ANSELM ELDERGILL draws attention to a legal case on Tuesday in which a human rights group is challenging the government’s decision to allow the sale of weapons used against Palestinians
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I STAND in full solidarity with and support all trade unions who were demanding that all schools and colleges move immediately to online learning.
We on the left must learn from the demonisation of education unions in recent weeks and indeed throughout this pandemic. At times, it has been reminiscent of the brutal right-wing campaign against the miners’ union in the 1980s.
Across the country, the NEU, NASUWT, Unison, Unite and many other teaching unions have consistently stood up for children and working families.
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