Lee Brown explains how Ecuador’s election wasn’t free — and its people will pay the price under President Noboa
So the poor don't suffer: the return to school
Fines and token funding aren't what disadvantaged pupils need — it's structural change, writes ROBERT POOLE
A classroom
MARY ADOSSIDES of the London May Day Organising Committee calls on all to join the traditional march from Clerkenwell Green, which will bring together countless international workers’ organisations in a statement against the far right
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Mountains of research show that online hardcore material harms children by direct exposure and often indirectly - by those men porn inspires. Yet there are still no simple measures like age and content regulation in place, writes JOHN GREEN
We face austerity, privatisation, and toxic influence. But we are growing, and cannot be beaten
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Activist Angie Zelter has been arrested more than a hundred times. She’s not stopping now, writes LINDA PENTZ GUNTER
CONGRATULATIONS everyone, the crisis is over. Well, that’s what the government would like us to believe. The race is now on to get everyone back to normal as quickly as possible and get the economy moving again. That of course means that pubs must be open from 6am every day so we can all drink for victory and that schools must reopen so parents can get back to work before they get addicted to furlough.
It doesn’t seem to matter that we still have one of the highest death rates in the world nor that the recent spike in cases in Leicester is being driven by those under 19. The Prime Minister has spoken (or maybe Dom) and the reopening of schools must take place. This is so the poor don’t “suffer,” claims Gavin Williamson. I am not sure if this is meant as a warning or a threat.
The reopening of schools is being sold to the nation as being driven, not out of a desire for ensuring the profits of business are protected, but out of a desire to look after disadvantaged pupils. The irony being that this is the same group of pupils that the government has not cared a jot about for the past 10 years and whose myriad problems it is in fact to blame for.
This is also the same group the government planned not to feed over the summer — until it was forced into an embarrassing U-turn by Marcus Rashford, trade unions and the Labour Party.
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