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Podcast: Red Flag Radio
Episode: The class struggle in higher education - with Alma Torlakovic and Jerome Small
Description: This is a bumper episode about the class struggle across the higher education sector, with a focus on Australia and the US.Â
First, we talked to Jerome Small, RFR regular and Socialist Alternative's industrial organiser, to set the scene. He covered some fascinating topics; from the US university strikes to the fight within the Australian higher ed union, the NTEU, over the leadership's covid-era proposal to take a wage cut in exchange for supposed "job security".Â
Next, we spoke to Alma Torlakovic, a socialist and NTEU union member from Sydney University, about the two-year-long campaign th...