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Setting out a plan for returning to school
HANK ROBERTS suggests five tests for a safe return to the classroom: retain, remove, restore, rebuild and reinstate
Newly revealed documents reveal that MI5 taught Brazilian secret police the techniques deployed by the 1964-85 military dictatorship in horrific prisons like Rio de Janeiro’s House of Death. SARA VIVACQUA reports
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
CHRISTOPHE DOMEC speaks to the France Insoumise politician facing constant persecution from French authorities
The new Scottish Parliament looks set to continue a cycle of managerial tinkering while public services face the axe, writes STEPHEN LOW
It can be hard to discern conspiracy theory from reality and under the Trump regime the two might just be the same thing, writes Linda Pentz Gunter
BORIS JOHNSON and his government have already failed in their attempt to restart all primary schools on a single common start date of June 1 and with all three chosen groups – reception, year one and year six.
For a safe return, to start with year six would have been better. So would starting it in a test area or areas where the R number (the number of people someone with the virus could infect) is well below one.
Most importantly, it would have been better to propose a start date for a phased return after the measures for tracking and testing were fully established and had been tested for reliability.
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