CJ ATKINS takes a closer look at Trump’s recent spate of red-baiting speeches and asks why the authoritarian president is running scared
Learning to be exploited
Teacher EFREM CRAIG explains how the underfunding of education benefits the capitalist class
POINTS MADE: (L to R) Picket line outside Bristol Cathedral School, College Square, Bristol on April 23 2023 and ttriking teachers march in Westminster on February 1 2023
JOHN McINALLY sees little chance of change at Westminster, and calls on the left to get serious about building a real alternative
With the centenary of the UN Slavery Convention upon us, ROGER McKENZIE argues much needs to be done to rid us of all its contemporary manifestations
SEVIM DAGDELEN says European Nato states are escalating ever closer to direct conflict with a nuclear power, and sacrificing welfare states built up over a century to finance it
CLAUDIA WEBBE says the horrific price British patients will pay for this NHS deal is now clear — and there’s time to get out of it, if MPs will only force the issue
KENNY MacASKILL says the lines between party, government and Civil Service in Scotland have been blurred and we need a thorough investigation into how
IT SEEMS counterintuitive, or even conspiratorial, to believe that a government would intentionally damage its own education system.
Why would anybody choose to disadvantage children or fail to give them the skills needed to survive adult life?
This obviously isn’t the case for the entire education system. Regardless of who runs the government, it is a fact that at least some decent education must be delivered in order to ensure there are enough skilled people to work in future generations.
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