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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Long Bailey is the best candidate to bring socialism into education
Neoliberalism and austerity have wreaked havoc on our schools system – and Labour needs a leader who can bring about radical change, writes ROBERT POOLE
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
REBECCA LONG BAILEY, candidate for leader of the Labour Party, released this week her “socialist vision for schools” and there is a lot of inspiring stuff in there, giving me hope that the next manifesto will be one with education at its core.
My only criticism is that this vision does not go far enough. A true socialist vision for education needs to be even more radical, not just echoing but also building on our 2019 manifesto.
Let’s have a vision that sees an end to the cruel testing of primary-age pupils — a system which puts young children under high levels of stress leaving them in tears.
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