The PM is drawing cautious distance from Donald Trump over Iran – but history suggests Britain’s support may run deeper than it appears, just as it did during the Vietnam war, says KEITH FLETT

STEVE BISHOP considers the prospects for a settlement of the conflict and how the demands of both sides are being viewed

A recent Financial Times column on the Iran war exemplifies how the Western elite worldview is more concerned with strategy and power than legality or human life, writes ANDREW MURRAY

A major conference motion calls on educators to challenge far-right narratives and confront misogyny in schools. VONNI HARDMAN explains

Labour’s approach to Scotland reveals a long-running tension between rhetoric and reality, warns PAULINE BRYAN

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

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'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

Only a radical overhaul of the economic programme — and proper wages for the working class — will put Britain on the road to recovery, says EFREM CRAIG

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

A nationwide mobilisation signals growing resistance to the far right, but lasting change will depend on deep organising in every corner of society, writes GAWAIN LITTLE