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The USS Strike: pensions are the trigger, but the strike is about discontent with academic working conditions in the UK

Post author By Iskra Krstic
Post date February 26, 2018

#SaveUSS rally Cambridge. Credit UCU facebook feed.

Note from the LeftEast editors: this article first appeared in Serbian on the comradely web portal Masina and was kindly translated and adapted for LeftEast by its author. The biggest strike in the history of British higher education started last Thursday. Lectturers and researchers at around sixty British universities, including Oxford, Cambridge, Exeter and Imperial College […]

Tags casualisation, free market, labour unions, pension, privatisation, strike, UK, workers' rights

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The disintegration effect of the world market on Yugoslavia and the working class. An interview with Vladimir Unkovski-Korica.

Post author By admin
Post date June 13, 2013
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Among the numerous guests at the recent “Subversive festival”, was Vladimir Unkovski-Korica (foto), a historian and researcher who is currently a Fellow at the London School of Economics*. His upcoming book entitled “The Economic Struggle for Power in Tito’s Yugoslavia: From World War II to Non-Alignment” will be released soon. We discussed some themes from […]

Tags capitalism, debt, EU, free market, IMF, imperialism, industry, market socialism, neocolonialism, socialism, Unions, Yugoslavia