Joseph Choonara
@jchoonara
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Author: "Reader's Guide to Capital"; "Insecurity, Precarious Work & Labour Markets". Editor: International Socialism. UCU activist. Tweets in personal capacity.
Leicester, the UK
Joined March 2009
A strong vote for strike action, and a big turnout, for @leicesterucu, especially in an August ballot. Let's see if @uniofleicester now withdraw the threat of compulsory redundancies and end the dispute. #CitizensOfChange
Ballot results are out: 79.5% in favour of strike action 87.0% in favour of action short of a strike 62.0% turnout
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The university sent out a news bulletin today and it made some... uh... interesting claims. 🧵
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🚨 URGENT UPDATE🚨 Following the latest report on Future Nottingham, we held an emergency meeting with our branch members. During this meeting we: -Voted overwhelmingly to institute our strike on 24/7 -Voted overwhelmingly to start our ASOS on 24/7
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Our statement on the Labour government’s escalating authoritarian crackdown on the Palestine solidarity movement. We will not be silenced. We are the majority. We urge you to join us on the streets of London next Saturday (19 July) and march for Palestine.
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I wrote a piece in response to recent articles in Jacobin, by Hanna Goldberg and others, on Mike Kidron and the theory of the permanent arms economy. Sadly, Jacobin weren't interested, but you can read it here:
researchgate.net
PDF | A short respond to recent writing on Mike Kidron and the Permanent Arms Economy in the US radical left publication Jacobin. | Find, read and cite all the research you need on ResearchGate
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Indicative ballot results are out! Click here for more about our dispute: https://t.co/AyuVfN2bYi
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La vacilante recuperación del movimiento obrero británico. One of my analyses of the UK strike wave a couple of years back, from the ISJ, has been translated into Spanish (with a new introduction).
laizquierdadiario.com
A continuación presentamos la traducción al castellano del artículo de Joseph Choonara “The British labour movement's halting recovery” publicado en el número 178 de de la revista International...
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Our ballot results are in! -63% of members voted -84% of voting members said YES to action short of strike -72% of voting members said YES to strike action Which means our call for industrial action has passed and we have a mandate to fight back!
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Starmer has an interview in tomorrow's Observer expressing regret for his "Island of Strangers" speech. Here, from the new issue of International Socialism, are some thoughts from me on the subject—and the state of British politics more generally.
isj.org.uk
“For reasons which they could not comprehend…they found themselves made strangers in their own country”.1 —Enoch Powell, the “Rivers of Blood” speech, 20 April 1968. “[W]e risk becoming an island of...
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An interesting empirical study showing how strike activity helped restore union density in Chile. Not very surprising from a Marxist perspective, but good to see a case study taking the argument seriously! https://t.co/hiVkapAE0k
journals.sagepub.com
Like in other countries with neoliberal industrial relations (IR) regimes, unionization in Chile declined throughout the 1990s and 2000s. However, in the last d...
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UCU Leicester is alarmed to hear that these areas have been selected for “pre-change” engagement. Read our full response to the announcement here - https://t.co/EGm6ZBJbQh Join a Union. Strength in numbers ✊ @ucu #JoinAUnion
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