Green Party deputy leader MOTHIN ALI, who will speak at the International Anti-War Conference in London on June 20, says Britain needs to rethink its priorities – and its allies
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The NEU is at the forefront of protecting educators, children, families and communities
At each stage in the Covid crisis, our union has been organising – and innovating – to keep kids and working people safe, write GAWAIN LITTLE and VIK CHECHI-RIBEIRO
From Global Counsel to Arden, SOLOMON HUGHES finds firms linked to discredited politicians are still calling the shots in Britain
KEVIN COURTNEY explains why Reform UK is no friend to workers or trade unions, but just another party of the super-rich
EMMA DENT COAD explains why she is stepping down from the council after 20 years and how the legacy of the fire still haunts the area
While international attention focuses on ceasefire frameworks, Israel is openly advancing plans for a permanent expansion of its control over Gaza, writes RAMZY BAROUD
Researchers PAUL HOLDEN and JESSICA MURRAY are calling for whistleblowers and documentary records to uncover how Labour Together helped build the parliamentary majority that now dominates the Labour Party
THIS crisis has been hard on working-class people, with capital seeking to maintain its profit even during a pandemic.
Workers on precarious contracts and key workers have lost their lives, a privatised and outsourced health and social care system were sites of mass deaths, hundreds of thousands face evictions, universities forced indebted students into financialised student accommodation and schools were reduced to childcare for employers.
Educators were promised three things before returning to schools and colleges in September: a working system of contact tracing; positive cases resulting in bubbles self-isolating; and a tiered system, including blended learning, in response to increasing case rates in the community.
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