On the 21st October at 12 noon, Sheffield Activist Network will be holding a party on the steps of Firth Court to welcome Phil Harvey as the new registrar to Sheffield University. At previous Universities he has been responsible for such heavy handed actions as a campus curfew for anti-militarist activism, forced redundancies, union busting, the forcing of external trustees onto the Sussex Senate and attacks upon the Sussex Camp Against Cuts.

As Sheffield University attempts to claw back a 25 million pound deficit caused by its reckless speculative activity such measures are already being seen here, such as the shutting down of the Biblical Studies department, increased redundancies and influx of ‘bank workers’. It is people like Phil Harvey who will play a large role in furthering these actions as well as seeking to minimise student and worker resistance to then.

We at Sheffield Activist Network do not feel Universities should be run as businesses where the education of students is left to the whim of the market and can be shelved when management sees fit. Furthermore we do not feel that University workers should be made to suffer for the failures of the capitalist system and of its component parts. As such we have organised this party to illustrate that we are aware of what is happening and that we are not going to stand passively by and let it happen.

So come join us, lets keep Sheffield radical!


NOTES TO EDITORS;

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