The mass movement supporting Palestine represents potential political power that the left must now embrace as central to its strategy, writes HUGH LANNING, ahead of this Saturday’s Socialism or Barbarism day school in London
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Workers should be valued – and that includes teachers
NEU leader DANIEL KEBEDE warns that educators are at breaking point under the cruel regime of Ofsted
Health Secretary Wes Streeting taking £53k from Tory-linked recruiter and outsourcer Peter Hearn’s OPD Group is a great example of how Labour’s rich donors shape policies targeting the poor – not their wealth, writes SOLOMON HUGHES
MAT COWARD recalls the communist and pacifist aristocrat whose commitment made a difference in the Spanish civil war, the Blitz and WWII Europe
Two months into Donald Trump’s second run as president, what can we glean about his policies towards Latin America so far, asks TIM YOUNG, ahead of this Saturday’s Socialism or Barbarism day school in London
Xenophobic hysteria over the statistically insignificant number of small-boat crossings deliberately conceals how capitalism manipulates population flows for profit — if we can explain that, we’ll beat the right, argues NICK WRIGHT
JOGINDER BAINS argues that the infamously cruel and calculated mass murder of Indians blocked into a public square and fired upon by the British Indian Army still faces a reckoning
The annual Fenner Brockway Lecture, hosted by Liberation, was delivered this year by Peter Mertens, Chair of the Workers’ Party of Belgium. STEVE BISHOP reflects on some of the highlights of Mertens’ address
INTERNATIONAL Workers’ Day gives us cause to celebrate the role workers play in all aspects of society, in countries all over the globe.
It gives us the chance to mark their struggles, celebrate their victories and look at the work we all have to do to achieve justice and equality for workers all around the world.
In education, our struggles as workers matter, not least because they help determine the quality of education provided by our schools and colleges to our children.
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In fighting against racism and fascism, it helps to clearly make the case that division and hatred emerge from the elites and those who stand to benefit from a fractured working class, argues DANIEL KEBEDE
Every student needs an anti-racist education and teachers need appropriate training and encouragement to help bring about an end to racial exclusion and fear, writes DANIEL KEBEDE of the National Education Union
The trade union movement needs to step up to confront the menace of fascism head on, argues DANIEL KEBEDE
NEU general secretary DANIEL KEBEDE warns that after 14 years of Conservative rule, fatigue, hunger and poor health are commonplace in Britain’s schools
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