Tag: politics
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Update from 2025 UCU Congress
By Tom Cowin, outgoing Sussex UCU Vice President and member of the Anti-Casualisation Committee We are writing to report back from the first-ever hybrid UCU Congress — the supreme policy-making body of our union, which determines national policy and strategic direction. This year’s Congress took place over the late May Bank Holiday weekend in Liverpool and…
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Sussex UCU Executive Committee statement supporting the Sussex Palestine solidarity encampments
On May 13, 2024, Sussex University students began an encampment protesting the university’s ties to Israel’s actions in Gaza. They demand a ceasefire, divestment from Israel, and resources to rebuild Gaza’s educational institutions. Sussex UCU supports these demands, urging the university to act and condemning all forms of discrimination.
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Join Us: Sign our Open Letter to Vice Chancellor, Sasha Roseneil – Divest from Israel’s Colonial Genocide
UCU stands in solidarity with those fighting for justice and human rights, calling on the University to divest from companies complicit in Israel’s colonial genocide. They urge support in signing an open letter to the Vice Chancellor, outlining demands for divestment and ethical investment policies. The motion affirms moral responsibility and advocates for meaningful change,…
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Sign Open Letter on Student Finance Issues
Sussex Students’ Union have published an open letter regarding the recent student finance issues that have affected members of our Sussex community. Sussex Exec voted to endorse and circulate the letter last week in support of USSU and our affected members. In early March, just under 900 students received ‘reminder letters’ from the University Finance…
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UUK’s continued defence of misleading claims is a sham, their governance a disgrace
Figure 1: Timeline of UUK underestimates of cuts to pensions, all links here. In a response to Sussex UCU members concerns, Universities UK (UUK) continued its sham defence of their year of misleading claims on the scale of the USS pension cuts. UUK’s woefully inadequate response, dated 7 July 2022 – copied here in full…
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Sussex UCU statement on Hong Kong National Security Law
Sussex UCU notes the National Security Law (NSL) in Hong Kong which came into force on 30 June of this year and its claims to universal jurisdiction in Section 6, Articles 36-9. Sussex UCU further notes the statement of the Association for Asian Studies and the interim statement of the British Association for Chinese Studies…
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Call for University of Sussex to condemn racism in research funding
5th September 2020 Dear Professor Becker, We write to ask for the University’s public support for a recent open letter condemning racism in research funding. The letter, written by ten Black women involved in UK research and addressed to UKRI, was prompted by a funding call which saw £0 of £4.3 million awarded to Black…
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Dismantling White Supremacy at Sussex
The most recent Black Lives Matter protests precipitated by the murder of George Floyd in the US have accelerated a polarisation in debates about the nature of “race” and racism in the UK and other “liberal democratic” states. Hard coded into the movement’s very name is a recognition of the fact that black people experience…
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Black Lives Matter
Image credit: https://blacklivesmatter.com/ UCU Sussex stands in solidarity with Black staff and students at the University. We also stand with all those protesting against police brutality and working to dismantle white supremacy within Sussex, the UK, the USA and worldwide. We ask you to sign this open letter addressed to the Vice Chancellor Adam Tickell,…
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A Response to the Vice-Chancellor
On 5th May the Vice Chancellor sent a long email to all staff which implicitly responds to the Crisis Justice at Sussex campaign. That campaign is itself a response to the programme of cuts outlined in the Financial Review Guidelines, which were circulated in their original form on 25th March and then published in revised…
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