Scottish Labour's leaders cannot keep blaming Westminster for the collapse at the ballot box, says VINCE MILLS
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Cuba's passion for education is an inspiration to all
Cuban primary schoolchildren
Over 30 years since apartheid was abolished, nasty anti-migrant rhetoric sweeps the corporate media. The Commnunist Party is ready to fight back, says ROGER McKENZIE
Over 100,000 people are expected on Brussels’s streets today. Ben Chacko speaks to Belgian Workers Party’s PETER MERTENS on wage and pensions attacks that have united the fightback
FRED BAYER says the cuts to the congress cycle could be disastrous for the Scottish trade union movement
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Western Marxism is a particular version of Marxist theory developed in – and acceptable to – the capitalist nations of Europe and North America and largely divorced from political action, argues the MARX MEMORIAL LIBRARY
FROM the very first days of the revolution education became a priority.
In 1953, around half a million or 44 per cent of children between the ages of six and 14 were without schools, only 17 per cent of 15-19-year-olds attended formal education and more than one million people were illiterate.
The situation deteriorated in the countryside. Only 7 per cent of teenagers in rural areas went to school compared to 30 per cent in Havana. At the same time 10,000 teachers were out of work. The black population, suffering from the legacy of slavery and the institutionalised racism of Spanish imperialism, fared even worse.
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