Sussex Against Privatization
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It’s official: the Pop-Up Union is a listed trade union!
Since the Pop-Up Union was formed in March this year, we have been in discussions with the Certification Officer regarding being entered onto the official list of active trade unions. We are pleased to announce we have now been entered onto the list. A news post on the Certification Officer’s website confirmed the good news: … Continue reading
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This month has marked a year of struggle against the privatisation of Sussex University. Things have inevitably slowed down on the public and student side of the campaign. But work has been ongoing behind the scenes, especially for the trade unions and workers. This week, the Pop Up Union was certified as a trade union! … Continue reading
Communique from the occupiers of the Arts Piazza Cafe. After a demo of over 300 people, students and staff at the university have occupied the Arts Piazza cafe on campus. This flash occupation demonstrates that we are not afraid to take action in support of our services. We will not be intimidated by … Continue reading
STATEMENT – 4pm – Tuesday 16th April 2013 Today marked an important step in the continuation and growth of the Sussex Against Privatisation Campaign. After 11 months of campaigning, a seven week long occupation, the launch of the worker led Pop Up Union, an EDM signed by 31 MP’s and continued expressions of support from … Continue reading
***CAMPAIGN MEETINGS EVERYDAY!*** 5-7PM FALMER HOUSE COMMON ROOM OR MEETING ROOM 2 Please come and help organising to support the 235! Want to know why it’s important and why anybody can chip in, even for just a couple of hours? Read this: http://girlignited.wordpress.com/2013/04/07/armchair-politics-and-the-top-three-excuses-for-doing-sweet-f-a/ For a beautiful collection of accounts of the struggle, see here: http://www.metamute.org/editorial/articles/weaponise-corpse-anti-privatisation-struggle-sussex-university … Continue reading
Today we saw how far the University management are willing to go to suppress protest on campus. At 11am this morning bailiffs, accompanied by a staggering number of police, arrived on campus to evict students who have been occupying the Bramber House Conference Centre since February 7th. After the occupiers peacefully left the building chanting … Continue reading
Occupation as a protest tactic originated in the workers movements of Europe and America at the turn of the 20th century. A wave of factory occupations spread across Paris’ metal industry in 1936 followed just a few months later by the occupation of GM’s factories in Flint, Michigan. Used in the radical student movements of … Continue reading
From the Occupation: ‘After an occupation lasting seven weeks, countless demonstrations, an EDM signed by 25 MPs, close to 10,000 names on petitions and a campus turned yellow, Management have taken action through the courts to forcibly evict the students and staff occupying Bramber House Conference Centre. The willingness of management to ignore dialogue with … Continue reading
Following from Monday’s events, the University have been granted an injunction banning all forms of protest on campus not consented to by management. This injunction is meant to provide the university with a right to evict the occupiers in Bramber House. The Court Hearing was today, Wednesday 27 March at the Royal High Court in … Continue reading
Press Release – 25/03/13 – 4.30pm Today marks an important and momentous day in the history of resistance at Sussex University and in the United Kingdom. At 1pm today, students from across the country stood alongside academics, university staff and others in a mass display of solidarity, to express their anger at the Management of … Continue reading
While management gets private security to violently restrict people’s access to the occupation, we get an EDM in Parliament… http://www.parliament.uk/edm/2012-13/1216 Primary sponsor: Lucas, Caroline Sponsors: Anderson, David; Clark, Katy; Corbyn, Jeremy; Flynn, Paul; McDonnell, John That this House is aware of the occupation taking place at the University of Sussex, which is part of an … Continue reading
Download the pdf here. Featuring articles on the Bramber House occupation, the privatized creche, a letter from one of the 235, the campaign so far, and reclaiming the university.
To all our supporters, Thank you so much for keeping informed and supporting this fight, which, as your comments and names showcase, has many ramifications in other sectors and other institutions, in the UK but also worldwide. The management at the University of Sussex are still completely ignoring the breadth of this campaign. We will … Continue reading
Today has proven to be one of the most exciting of our occupation. Signatures to our petition and statements of solidarity have been flooding in from a wide range of institutions and individuals, including a number MP’s, public intellectuals and faculty. The biggest demonstration yet took place in Library Square. An estimated five hundred members … Continue reading
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This blog has been set up by workers at Sussex University who are opposed to the plan to privatize 235 jobs. This is a place to discuss how we can stop it.
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