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Universities, Solidarity, and International Boycotts.

Part I: Apartheid and the Boycott of South African Universities By Dion Georgiou Introduction This is the first in a series of blogs about international movements to boycott the universities of nation states culpable of gross oppression of people within or beyond their borders, as part of a wider coordinated

UCU Commons TUC report

Photo: Hussam Zomlot, Palestinian Ambassador to the UK, speaking at TUC. Image: TUC This year, UCU Commons member and NEC women’s rep Jo Edge was part of UCU’s delegation to the Trade Union Congress (TUC), and here shares some information and reflections on the three-day event held in

UCU Equality Conference 2024: a guide to registration and nomination

At UCU Commons, we want to broaden participation in all of the union’s democratic structures. This includes the equality conferences and the equality standing committees. The calling notice for this was published a few weeks ago, so we thought we’d write an accessible explainer of how this bit

British Trade Unions Oppose the Cass Report. Here’s Why That Matters.

By Matilda Fitzmaurice On the last Thursday and Friday in June, the TUC LGBT+ conference took place at the magnificent Congress House in London. This 2-day event, which brings together LGBTQIA+ members from the unions affiliated to the TUC, was attended by a large UCU delegation. Many important motions were

Reports from June and July HECs

By UCU Commons NEC members 10th June Special HEC A special meeting of the Higher Education Committee was called for Monday 10th June in order to discuss an offer made by UCEA on joint pay negotiations (New JNCHES) with four other unions with members in HE (EIS, Unite, Unison and

Maximising chaos: a UCU Commons report from NEC, 21st June 2024

By UCU Commons NEC members The National Executive Committee of UCU held its first post-Congress meeting on 21 June 2024. This meeting was the first attended by the members elected in the 2024 NEC election held in February. This iteration of the NEC has a comfortable majority of UCU Left

UCU Congress 2024 - a member's report

Several hundred delegates from branches across the four nations and from higher, further, prison and adult and community education, met in Bournemouth last week for UCU’s annual Congress – the peak policy-making body of our union. UCU Commons members were also active over the last week, representing branches, regional committees

Academic freedom and the knowledge commons

By Matilda Fitzmaurice and Dion Georgiou This article represents an attempt to establish some basic, but contingent, principles on academic freedom. It does not put forward a ‘UCU Commons position’ on academic freedom, as this collectivity contains diverse and wide-ranging views on the subject (which we believe should be encouraged)