"Not only has the education industry been the site of rapid employment growth, it has also been the site of growing labor unrest worldwide in the second half of the twentieth century. According to the VVLG data, the education industry is one of the few industries that has experienced a rising trend of labor unrest in the final decades of the twentieth century. Moreover, the geographical spread of teacher labor unrest has been far greater than was the case historically for the textile and automobile industries."

-Beverly Silver, Forces of Labor, 115

Unbelievable footage from London yesterday of students fighting back against the cops. Behold the potentialities of the liberation of living knowledge that is the book bloc.

Another occupation linkdump

Solidarity twitters from UC to Goldsmiths

Statement from the turbulence collective

The call from Paris, via edu-factory

European calling from Uniriot, with concomitant photo of the new British section of the book bloc

If you've got anything good on what's going on in PR at the moment, send it my way.

Edit: British book bloc in action!

University for Strategic Optimism at Lloyds TBS [High Quality]

this is what the university looks like.

This is a really interesting article about the place of nonacademic university employees in the current, inspiring wave of student occupations and strikes that is erupting across the United Kingdom, from Leeds to Cardiff to Warwick to Oxford to the University of East London.

I've previously written (and feel like a careerist liberal asshole so noting) about the question of how the student occupationist movements ought to rethink the place of service work and workers as central to university capitalism, and I think the tensions this mute piece points out in the current moment speak similarly to the challenges and possibilities of future organizing.

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By Anathematician

Despite frequent declarations of solidarity, protesting students and academics are failing to join forces with non-academic staff. Except when police brutality momentarily unites them - writes Anathematician

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