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Gawain Little
Police arrest a man during an incident at Hammersmith Broadw
Features / 1 April 2025
1 April 2025
General secretary of the General Federation of Trade Unions GAWAIN LITTLE calls for support and participation in the national partnership organised to celebrate the 100th anniversary of the 1926 general strike
Bank of England
Features / 1 January 2025
1 January 2025
GAWAIN LITTLE argues that the prolonged economic crisis we have been experiencing presents opportunities for a working-class fightback
BRUTE FORCE: An Israeli war plane at Tel Nof air base prepar
Features / 24 December 2024
24 December 2024
After the Gaza genocide and unleashing chaos in Syria, the US and Israel prepare to target Tehran next, leaving the Iranian people caught between foreign intervention and continued theocratic oppression, writes GAWAIN LITTLE
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TUC 2024 / 9 September 2024
9 September 2024
GAWAIN LITTLE urges the labour movement to seize a historic opportunity under the new government, warning that failure to push for real change now could spell disaster for workers and fuel the far-right threat
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TUC CONGRESS 2023 / 11 September 2023
11 September 2023
GAWAIN LITTLE explains how GFTU’s link-up with Strike Map aims to provide high-quality trade union education, support and mentoring to a new layer of activists
steel
Features / 8 July 2023
8 July 2023
GAWAIN LITTLE highlights the General Federation of Trade Unions’ new education programme - to help forge the unity and strength we need to force a change of direction for Britain
People listen to Kevin Courtney, Joint General Secretary Nat
Features / 15 May 2023
15 May 2023
The incoming general secretary of the General Federation of Trade Unions GAWAIN LITTLE looks at the tasks of the organisation in the current turbulent period
Teacher
Features / 16 January 2023
16 January 2023
Yesterday’s strike ballot result was a long time in the making, explains GAWAIN LITTLE
DISGRACEFUL: Too many kids arrive at school hungry in Tory B
Features / 11 November 2022
11 November 2022
Now is our chance to take action over pay and school funding, argues GAWAIN LITTLE
Nuirka Orbera
NEU CONFERENCE 2022 / 8 April 2022
8 April 2022
Leader of the Cuban National Union of Education Workers NIURKA MARIA GONZALEZ ORBERA talks to Gawain Little about the impact of Covid, Cuba’s historic literacy drive, Joe Biden and the harm to education caused by the blockade
Cuban schoolchildren
Adelante! / 4 December 2021
4 December 2021
In this extract from Beyond the Blockade, a collection of accounts from members of the National Education Union who have travelled to Cuba to exchange ideas with Cuba teachers and educators, GAWAIN LITTLE reflects on a refreshingly different educational culture
ORGANISE: ‘We also need to strengthen the anti-austerity m
Features / 26 July 2021
26 July 2021
The labour movement must respond to yet another of the government's public-sector pay freeze threats with robust action, writes GAWAIN LITTLE
Empty classroom with sanitiser
Features / 2 January 2021
2 January 2021
GAWAIN LITTLE explains why the National Education Union is advising teachers to work from home this week
Stand Up to Racism banner stock (BLM)
Features / 11 September 2020
11 September 2020
Building links between workers and communities can assist in the battle to dismantle racist oppression, writes GAWAIN LITTLE
Kids and teacher
Features / 10 June 2020
10 June 2020
GAWAIN LITTLE and HANK ROBERTS argue there is no time to waste — education workers must build on their recent victories to completely overhaul the school system in the favour of staff, students and society as a whole
School gates
Features / 22 March 2020
22 March 2020
Schools are now closed — here is what you need to know, writes GAWAIN LITTLE, executive member of the National Education Union
City of London skyline stock photo
Features / 3 January 2020
3 January 2020
The Morning Star’s mission is to try to challenge the dominant ideological culture. GAWAIN LITTLE takes a look at the Marxist concept of hegemony — and how it can inform our approach
Labour election
Features / 13 December 2019
13 December 2019
GAWAIN LITTLE looks in detail at the different aspects of Labour’s election defeat
PIC CAP Outstanding activist: Hank Roberts
Book Review / 4 November 2019
4 November 2019
Life and times of a “stop talking and start shooting” trade unionist
Teacher protesting
Features / 20 September 2019
20 September 2019
We need to flip the narrative from the defensive battles we have been forced to fight under the Tories to the real opportunities presented by a left-led Labour government, writes GAWAIN LITTLE
Private schools
Features / 15 April 2019
15 April 2019
GAWAIN LITTLE on the release of a shocking new report today which explores the growth of the private education sector internationally and its dirty tentacles reaching into Britain's schools
Angelo Gavrielatos
Features / 8 February 2019
8 February 2019
Gawain Little talks to ANGELO GAVRIELATOS of Education International about the importance of a quality free universally accessible public education for all
Schools
Features / 10 October 2018
10 October 2018
At the same time as responding to, and resisting, current attacks on education, we must build our strength and prepare ourselves for the battles of the future, says GAWAIN LITTLE
Child learning
Features / 30 March 2018
30 March 2018
The formation of the NEU gives a chance to think radically about how we might want to shape tomorrow’s education policy, argues GAWAIN LITTLE