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As we enter 2022, the picket line is where the collective spirit of Jeremy Corbyn’s Labour Party lives on
We’re entering days of struggle where new battle lines are being drawn, argues TOM RAESIDE

THROUGHOUT December 2021 the UCU engaged in two pieces of critical industrial action. 

National action to safeguard pensions, matched by local action at Goldsmiths where a three-week strike has been set against a wave of compulsory redundancies with the eventual closure of departments and courses.

As a modern history MA student at the University of Sheffield and an alumnus of Goldsmiths I have been proud to stand alongside workers in both struggles.

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