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
Cuba and the US presidential elections
Canadian author and journalist KEITH BOLENDER is due to speak on the outcome of the US elections at meetings in November. Here, he anticipates what a new face in the Oval Office might mean for Cuba
STILL RESISTING: Thousands of government supporters attend a caravan ‘for love, peace and solidarity,’ organised by the Union of Young Communists in Havana following unrest over shortages, August 2021
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 upcoming US presidential election is being touted as one of the most important in the nation’s history. But there’s another country also extremely interested in the results on November 5: the outcome will have a vital impact on current and future US-Cuba relations.
There are two starkly different scenarios at play: one cautiously optimistic, the other utterly negative.
If Donald Trump wins, Cuba loses.
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