John Rees, Respect national secretary
Suzie Wylie, Sheffield Hallam University & NUS executive (personal capacity)
Over 40 delegates to last weekend’s conference of lecturers’ union Natfhe came to an enthusiastic Respect question and answer reception with Shaun Doherty, George Galloway’s election agent.
After the general election and George Galloway’s performance in the US there is a completely new audience for Respect in the trade unions.
On behalf of P-Sol, I want to congratulate you all for the important victory that you have achieved.
Tous ensemble! (All together!) was the cry that rang out in central Paris last Saturday at the end of a huge rally organised by the French left. The rally was part of the left’s campaign for a no vote in the referendum on the new European Union constitution.
In East London a group of about 45 Asian workers, in a workplace previously unknown to the trade union movement, are reviving a militant tradition that had seemed lost to the area.
A five-day strike by lecturers in the Natfhe union at London Metropolitan University last week was a great success, with spirits high on the picket lines and a real sense of solidarity across the university.
The Manchester University branch of the lecturers’ AUT union voted last week to support the academic boycott of Israeli institutions.
Parents, children and teachers lobbied Islington council’s schools organisation committee on Thursday of last week. They are attempting to dissuade it from agreeing to close St Mary Magdalene primary school and reopen it as a city academy with 1,400 pupils aged between three and 19.
Lecturers in the Natfhe union at Newcastle College took their seventh day of strike action on Tuesday of this week.
