State machinery was widely employed to secure favourable outcomes in India’s recent regional elections against three progressive regional governments who dared to challenge Narendra Modi, asserts VIJAY PRASHAD
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CONRAD LANDIN talks to Ozgur Bozdgan, the international secretary of Turkish educators’ union Egitim-Sen, about how the 2018 state of emergency has had a chilling effect across the education sector
Ozgur Bozdgan, Egitim Sen international secretary with the union’s president Feray Aytekin Aydogan at NASUWT conference in Belfast
It is too early to assume a US defeat in Iran — we must prepare for a long anti-war struggle, argues JOHN ROSS
ROGER McKENZIE says the ANC needs to respect South Africa’s Communists and their decision to stand independently at elections
KENNY MacASKILL remembers the woman who first translated The Communist Manifesto into English
The election offers a critical chance to shape the future of pay, care and community provision in Wales, says Unison’s JESS TURNER
As Scotland heads to the polls, the main parties offer variations on the same script, says MATT KERR
ALL she did was pick up the phone to a TV call-in show.
But last month Ayse Celik was sent to jail to continue serving a 15-month sentence — which had been delayed because she was pregnant and then had a newborn baby.
Her child is currently staying with her mother while she serves her sentence. But the first time round, the schoolteacher was among 700 women in her country to serve their sentences accompanied by their children — in spite of this violating human rights legislation and the constitution.
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