Question

How to attain solidarity speech

Answer 1

I want to begin by paying grateful tribute to the young people who are now leading the Cambridge branch of the UCU and who have put in enormous amounts of energy, labour and time into organising industrial action on this campus. What is striking — and relevant to what I am about to say — is that some of them were, not all that long ago, student activists leading the resistance here to the attack that began on universities and students, yes, students in particular, in 2010 with the disgraceful tripling of tuition fees that has sought to turn students into consumers rather than young scholars. The powers that be, including sections of the media, UUK and of course our own university administration like to play on what they think is a sharp divide between the ‘student experience’ and the ‘irresponsible’ and ‘selfish’ actions of lecturers. Both Cambridge University Students Union and the National Union of Students have both been stellar in refusing that nonsensical and cynical ploy, and I thank them too on behalf of all striking staff for their solidarity. This is our university and our shared education and together we will defend it from the relentless assaults it is undergoing at the hands of the Tories and the votaries of privatising everything except corporate losses.
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