Years of austerity and political failure have left classrooms overcrowded and staff overstretched – now educators are organising across roles to demand change, says ED HARLOW
We can defeat the cuts to disability support together
RICHARD BURGON MP argues that a broad, united mass movement can stop the cuts and ensure it’s the wealthiest that pay their fair share
TAX THE RICH: Anti-cuts protesters spell it out outside the Treasury, London, March 25 2025
While US restrictions tighten economic and social pressures on Cuba, international allies and grassroots campaigns are stepping in to support the island’s resilience, writes BERNARD REGAN, secretary of Cuba Solidarity Campaign
Labour’s approach to Scotland reveals a long-running tension between rhetoric and reality, warns PAULINE BRYAN
We can't move forward as a progressive society, until we break away from our neoliberal past, says CHRIS WILLIAMSON
Austerity is breaking the education system. We must unite to save our schools and pay our teachers properly, says NEU national president ED HARLOW
Marx’s early lectures on economics, together with Engels’s additions, provide a valuable introduction to Marxist political economy today, writes the MARX MEMORIAL LIBRARY
THE single most important task facing every socialist, trade unionist, anti-poverty campaigner, and all progressives up and down the country over the coming weeks is to defeat the cruel cuts proposed to disability support.
These proposals are a disgraceful attack on some of the most disadvantaged and poorest people in our society. They need to be stopped — and they can be.
We have just a few months to build the huge campaign needed so that the government gets the message that, if it doesn’t scrap these plans, it will face a rebellion far larger than it could have ever imagined when it won its majority last year. From demonstrations to lobbies, letter-writing to mass petitions, this campaign needs to involve people in every way they want to speak out against these cuts.
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