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
The hour of reckoning nears for Chile’s left
KAREN ARAYA ROJAS, the Communist Party's candidate for the Constitutional Council from the Metropolitan Region, talks to Daniela Pizarro Amaya about the prospects for transformation offered by this new process
INSPIRATION FOR THE CONSTITUTION: The mass protests of 2019-20 in Santiago de Chile, placard says ‘Chile awakes;' Karen Araya Rojas in the foreground
[(L to R) Courtesy of El Siglo and Carlos Figueroa/CC]
STEVE BISHOP considers the prospects for a settlement of the conflict and how the demands of both sides are being viewed
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
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
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
KAREN ARAYA ROJAS is a teacher by profession and the president of the Chilean Teachers College (CPC) for the municipality of La Florida in the south-east of the capital, Santiago de Chile.
She is also the general secretary of the first trade union of workers of said municipality – one of the largest in the region – which organises education workers.
The mother of three has been involved in union work for over eight years now and has also been, for many years, at the centre of political and electoral work in La Florida.
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