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  • A case of disciplinary action against a university academic
    5 September 2008 par (Open-Publishing)

    A case of disciplinary action against a university academic is presented on COBAS UK. In the analysis a case for managerial discrection and union passivity is presented highlighting how disciplinary procedures are internalised within the system in order to extend managerial control.
    http://www.cobas.org.uk
    COBAS UK

  • STOKING THE FIRES FOR MORE WAR
    5 September 2008 par (Open-Publishing)

    STOKING THE FIRES FOR MORE WAR
    MAKE YOUR VOICE HEARD - STOP THE SPREAD OF WAR DEMONSTRATE AT THE LABOUR PARTY CONFERENCE SATURDAY 20 SEPTEMBER: ASSEMBLE 12.30PM ALL SAINTS, MANCHESTER M15
    Events in Georgia have raised the terrifying prospect of big power confrontation between the US and Russia. NATO expansion was the prime cause of the crisis in the first place, disgracefully, the British Government’s response has stoked up more tension.
    David Miliband’s trip to the (…)

  • Rank and file - Part 3
    17 July 2008 par (Open-Publishing)

    The institution of tighter job regulation for workers accompanied by greater discretion for managers in universities to make decisions over employment issues, represent an irrational postmodern transformation of universities into capitalist corporations, while the ideological neoliberal project driving such developments, functions to alienate academics and other university workers.
    Academics find themselves working involuntarily in the interests of the capital imperative; for institutions (…)

  • Blonde ambitions
    23 June 2008 par (Open-Publishing)

    The recent league tables hitch of Kingston University has made the round of the national news. I cannot understand why. Just practical things, a VC would say. From a point of view of a marketing manager in the University UK PLC it would be ridiculous to provide evidence of such collusions between students, lecturers, senior management of the university up to the government. It is something that is intended to be there already: an intricate network of interests bum-to-bum as nobody knew (…)

  • British judge asks government to delay EU treaty ratification
    20 June 2008 par (Open-Publishing)

    British judge asks government to delay EU treaty ratification
    The Associated Press Friday, June 20, 2008
    LONDON: The British government agreed Friday to a judge’s request to delay ratification of the European Union’s reform treaty until he has ruled on a lawsuit seeking to force a referendum.
    Lord Justice Stephen Richards had said he was surprised that the government was pressing ahead with ratification before he ruled on a suit brought by millionaire Stuart Wheeler, and Richards (…)

  • EU treaty should be dropped, say British voters
    18 June 2008 par (Open-Publishing)

    EU treaty should be dropped, say British voters
    By James Kirkup and Bruno Waterfield in Brussels Last updated: 6:52 PM BST 17/06/2008
    British voters want Gordon Brown to scrap moves to ratify the European Union’s Lisbon Treaty, a new poll has disclosed.
    The study piles fresh pressure on the Prime Minister to abandon the treaty in the wake of Ireland’s rejection of it in a referendum last week.
    According to a YouGov poll carried out after the Irish result was announced on Friday, (…)

  • Protesters clash with police in attempt to storm Whitehall
    16 June 2008 par (Open-Publishing)

    Protesters clash with police in attempt to storm Whitehall
    june 16th, 2008 3:01 am
    By Cahal Milmo / The Independent
    LONDON — Police wielding batons clashed with protesters last night when a demonstration against George Bush’s farewell visit to Britain turned violent a few hundred metres from where the US President was dining with Gordon Brown.
    Within the shadow of the Houses of Parliament, officers dressed in riot gear skirmished with several hundred demonstrators who had been (…)

  • Anti-war protesters banned from demonstrating against Bush
    11 June 2008 par (Open-Publishing)

    London police have announced a ban on anti-war campaigners hoping to protest against President George Bush’s visit to Downing Street this Sunday. The Whitehall ban has been immediately condemned as a "totalitarian act" by the playwright Harold Pinter, while Stop the War organisers are urging people to defy it and to demonstrate nearby in Parliament Square.
    "In what is supposed to be a free country the Stop the War Coalition has every right to express its views peacefully and openly. This (…)

  • PROTEST AGAINST GEORGE BUSH’S VISIT TO LONDON
    5 June 2008 par (Open-Publishing)
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    When journalist George Monbiot was asked last week why he had tried to exercise a citizen’s arrest on neocon John Bolton - one of the prime instigators of the Iraq war - he replied, "We must ensure that people do not forget. This is not an ordinary political mistake which was committed in Iraq. This was the supreme international crime, which led to the deaths of hundreds of thousands of people. Those people were not killed in the ordinary sense; they were murdered.
    And they (…)

  • Alienated at work? Don’t sell yourself.
    15 May 2008 par (Open-Publishing)

    Alienated at work? Don’t sell yourself.
    Legislation since the 1990s has introduced a focus on mass education , performativity and marketisation in British Higher Education, whereby reduced public funds are allocated against student numbers and performance indicators, forcing reliance on market mechanisms to differentiate institutions based on the quality of education, which is essentially treated as a commodity.
    A technocratic and instrumental view of knowledge is adopted, leading to (…)