A November 15 protest in Mexico – driven by a right-wing social-media operation – has been miscast as a mass uprising against President Sheinbaum. In reality, the march was small, elite-backed and part of a wider attempt to sow unrest, argues DAVID RABY
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Smash the pay freeze and deliver for education workers
Teacher and NEU rep ROBERT POOLE looks at Westminster’s promises for education and comes to the conclusion that if there is hope it lies with the union
STATING THE OBVIOUS: Principle Matt Jones (centre) with students at Ark Globe Academy in London, as they receive their A-Level results in August 10, 2021; a student with a placard that says it all
Despite new European arrests, the evidence presented so far fails to explain the sabotage of the undersea pipelines – and veteran investigative journalist Seymour Hersh’s allegations of US responsibility cannot be easily dismissed, writes ROGER McKENZIE
Groups are urging the US government to secure the 16-year old’s release as his mental and physical health decline dramatically after nine months inside Ofer prison, writes LINDA PENTZ GUNTER
MAT COWARD tells the story of the eccentric founder of a short-lived but striking experiment in ‘vital democracy,’ who became best known for giving away his estate to the nation
As figures from Tucker Carlson to Nigel Farage flirt with neofascist rhetoric and mainstream leaders edge toward authoritarianism through war and repression, the conditions that once nurtured Hitlerism re-emerge — yet anti-war and anti-imperialist sentiments are also burgeoning anew, writes ANDREW MURRAY
As President Javier Milei is set to unveil a radical rollback of Argentina’s labour laws, unions warn of an unprecedented assault on workers’ rights, says BERT SCHOUWENBURG
THE Labour roadshow rolled into Brighton last week. Although you might have been forgiven for thinking it was the Antiques Roadshow going by the speeches from the Parliamentary Labour Party — with fine slogans from the Blair era being wheeled out, such as “tough on crime, tough on the causes of crime” and “education, education, education.”
The leadership and shadow cabinet are trying their best to cosplay as friends of the working class while at the same time watering down or downright blocking any socialist motions, wooing businesses and attacking what is left of the left in the party.
But what are the Labour Party’s plans for education, I hear you cry. You may have missed the party’s announcements mainly because they were just fairly ordinary.
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The NEU’s annual conference promises heated debate, with motions on international politics, curriculum reform and union amalgamation likely to provoke strong reactions and challenge the status quo, writes Education for Tomorrow editor ROBERT POOLE
As the government moves to rein in academy freedoms, former darling of conservative education reform Katharine Birbalsingh cries ‘Marxism.’ Education columnist ROBERT POOLE examines how academisation has failed our children while enriching executives and empowering ideologues at the expense of democratic accountability