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Our response to a rising far right needs to be strong and clear
The NEU pledges to do everything in our power to combat racism in education and within wider society, says KEVIN COURTNEY
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THE lessons of history form the subject matter of classes delivered by National Education Union (NEU) members up and down the country.

History teachers delivering the GCSE curriculum discuss the rise of fascism, the second world war and the barbarity of the Holocaust with their pupils.

They talk about the economic and political conditions that led to the rise of the far right and the movement that grew to defeat the nazis across the globe.

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