The sheer number present on the day, estimated at half a million, points to organisational acumen and bodes well for developing the movement, says DIANE ABBOTT
The rigged private school sector must be abolished
Private schools serve to maintain the status quo and the old boys’ network. Teacher ROBERT POOLE explains why the AbolishEton campaign is seeking to bring such schools into the public sector
Etonians play the Eton wall game which was invented at the school
A packed fringe meeting at the National Education Union conference heard from Iranian teachers, campaigners and journalists
CLAUDIA WEBBE says the US is tightening the noose to destroy Cuban socialism — the need for immediate, international solidarity is urgent
MAT COWARD recommends a crop that keeps growing well under drought conditions
Cypriot lawyer and former central committee member of the Progressive Working People’s Party (Akel) TOUMAZOS TSIELEPIS discusses the case for expelling the British military from Cyprus
US aggression has plunged us into an energy price crisis that will spark steep inflation across the board — and the shock will be much worse than in the 1970s, warns MICHAEL BURKE
NEXT week we are about to have foisted upon us as prime minister yet another public schoolboy — most likely Boris Johnson, the 20th British prime minister to be educated at Eton. Or the head boy of Charterhouse Jeremy Hunt. Both products of the old boys’ network.
Nearly every prime minister in British history has had connections to the private school sector.
This is why last week we launched a grassroots Labour Party campaign calling for class war against the class-ridden system of private education which pervades Britain.
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We face austerity, privatisation, and toxic influence. But we are growing, and cannot be beaten
The series unveils uncomfortable truths about youth alienation and online radicalisation — but the real crisis lies in austerity and the absence of class consciousness in addressing young people’s disillusionment, says teacher ROBERT POOLE