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Teachers are fighting for more than pay
Preliminary ballots show NEU teaching staff massively in favour of joining the burgeoning strike wave – and when they do, they will be fighting to reverse the cuts, degradations and decline of the last 40 years, writes DANIEL KEBEDE
Protesters outside Sheffield Girls' School, as teachers at 23 independent schools within the Girls' Day School Trust (GDST) go on strike over pensions, with around 1,500 members of the NEU teaching union involved

THE last few weeks have shown the complete and utter turmoil this government is in.

As people on the streets of Britain face a cost-of-greed crisis, fuelled by the super-rich making obscene profits by impoverishing the working class, Liz Truss and her cronies stepped in to offer tax breaks and further austerity, crashing the economy in the process.

We are led by a cabal which seems unable even retain the support of those it aims to enrich.

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