The National Education Union general secretary speaks to Ben Chacko on growing calls to protect children from a toxic online culture
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‘Consumed by mistrust and resentment, we stand alone’
The present economic and political construct that enforces inequality is in the process of destroying our planet, enslaving our minds and condemning our children to servitude. We must all fight united, writes NICOLAS LALAGUNA
While Iranians take to the streets en masse to protest sky-high inflation, Trump and Netanyahu are threatening military intervention. The Iranian population is trapped between a repressive regime, a suffocating economic war from the outside, and a history of dark alliances, argues MARC VANDEPITTE
Unison Scotland’s BRENDA AITCHISON says her union won’t tolerate further cuts to public services
The Danish Communist Party’s Lotte Rortoft-Madsen assesses the fallout from US threats to annex the huge Arctic island
Trump threatens war and punitive tariffs to recapture Iranian resources – just as in 1953, when the CIA overthrew Mossadegh and US corporations immediately seized 40% of the oil, says SEVIM DAGDELEN
Once derided by Farage as a ‘fraud,’ Jenrick has defected to Reform, bringing experience and political ruthlessness to the populist right — and raising the unsettling prospect of a Farage-led movement with a seasoned operative pulling the strings, says ANDREW MURRAY
TODAY will be the 15th anniversary of the day millions of us, all around the world, took to the streets together.
For a brief moment in history we took time away from our own campaigns and fights to stand up together and shout “Enough.”
That shared belief that we are all equals, and have an equal right to shape the future of the world continued to grow.
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