Washington’s inability to subjugate Iran is an example of how it is trying to preserve a regional order that no longer exists, argues RAMZY BAROUD
How the NEU is fighting back against the war on teachers
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US financial instability is exposing the limits of a dollar-dominated global economy — and giving the Global South a historic chance to build an alternative, says MURAD QURESHI
DOUG NICHOLLS says the parasitic finance markets must be challenged or another British government could be toppled
The late country singer’s Imagination Library has put hundreds of millions of books into children’s hands. We should build on that legacy by defending the libraries at the heart of our communities, says BRENDA AITCHISON
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MML director MEIRIAN JUMP outlines the recently refreshed library’s busy autumn schedule that ranges from book sales, archival exploration, community work with online education and the ever popular site tours
TONY BURKE surveys the shifting political landscape and the challenges Labour needs to address if it is to prevail in the 2028 federal elections
YESTERDAY, the National Education Union became the largest union to win a national ballot under the restrictive thresholds imposed by the 2016 Trade Union Act.
With 90 per cent of teachers in England voting for action on a 53 per cent turnout — more than 121,000 votes — this is the single largest vote for strike action since the legislation was introduced.
In some ways more significant is the fact that this ballot was organised across 24,000 individual workplaces, with an average of 13 members per workplace.
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