Why Students Should Think Carefully About Supporting the UCU Strike

As the strikes continue for another week and the conversation remains stagnant, crossing the picket line at UCL is a somewhat daunting experience. For choosing to persevere with your already rather pricy studies, you are met with a sea of rhetorical questions, political judgements, and a stream of leaflets calling upon you to act. “Would you like to find out other ways to support your lecturers in their strike?” a fellow student asked me last week, during one of the more polite encou