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Labour shadow education secretary Tristram Hunt shocked striking university workers yesterday by crossing their picket line — to teach students about Marx and Engels.
Mr Hunt “hurried” past members of academics’ union UCU at Queen Mary University of London who were taking part in national dispute against years of pay cuts.
Most strikers joined two-hour walkouts between 9am and 11am, but lecturers at Queen Mary and 11 other institutions stayed out all day because bosses docked them a full day’s pay for a short strike last week.
From hunting rare pamphlets at book sales to online panels and courses on trade unionism and class politics, the MML continues connecting archive treasures with the movements fighting for a better world, writes director MEIRIAN JUMP
The summer saw the co-founders of modern communism travelling from Ramsgate to Neuenahr to Scotland in search of good weather, good health and good newspapers in the reading rooms, writes KEITH FLETT
