JEREMY CORBYN reports from Hiroshima where he represented CND at the 80th anniversary of the bombing of the city by the US
More than meets the eye with the New Schools Network
SOLOMON HUGHES probes the finances of a phoney ‘charity’ pushing the free schools and academies agenda
A teacher and students in a classroom
SOPHIE BOLT makes an urgent case for comprehensive nuclear disarmament
Today Coventry’s Hiroshima Day Remembrance marks 80 years since the atomic bomb was dropped in 1945. Statement from Coventry Lord Mayor’s Committee of Peace and Reconciliation
All major Las Vegas Strip casinos are now unionised in a historic victory for labour, says RIO YAMAT
Letter to Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer and Home Secretary Yvette Cooper – to be delivered by a delegation of Jews to Downing Street today
Laughter has always been how workers cope and fight back, but university-educated union reps now scold members for calling bosses ‘money-grabbing bastards’ and label everyday humour ‘problematic’ — this needs to be stopped, writes MARK JONES
SUPPORTERS of the free schools and academy programmes pretend this handover of Department for Education cash and resources to a bunch of businessmen, conservative and religious ideologues is some kind of grassroots social movement driven by “charitable” impulses.
But look at the accounts one of the key “charities” involved, the New Schools Network, and it is obviously all a government-funded front pretending to be from the “grassroots.”
The New Schools Network was founded in 2009 by Tory activists to promote Conservative education policy. From 2011 on it started getting government grants from the Department for Education. The New Schools Network was paid to promote academies and free schools.
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Labour’s new Treasury unit will ‘challenge unnecessary regulation’ by forcing nominally independent bodies like Ofwat to bend to business demands — exactly what Iain Anderson’s corporate clients wanted, writes SOLOMON HUGHES
There have been penalties for those who looked the other way when Epstein was convicted of child sex offences and decided to maintain relationships with the financier — but not for the British ambassador to Washington, reveals SOLOMON HUGHES
US General Stanley McChrystal has been invited to advise on creating a ‘team of teams’ for healthcare transformation. His credentials? He previously ran interrogation bases where Iraqis were stripped naked and beaten, reports SOLOMON HUGHES
