The University and Colleges Union has called off industrial action over pensions, what's the odds now that the NUT will do the same? I sincerely hope they don't but, there's that word... hope. What's left except the hope that the British organised working class will actually do something to defend itself (and by extension the rest of the working class)?
We've tried and tried and we will keep trying to rouse people. If you don't fight you will lose. At what point do you conclude they just aren't going to listen? How long are the trade unions going to insist on being terrorised by the ghost of Margaret Thatcher and the Miners Strike? Are we really heading into a new dark-age of right-wing ascendancy? If it's a possibility we have to consider it.
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Isn't it just UCU members on the USS pension scheme though? As far as I understood, the UCU members on the NSS scheme (post-92 uni's) are still on to ballot...
Obviously agree with you on the central thrust of the argument though.
The less impressionistic more specific conclusion is this could/should spell the end of the broadleft strategy. What's the point of being elected to this or that post on this or that executive if the reps below you vote against you, undermine everything you try to do? All you are is a political hostage.
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