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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The Tory threat of funding cuts and snap Ofsted inspections lasting a staggering three days will mean an exodus of teachers, warns 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
I’VE been a teacher for nearly a decade now and as such I’m in a privileged position — I have the best job in the world. It also means that I see every day the burning injustice in our society played out in our education system, riddled as it is with hierarchy and elitism.
On one hand we have a state system underfunded to such an extent that we have to teach in overcrowded classrooms in crumbling buildings while on the other side of the tracks private schools lavish the children of the wealthy with luxury facilities. Add onto this growing rates of child poverty and massive increases in inequality in society as a whole and state schools face a perfect storm.
That’s why I got involved in the Labour Party and why it was amazing to see that our campaign Labour Against Private Schools (#AbolishEton) had caused such a major shift in Labour policy.
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