on our colleagues is cruel and in total opposition to @uniofeastanglia.bsky.social 'values', however much our VC and his team try to deny & deflect that fact. And so, we persist. @uea-ucu.bsky.social @ucu.org.uk

📣Pushing through with compulsory redundancies is not in the moral, strategic or financial interest of UEA. 🚩Join us on the picketline, tomorrow from 8am, as we continue to make the case for a brighter future for our university. #SaveUEA

We're back out on the picket line this morning, standing in solidarity with colleagues at risk of compulsory redundancy and demanding university management to change course. #SaveUEA

@uea-ucu.bsky.social is on strike against compulsory redundancies at UEA. It was Day 3 on the picketline today, and we will be out again tomorrow. ✊ #SaveUEA

Save jobs - save the doggos! (Treatos are pricey.) @uea-ucu.bsky.social #saveuea (Talulah, Lottie, Frankie Peaches, and Pebble showing their solidarity at Cow Drive today.)

How did you spend International Workers' Day? We were on the picket line defending jobs and and future of Higher Ed! #SaveUEA #MayDay