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Resisting the cuts at Leeds University. Strike, Occupy, Transform!

The Really Open University | 16.02.2010 21:55 | Education | Free Spaces | Social Struggles | Sheffield

A group called the Really Open University has been established to help resist the £35 million of cuts being made at the University of Leeds.

The University of Leeds is facing £35million of cuts and around 700 job cuts. The lecturers union, the UCU, in a record turnout has recently voted to strike. Background info here:  http://www.northern-indymedia.org/articles/465

The Really Open University has been established in order to help resist these cuts and support the strikes, but also in order to widen the struggle into one that criticizes the current model of education and aims at attempting to transform it into something more liberatory.

The second issue of our newsletter, 'The Sausage Factory' is out now. You can dowload if here:
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17.02.2010 00:47

So Leeds University staff expect that the Great British public, many of whom are out of work, on short time or have been forced into lower paid jobs after being made redundant, should keep them all in the manner to which they have become accustomed?

There is less money about and less tax being paid, so there have to be fewer public employees, including university staff. Of course, if all the university staff could agree a pay cut then perhaps they could be all kept on. I don't expect that'll happen so it'll be normal wages for most of them and the dole for a minority.

Pete

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17.02.2010 09:49

Pete, are you suggesting that people should not resist job cuts? Are you silly enough to think that support staff at Leeds Uni will also not be cut? Eg cleaners, technicians etc. The Uni library is also to become fully automated, which will mean the loss of many library assistant jobs (poorly paid). For your info the VC of Leeds uni earns about 40,000 MORE than the PM and flies to work once a week from Southampton. Are you also silly enough not to realise that the cuts will affect depts and courses least beneficial to the reproduction of capital.

Are you in fact just a pro-capitalist Troll?

Not Pete

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