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For private tenants. Major wins for pro democracy campaigners in hong kongs council elections, putting renewed pressure on the government. People orderly and peacefully lining up people orderly and peacefully lining up outside of the voting station early in the morning, just because they want to get the vote. We deserve democracy. And coming up, two cinema chains withdraw the gang film blue story after a brawl at a cinema in birmingham on saturday. We speak to one of the actors in the movie. Goo...

Incumbent must overcome low turnout, member disillusionment and three challengers if she is to secure another five-year term in office

Ballots slipped through letterboxes for education workers in the University and College Union (UCU) from 25 January. Incumbent Jo Grady is being challenged for general secretary (GS), and there are elections for the National Executive (NEC) members and for the union vice-president (who becomes president after two years). Voting closes 1 March. In online hustings this week Grady admitted her term had not been easy, blaming the difficulties on having to implement an industrial strategy that was no...

Saira wrote that “Broad campaigning and a mass movement are the best basis for us to protect academic freedom and free speech on Israel”.

The UCU union is electing a new general secretary and it needs a new kind of leadership. Saira Weiner, the candidate of the UCU Left

Union members voting on who should be next general secretary, with incumbent under pressure from all sides 

The UCU bureaucracy’s feigned outrage over anti-democratic legislation the trade unions have never challenged as a cover shutting down strikes it opposed from the very start.

On 13 November, Vicky Blake announced her candidacy for General Secretary of the University and College Union. Other candidates so far are Jo Grady (re-standing), Saira Weiner from the UCU Left/SWP, and Euan McGaughey, a law academic who brought a legal case over pension misevaluation. Vicky, a former Vice President and President of the union, is standing as an independent. She has a background in fighting casualisation, has recently championed solidarity with Ukrainian trade unionists, and has ...

With one dispute won but another floundering, some believe lack of strikes could actually benefit UK’s main academic union in latest talks with employers, but others are preparing to try to unseat the general secretary in an election that promises to be a ‘referendum on last five years’

Hundreds of people gathered in Golden Gate Park Sunday for the San Francisco AIDS Walk.