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Covid-19 and education: it’s working class children who suffer
The battle for safe workplaces has thrown trade unionism directly into the public eye – and it’s unions that have the power to shift public policy to prioritise the wellbeing of kids, teachers and wider society, says LAURA BRIGGS
NICK WRIGHT considers how the isolation of Israel and a new film on the controversial Italian communist leader are creating new reference points for Italy’s left
CARLOS MARTINEZ says Cuba’s achievements in the face of a criminal blockade are startling, but the island’s future if the United States succeeds in crushing it looks bleak
AMNON BROWNFIELD STEIN reports that far-right MPs who mobbed the event organised by Hadash may have helped raise awareness of the brutality of the Israeli right
Born on this day in 1931, the heroic revolutionary faces a dangerous new wave of White House aggression. We must treat his birthday as a rallying cry to resist the illegal siege of Cuba, writes ROGER McKENZIE
RAMZY BAROUD decries the rats of Gaza, the rodent and human type. Both abound as profiteering from tragedy reaches obscene levels
EARLIER this week, the government was forced to make an embarrassing U-turn regarding the wider reopening of schools in England.
In May, Boris Johnson announced that reception, year-one and year-six children were due to return on June 1 — with year 10 returning later this month.
However, teachers, head teachers and local authorities rejected Johnson’s proposal, refusing to open their doors to more pupils until it is safe.
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