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Simon Stevens

@SimonMStevens

rank-and-file historian

 Sheffield, UK
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Joined November 2012
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My article - 'Violence, Political Strategy and the Turn to Guerrilla Warfare by the Congress Movement in South Africa' - has now been published by @JSAS_Editors: tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.…
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2020 was a year for a lot of reading (much of it spent while the baby napped on top of me, or more recently while sitting in Peak District car parks while he naps in the carseat). A few of the many highlights:
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As another year comes to an end, a few reading highlights of 2022:
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A few reading highlights of 2023, a year of (amongst other things!) strikes, lockouts, and travels in Ireland and India
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Paul Ginsborg obituary theguardian.com/books/2022/j…
Paul Ginsborg obituary

Paul Ginsborg obituary

Historian, author and leftwing activist who was professor of contemporary European history at the University of Florence

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Happy 4th birthday to whatever the hell happened to the @UniversitiesUK twitter account that glorious evening. #OneOfUsAllOfUs #USSmess #UCUstrike
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Replying to @ucu @acasorguk
We are meeting @ucu tomorrow - any time, any place
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Freedom Fries achieved
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Sainsbury’s has said it will drop Russian goods from its shelves and change the name of Chicken Kiev to Chicken Kyiv in solidarity with the people of Ukraine standard.co.uk/business/russ…
Sainsbury’s drops Russian Standard Vodka and changes Chicken Kiev to Chicken Kyiv

Sainsbury’s drops Russian Standard Vodka and changes Chicken Kiev to Chicken Kyiv

Sainsbury’s has said it will drop Russian goods from its shelves and change the name of Chicken Kiev to Chicken Kyiv in solidarity with the people of Ukraine.

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Dr Laura Mason@LMasonSU4 Mar 2022
Filling in the University strike/ASOS reporting form, I can't help but wonder where the form is to reclaim for the 60+ hours a week worked through the pandemic or for the 20+ days of annual leave workload hasn't allowed me to take over the last 2 years!?#UCUstrike #OneOfUsAllOfUs
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What this means, is that if SETs are being used in promotion, probation and hiring (which they often are) what is being assessed is not just whether they are a good teacher, but how well women are adhering to gender-stereotyped ways of teaching. 7/11
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James Greig@jamesdgreig3 Mar 2022
I think there’s a problem across the board in imagining boycotts to be purely vibes-based and concerned with individual morality, rather than a coordinated effort
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James Greig@jamesdgreig3 Mar 2022
Jesus wept!
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Sol Gamsu@SolGamsu28 Feb 2022
I hope the #USSMess legal case is approved & rules in our favour but that's unlikely given how the establishment & legal system work. We should use every lever but there is no shortcut to building the industrial strength to ensure we can win big & conclusively. #UCUstrike
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Keele UCU@KeeleUCU28 Feb 2022
🚨 LEAVING PARTY FOR GOOD WILL 🚨 We are hosting a leaving party for good will at 10am tomorrow in Union Square. Good will has made a tremendous contribution to the success of Keele. I'm sure we will all miss it. Bring noise, bring your anger. Let's put good will in the bin.
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NEW 🚨💷: UK employers claimed £27 BILLION of free labour last year, thanks to working people doing unpaid overtime.
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Oxford UCU@OxfordUCU28 Feb 2022
If only members could rely on their pension scheme to act in their interests without having to go to the High Court.
Josephine Cumbo (@JosephineCumbo) profile pictureJosephine Cumbo@JosephineCumbo28 Feb 2022
BREAKING: The UK High Court has over-turned a decision to deny legal action by academics against the #USS pension scheme over the handling of the controverisal #2020 valuation. #UCU #USS #UUK Details follow.
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Today I'm remembering that lovely summer when the university threatened to sack and rehire us on worse conditions in the middle of a pandemic.
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I won't be working weekends ever again for an institution and employer body that treats me with such contempt
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This is such a crucial question. During and after the 2018 strikes, there was so much talk of #ASOSforever, new attitudes to work in UKHE, and so on, and yet it seemed like within weeks we were all back working in exactly the same ways we always had
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(I say this as a self-criticism as much as anything else. I don't think I worked in the 2018-19 academic year any differently from how I had before February 2018, despite anything I may have said on twitter or to colleagues during or in the immediate aftermath of those strikes)
I have covered UK university sector disputes over #pension cuts since 2017 and can say that I have not seen members so angry as they are today over fresh cuts to their retirement benefits. The anger has reached a new depth. This does feel like a turning point. #USS #UUK #UCU
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Am feeling genuinely both angry and calm this morning. I am going to reduce my workload by the proportion they have slashed my pensions. Stayed my hand this morning before doing some goodwil work. Am going to do yoga instead. This is actually quite liberating.
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