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The UCU union’s annual congress sent a clear message to the government last week—we are preparing a national fight against your cuts.

Lecturers in the UCU union sent out a clear call for a united fightback against cuts.

Richmond College and the University of Arts UCU lecturers’ union members at Richmond College and the University of Arts (UAL) were to strike on Thursday of this week.

Members of the UCU lecturers' union at the University of Westminster and University College London (UCL), have today voted in favour of both strike action and action short of a strike in their fights to save jobs.

I put myself forward as the Trade Unionist and Socialist Coalition (Tusc) candidate for Tottenham because cuts in my college are a microcosm of the cuts threatened by all the main parties.

Delegates at the UCU union’s Scotland congress last week voted unanimously to prioritise industrial action in response to cuts in higher education.

The UCU Left has increased its representation on the national executive committee of the UCU lecturers’ union.

The UCU Left has made some gains in recent elections for the union’s national executive committee.

Election results for the national executive committee and national officers of the UCU lecturers’ union are due on Wednesday. But elections for higher education members for London and the East continue until 17 March. Socialist Worker is backing UCU Left candidates Mark Campbell, Jane Hardy and Jim Wolfreys in this section.

Lecturers at the University of Sussex have voted overwhelmingly for strikes to save jobs. The UCU union members’ ballot won the highest turnout ever seen at the university. Some 80.9 percent voted in the ballot with 76 percent backing strikes.

Elections for national officers of the lecturers’ UCU union and its national executive committee (NEC) will end on Friday of this week.

The University of Leeds UCU lecturers’ union has suspended strike action planned for Thursday.