Ostroeuropa wrote:UCU (The union for university lecturers and professors) has passed a motion condemning Zelensky and calling for an immediate halt of aid to Ukraine.Members of the University and Colleges Union (UCU), which has been holding its Congress at Glasgow's SEC, backed a motion accusing President Volodymyr Zelenskyy of wanting the country to become an “armed, illiberal outpost of US imperialism”.
+An amendment to tone down the motion, including deleting the comment about Zelenskyy and including a section calling for a peaceful resolution to the conflict “based on freedom and independence for Ukraine” was defeated.
+Dr Yuliya Yurchenko, of Greenwich University, tweeted: “To colleagues compelled (like me) to just leave the union: let's stay and fight this.
“We can't grant red-brown tankies (or managers hoping to weaken the union) the satisfaction nor the upper hand. They won't defeat us.”
https://www.thenational.scot/news/23554 ... s-ukraine/
https://roarnews.co.uk/2023/ucu-congres ... g-ukraine/
Bare in mind this implies that the majority of UK academics are pro-russian stooges. Ofcourse "Marxist infiltration of universities to destroy the west" is just a conspiracy theory apparently.
...at least it's not German pacifists this time around...