The NTEU’s appeals to management can be explained only by an underlying agreement with the plans being implemented at the behest of the federal government and big business.
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Australia: CFPE/IYSSE meeting calls for rank-and-file committees to fight education cuts
Academics, university staff and students, workers and youth took part in a lively online public meeting last Saturday to discuss the political issues posed by the historic government-management offensive against university jobs and conditions in Australia and internationally.
Many questions were raised and answered about the need for a network of rank-and-file committees to fight against the ruling elite’s exploitation of the COVID-19 pandemic to accelerate the pro-business restructuring and decimation of public education.
A full video of the event can be viewed below.
Oppose all the job cuts at Macquarie University and nationally!
Online public meeting in Australia: Oppose all the job cuts at Macquarie University and nationally! Build rank-and-file committees to defend public education!
15 July 2021
Developments this week at universities across Australia have underscored the critical importance of the joint online public meeting called by the International Youth and Students for Social Equality (IYSSE) and the Committee for Public Education (CFPE) this Saturday, July 17 at 4 p.m. (AEST). Click here to register.
An NTEU rally at Macquarie University in 2020 (WSWS Media)
The meeting will discuss how to take forward the fight against the deepening cuts and pro-business restructuring at Sydney’s Macquarie University and nationally. In the latest wave, hundreds of job losses, accompanied by course closures, were unveiled this week at the University of Western Australia (UWA), Adelaide and La Trobe universities.
Students launch petition at University of Western Australia against cuts to courses
Students at the University of Western Australia’s (UWA) School of Social Sciences have launched a petition titled “Save Social Sciences at UWA,” seeking to halt a new round of job cuts and restructuring at the university. In just four days, there has been an outpouring of support. There are nearly 5,000 signatures and hundreds of comments expressing disgust at the escalating pro-corporate restructuring of universities at the expense of scholarship and genuine education.
According to
WA Today, the UWA’s School of Social Sciences is just the first to suffer in a $40 million cost-cutting program, “with almost all staff in sociology and anthropology axed and their disciplines to disappear.” Eight of nine positions are being eliminated in anthropology and sociology. Three jobs are going from political sciences and international relations, three from geography and planning, and one each fro