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Tory boost for cadets in schools needs fighting
The government is splashing cash on new units in state schools – but we must resist the ever-growing militarisation of our children’s education writes EMMA SANGSTER
Rebuilding Labour’s working-class roots and organising power is essential if the party is to recover, says MERCEDES VILLALBA
ANDREW MURRAY looks back at a damaging career marked by dishonesty, incompetence and revolting complicity in war crimes
Britain’s historic vote to leave the EU was a rejection of the political Establishment and the strategic direction pursued by Britain’s ruling class since the second world war, writes ALEX GORDON
Over 1,000 hostile US sanctions remain in place on Venezuela, while Britain continues its colonial theft of gold, writes MATT WILLGRESS
MARY DAVIS says the centrality of the Jewish community and the Communist Party to anti-fascism in the 1930s is too often overlooked on the left
DEFENCE Secretary Michael Fallon announced at the Conservative Party conference that 25 out of 150 proposed new school cadet units would open. Despite the presentation as something new, the Cadet Expansion Programme (CEP) promoting cadet forces in state schools was first announced in 2012. Its first phase received over £14 million.
In the 2015 Budget, the Chancellor of the Exchequer announced £50m of second-phase funding from Libor rate-rigging fines, increasing the number of state school cadet units to 500 by 2020.
This year he announced a further half a million from Libor fines, to support seven cadet “linked detachments” in Scottish schools as well as £3.3m for cadet forces qualifications.
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