Solidarity is essential to winning the strike, your support is incredibly important! Here’s some of the things you can do: 1. Join the picket line 2. Convince others to support the strike 3. Build community solidarity 4. Pressure your University
This strike is about who our universities work for and the future of higher education. Winning it can turn the tide against marketisation, fees and debt, and strengthen fight for free, democratised, decolonised education.
📣 Labour Clubs & activists - tag us in your solidarity posts for us to share them and if there’s any support or resources that would be helpful for organising in support of the strikes ahead of next year please let our student reps @nabeelamowlana & @comradefraz know!
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A statement on our future campaigning and canvassing.
Young Labour will no longer campaign, organise or canvass for candidates, Cllrs or MPs who fail to stand by workers, do not respect picket lines and do not support trade unionists right to industrial action:
Trade unions are the bedrock of the labour movement and are at the forefront of defending workers rights against corrupt bosses and Tory governments which have harmed the lives of millions of workers.
We were appalled to see some elected Labour representatives crossing the UCU picket line and earlier this week others made disgraceful comments regarding RMT striking workers. This lack of solidarity has no place in our movement.
Young Labour gives its unconditional solidarity to the Cubans in the struggle against imperialism and its full support to the call for the US government to immediately end its criminal blockade of Cuba.
During this global health crisis, as in every other, Cuban doctors & (1/6)
medical staff have travelled across the world to aid a global working-class denied vaccines and adequate healthcare.
Since the revolution Cuba has consistently fought against imperialism across the globe, playing a pivotal role supporting the anti-apartheid struggle in (2/6)