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E-Act – the academy trust that’s gaming the system
If you want schools to be committed to public education, they have to be publicly owned, says SOLOMON HUGHES
FAILING: Teachers walk out of Willenhall E-Act Academy, the troubled Walsall school where Ofsted inspectors were pelted with food, over safety fears in 2017
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
ONE of the key arguments of “New Labour” was that ownership of public services didn’t matter.
Tony Blair spent a lot of political energy getting rid of the pro-nationalisation Clause IV of Labour’s constitution.
He argued that the state did not need to own public services. In fact, new market and quasi-market-driven providers would introduce “innovation.” The public interest could be maintained by contracts, targets, inspections and league tables.
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