Sussex
More wildcats at Brighton bin depot
Bin workers in Brighton staged a wildcat walkout yesterday and have threatened strikes in the new year in protest of new rounds and redundancies.
Dozens of staff were sent home yesterday after a two-hour sit-in at Brighton and Hove City Council’s Hollingdean depot. Amid mounting tension, GMB union officials said it would be balloting its members on industrial action for the new year.
Sussex university technical staff strike, 10th October 2008
Technical staff at the University of Sussex went on strike last Friday (10th October), in a protest against management plans to close its pension scheme to new employees.
Commentary on the Sussex not for Sale campaign at Sussex University
Critical article on the Sussex Not For Sale campaign at the University of Sussex, written by an active member of the campaign.
Higher education is going through significant transformations on an international, or at least European, level. The UK is not immune to these changes. Whilst there have been various small protests in places around the country to resist these changes, no major local campaign has existed as of yet. Sussex not 4 Sale was born out of this context.
Sussex not for Sale rally, University of Sussex, 7th March 2008
Rally at the University of Sussex in support of the Sussex not for Sale campaign on March 7th 2008. Photos from here.
Theory and practice: recent struggles in Brighton
The small group of people who first produced Aufheben back in 1992 had already been involved in a number of different struggles for some time before we even thought of publishing a magazine.
Download this article as a print-friendly pdf file here.
Brighton and Hove bus named after Kropotkin
Bus 650 - Scania Omnidekka carried name since March 2005 on Metro 49.
Sussex students occupy library
Students at the University of Sussex occupied their library overnight in support of the SortUSOut campaign and in solidarity with staff who had been on strike the previous day and begun a marking boycott. More information at libcom news
Sussex students library occupation
80 students at the University of Sussex have occupied their library in protest against the commodification of education and its provision at their university.
Since 9:30pm this evening, 80 students from the University of Sussex have occupied their library in support of the SortUSOut campaign, a campus wide campaign for better provision of welfare and education at the University of Sussex. Our focus is on local problems directly damaging the education of students at Sussex but also the wider issues around the commodification of higher education.
A year of struggle at Sussex uni
A round-up of the political activity on the Sussex uni campus in the 2005/6 academic year.
The 2005/6 academic year was definitely an interesting one for both students and staff at Sussex. The usual excessive drinking and falling over of freshers (which this writer was partial to) was also matched by an upsurge in political activity.
2001: Brighton bin men's strike and occupation
A short history of a victorious strike and occupation of their workplace by contracted-out bin workers that was assisted by local residents.
Refusing Collection
