The greatest threat to democracy may no longer come from political parties but from unelected tech oligarchs like Peter Thiel and his powerful Silicon Valley network, argues JOHN GREEN
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Saving schools is not enough
Primary school teacher EFREM CRAIG reflects on the NEU day of strike action
Striking members and supporters of the National Education Union (NEU) on Whitehall, on a march from Portland Place to Westminster where they will hold a rally against the Government's controversial plans for a new law on minimum service levels during strikes
Today’s interconnected conflicts are enriching the arms industry while pushing the entire world towards permanent militarisation, argues ROGER McKENZIE
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The government’s Pip review looks like a carefully managed exercise in legitimising future cuts to disability support, argues Dr DYLAN MURPHY
The Tories introduced the 50% strike ballot threshold to make industrial action harder. MATT WRACK argues that a Labour government has no justification for leaving it on the statute book
THE demonstration on February 1 was a landmark achievement of the united working class. Tens of thousands of workers joined forces on the streets to send a clear message to the government: something has to change.
Of course, there has been plenty of change since 2016, when teachers last went on strike. In the UK that year, the number of working days lost to strikes was only (only!) around 322,000, according to the Office for National Statistics.
Since June 2022, the number has reached around two million. Evidently, the public sector has been pushed to breaking point, aggravated by a pandemic and an economic crash handled by the worst possible government.
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