This weekend, the NEU holds a special conference to debate changing its approach to organising teaching assistants, which a 2017 TUC agreement forbids. General secretary DANIEL KEBEDE outlines the choices before delegates
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Join Red Labour and friends for a celebration of radical Jewish life
JULIA BARD recommends an event showcasing the diversity of Jewish thought and debate in the past and in today’s tumultuous times
Evidence to peers from medical leaders, patient safety officials and the children’s commissioner has intensified fears that the Bill’s safeguards are inadequate, writes ADAM JAMES POLLOCK
In the first of a series of interviews with leaders of progressive parties in Wales ahead of the May 7 Senedd election DAVID NICHOLSON talks to Plaid Cymru leader Rhun ap Iorwerth
Anyone who criticises those in power in Kenya risks their freedom or worse. The brutal abduction of Booker Omole marks a new escalation in a country sliding toward authoritarian rule, says MARC VANDEPITTE
Statement of the World Peace Council
IT’S Hanukah, the Jewish festival of lights and enlightenment. At this time, we commemorate the Maccabean Revolt — a guerilla struggle by ordinary Jews for their right to self-determination against pressure to assimilate from Greek imperial authorities and the Hellenised priests of their own community.
Of course this story is interpreted in many ways, and people from the whole range of Jewish views, conservative and liberal, reformist and revolutionary, nationalist and internationalist, like the rabbis arguing in ancient times, all assert that it validates their conflicting perspectives.
For radical Jews, this diversity and discussion, the argument and teasing out of ideas, is our precious heritage.
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