Councillor SAM WHEELER says there’s a tangible shift in mood on the left in the city whose mayor has recently become PM — but there’s no room for complacency
Learning to be exploited
Teacher EFREM CRAIG explains how the underfunding of education benefits the capitalist class
POINTS MADE: (L to R) Picket line outside Bristol Cathedral School, College Square, Bristol on April 23 2023 and ttriking teachers march in Westminster on February 1 2023
Communist Party leaders Alex Gordon and Lorraine Douglas deliver vital medicines in trip to besieged socialist island
TUC Cymru is playing a leading role in tackling far-right ideas in the workplace, says LAURA DOEL
A New Delhi press conference in which Sheikh Hasina and her son implied the new order in Bangladesh is a security threat to India has sparked fears she is planning a comeback. SIAM SAROWER JAMIL reports on the fallout
Two months of student unrest have forced out India’s education minister and rattled the BJP regime. Could this be the beginning of the end for Modi, asks Communist Party of India (Marxist) general secretary MA BABY
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IT SEEMS counterintuitive, or even conspiratorial, to believe that a government would intentionally damage its own education system.
Why would anybody choose to disadvantage children or fail to give them the skills needed to survive adult life?
This obviously isn’t the case for the entire education system. Regardless of who runs the government, it is a fact that at least some decent education must be delivered in order to ensure there are enough skilled people to work in future generations.
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