The Socialist 24 November 2009

"We wont pay for the crisis"

'We wont pay for the crisis'

How could full youth employment be achieved?

Bristol Youth Fight for Jobs challenges council leader

Lessons of struggle: If you fight, you can win!

Flood chaos in Cumbria

Afghanistan: Brown and Obama scrabbling for an exit strategy

Main parties plan cutbacks: It's time for a fightback!

Mobilising to stop Griffin

Racists - stay out of Wrexham!

Successful Manchester Tamil Solidarity meeting

Fast news

People's Charter - a step towards workers' political representation?

The battle for state education

Socialist Party candidate increases vote in NUT election

Education: 'Try your best' is not enough

Schools paying for the crisis

Attacks begin at Bangor University

Fight cuts at Manchester Met

Leeds bins victory

Superdrug workers show industrial action can win victories

Defend the four!

Postal dispute: Bosses still on the attack

London bus workers strike

Axiom railworkers' strike remains solid

Cuts crisis on the Isle of Man

Guadeloupe - End the profiteering and exploitation

The 1970s, mainly viewed from the top

Previous issues, etc

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Fight cuts at Manchester Met

News of 127 job losses among support staff has been met with outrage by the staff and their trade unions at Manchester Metropolitan University (MMU). Decisive action now by staff, with active support from students, can put pressure on the management to back off.

Hugh Caffrey and Socialist Party supporters at MMU

A rally called on the day of the announcement drew nearly 100 people from the staff and student population. This shows the scope for a campaign, with the unions taking the leading role.

The vice-chancellor (VC) claims jobs must be lost because of future cuts in public spending on universities. Further attacks impend on jobs and resourcing, maybe under the guise of the £7 million budget deficit, or paying for the planned new buildings, or further announcements from the government's review of higher education.

The joint unions at MMU are consulting their members over a vote of no confidence in the VC. The student union should condemn the threats to jobs and organise mass meetings of students for a similar no confidence vote.

The joint unions have called a lobby of the board of governors: Friday 27 November, 12.30pm. Corner of All Saints Park, outside Ormond Building, Oxford Road, Manchester.