Over recent months, picket lines across Scotland—particularly at Glasgow Caledonian University—have seen incredible resilience from teaching and support staff fighting back against the threat of compulsory redundancies. In this episode, Richie Venton explores why these strikes are happening, examining the deep financial mismanagement, soaring international student fees, and a corporate university model that prioritizes profits […]
Tag: Solidarity
The Frog Chorus Reunited
Last night, looking like the lead singer of an ageing re-formed and touring Frog Chorus, Alex Salmond announced his new Alpaca (or something) Party. The twitter/blogger gammony; parts of the ageing alt left, the transphobes and the creepy men who tell us that being a creepy man was acceptable when we were young (I was […]


