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Morning Star cover-up of domestic abuse allegation sparks crisis and resignations
Shiraz Socialist Above: Caroline Leneghan An extraordinary crisis has erupted at the Morning Star (de facto mouthpiece of the British Communist Party), resulting in the resignations of the editor and the company director. It stems from reporter Rory McKinnon’s questioning of the RMT leadership over allegations of domestic abuse against the union’s assistant general secretary Steve Hedley (which…
Making chains forward
My partner Dave Muritu speaking at the Dudley Black Lives Matter demonstration in June 2020. The buggies behind him act as a reminder of the extent to which the “commonsing” of public spaces for radical, collective education was built out of the labour of resistance and care undertaken historically and through COVID by Black mothers and families in the home So far the rhythmanalysis undertaken…
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Pandemic pinch point: invisible domestic labour
Pandemic pinch point: invisible domestic labour
Nita Sanghera addressing a crowd outside Sandwell College in June 2019 before her illness and untimely loss A key area for further consideration in terms of how the state regrouped under COVID to continue the “invisibilising” of domestic labour is the issue of furlough. While paid, legitimised labour was given some (often pitiful) status as needing sustenance during its halting under COVID in…
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Arrhythmia: breaking chains
Daily Mail front page from Friday May 15th 2020 – a fragment from one of the battles which led to the January 2021 revolt For the period of the 1910 lockout, the chainmakers’ strike disrupted the daily rhythm of the chainshop, a rhythm which Sarah Chater, a teenager during the strike, recalled in 1975 as follows: “From Monday morning, 7 o’clock, till 7 o’clock at night, till 2 o’clock on a…
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The home, class and education
The home, class and education
The Rock Fryer and Brierley Hill flats photographed at night during lockdown. It would be wrong to suggest that formal education has been absent from the household prior to COVID 19. The adult education project has for some time delivered remote learning (simultaneously opening access up for working class adult learners whilst developing a model of education as an “add-on” to existing labour…
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Interrogating the domestic: COVID and the collapsed home
Interrogating the domestic: COVID and the collapsed home
“Me mother learned us… She got the work up… When we got it all right, we ad to make chain” (Myra Hall, Cradley Heath chainmaker, speaking in the 1975 documentary Nothing to Lose – The Women Chainmakers Strike of 1910 Cradley Heath) “It is important to recognise that when we speak of housework we are not speaking of a job like other jobs, but we are speaking of the subtlest violence that…
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UCU NEC elections 2021 - vote Rhiannon for Midlands rep!
UCU NEC elections 2021 – vote Rhiannon for Midlands rep!
I’m a foundation year lecturer (Health, Education and Life Sciences) and doctoral student at BCU. I’m the only West Midlands candidate in 6, standing for one of three Midlands seats on UCU NEC. I’m asking for your vote for: 1) A democratic, member-led union As a UCU left candidate, I support a member-led union with an active rather than service model of union work. As branch secretary at BCU…
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Ed D Blog 4: Methodology to method - sketching out the research for pandemic and post-pandemic FE
Ed D Blog 4: Methodology to method – sketching out the research for pandemic and post-pandemic FE
View to the path ahead from a lockdown walk in Buckpool nature reserve. It is lit up, and the light obscures the path.
In the last blog in this sequence, I want to outline and assess what methods will best facilitate the research I want to do. There are a number of issues to consider here. The first set of issues are of context: what will be permitted, and what will be imagined, in terms of what…
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Ed D Blog 3: Margins and new territories in post-pandemic FE - democracy, responsibilities, and critical frames
Ed D Blog 3: Margins and new territories in post-pandemic FE – democracy, responsibilities, and critical frames
The household and the workspace collapsed together: a view from my “desk”
In formulating my research methodology, I aim to map the contested margins of FE: the contest over access to and transition into educational space and how this is experienced by students traditionally shut out of education, and the activists (students and workers) who contest these borders. In this third blog, I want to…
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Ed D blog 2: the household, the street - boundary struggle, big data, stories and power
Ed D blog 2: the household, the street – boundary struggle, big data, stories and power
My partner looks at some street art during a lockdown walk.
In the first blog, I attempted to locate the research I am engaging in through “listening in” to rhythms (Lefebvre, 2017): the pandemic everyday, the crisis tremors of FE, and the clamour-for-keyworkers in the context of an imagined future FE. To continue, I want to think about space, domestic and public, and how it is inhabited and can…
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Ed D Blog 1: Listening in - crisis, time and space in a pandemic
Ed D Blog 1: Listening in – crisis, time and space in a pandemic
On 23rd March 2020, the UK went into lockdown in response to the global Covid-19 pandemic. As an early doctoral researcher, I am using this sequence of four blogs to record my navigation of my research journey in this unsettled moment. It feels more like mapping a seascape than a landscape. There are institutional structures deep beneath the surface (“Education” “Pedagogy” “The College” “The…
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#MeTooUCU: response as a candidate standing for women’s seat #UCUNEC
#MeTooUCU A lot of mess surrounding these accounts but I have a number of observations. I do vaguely remember Blackledge as a charismatic loud northern man and I can see why he would have been skilled as an abuser in manipulating those around him.
A universal conclusion from the accounts is that the UCU complaints procedure harms survivors and needs to be reviewed urgently.
Referring to the first…
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Endorsements for my UCU NEC campaign
Nita Sanghera, late president elect and first UCU black presidential officer:
Rhiannon is an amazing woman, mother, activist and of course teacher… she will knock UCU into shape by being her fabulous self. She has my complete support.
Sue Abbott, UCU elected national equality chair and chair of UCU national Women Members’ Standing Committee:
I have worked with Rhiannon for several years on the…
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Vote Rhiannon for HE women’s rep, UCU NEC
With Nita Sanghera and Dave Muritu at the start of UCU congress 2018.
UCU Vice President, NEC and trustee elections open on 31st January and close on 4th March 2020. I am standing for a women’s HE seat and supporting UCU left candidates for a union which is member-led and has equality issues at its centre: exactly how these two, my gritty, vivacious sister Nita Sanghera (and of course my partner…
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Blogged: No racism, no victimisation. Reinstate Dave Muritu. #ReinstateDave
On Wednesday 29th May, during the half term holiday, my partner Dave Muritu was summarily dismissed as a Maths lecturer by Sandwell College of Further and Higher Education, where a senior manager ruled that he was guilty of gross misconduct.
The gross misconduct in question was writing in pen, on a Prevent poster, the word “racist”. Although he owned up to having done it and apologised,…
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Blogged: Union democracy, left organising, & the UCU GS candidates #VoteJoMc4GS
This week, ballots opened for the election of UCU general secretary, following Sally Hunt’s retirement on ill health. I differed politically from Sally on many issues and respected her on others: notably her commitment to internationalism and her tenacity in holding her own as a GS in a testosterone-flooded general council. Had she continued to fight on for another term, I would not have…
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UCU activists stand with Birmingham Muslim community: statement
We condemn this disgusting targeting of our Muslim sisters and brothers in Birmingham and we stand in solidarity with you. We call on all trade unionists to prioritise the fight to defend our communities against racist attacks and call for renewed funding of further education to deliver hope and understanding in the place of the ignorance and hatred that flourishes when educational opportunity is…
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