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
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The American nightmare: the US now run school shooting practice runs
Teachers' unions have condemned the now mandatory ‘active shooter’ drills that traumatise students, reports MARK GRUENBERG
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
On a recent NEU delegation, STEVE HANDFORD’s eyes were opened to the educational achievements of the socialist island and the need for Britain to take a leaf out of its book
NICK TROY lauds the young staff at a hotel chain and cinema giant who are ready to take on the bosses for their rights
DYLAN MURPHY reports that far from helping people back into work, the sanctions regime is inflicting unnecessary trauma on working-class families
As Saudi Arabia is hailed abroad for its ‘reforms,’ the reality for women inside the kingdom grows ever more repressive. On the International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women, MARYAM ALDOSSARI argues it is time to stop applauding the illusion – and start listening to the women the state works hardest to silence
IMAGINE a shaking, scared kindergartener or pre-schooler hiding in a closet or under her desk, hoping and praying the man with the gun won’t shoot her — and being scared of loud noises and similar phenomena for the rest of her life?
Real, right? Real all too often since the Columbine High School massacre in Colorado 20 years ago? Even more real since the Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School murders of 14 students and three teachers on Valentine’s Day, 2018, right?
Correct. Except in the cases we’re talking about, the kids are hiding during an “active shooter” lockdown drill and the gun-wielder is acting a role — although in one such elementary school drill in Monticello, Indiana, law enforcement officers lined teachers up and “shot” them with air gun pellets. The teachers, too, were traumatised.
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