TUC CONGRESS 2023 Organising the unorganised is one of our most important challenges GAWAIN LITTLE explains how GFTU’s link-up with Strike Map aims to provide high-quality trade union education, support and mentoring to a new layer of activists
Friday 11th Nov 2022 Education fightback: Vote for action to tackle the school cuts crisis Now is our chance to take action over pay and school funding, argues GAWAIN LITTLE
Sunday 10th Apr 2022 NEU CONFERENCE 2022 ‘We’ll continue building our social project for all’ Leader of the Cuban National Union of Education Workers NIURKA MARIA GONZALEZ ORBERA talks to Gawain Little about the impact of Covid, Cuba’s historic literacy drive, Joe Biden and the harm to education caused by the blockade
Saturday 04th Dec 2021 Adelante! Democratic engagement in Cuba’s schools In this extract from Beyond the Blockade, a collection of accounts from members of the National Education Union who have travelled to Cuba to exchange ideas with Cuba teachers and educators, GAWAIN LITTLE reflects on a refreshingly different educational culture
Monday 26th Jul 2021 Educators and public-sector workers slapped in the face once again The labour movement must respond to yet another of the government's public-sector pay freeze threats with robust action, writes GAWAIN LITTLE
Saturday 02nd Jan 2021 We want to be back in the classroom teaching – but it's not safe GAWAIN LITTLE explains why the National Education Union is advising teachers to work from home this week
Monday 14th Sep 2020 Together, trade unions and grassroots campaigns can defeat racism Building links between workers and communities can assist in the battle to dismantle racist oppression, writes GAWAIN LITTLE
Thursday 11th Jun 2020 Build back better: a manifesto for education GAWAIN LITTLE and HANK ROBERTS argue there is no time to waste — education workers must build on their recent victories to completely overhaul the school system in the favour of staff, students and society as a whole
Monday 23rd Mar 2020 Coronavirus and schools — what is the truth, and what should parents do? Schools are now closed — here is what you need to know, writes GAWAIN LITTLE, executive member of the National Education Union
Friday 03rd Jan 2020 Hegemony and building an alternative The Morning Star’s mission is to try to challenge the dominant ideological culture. GAWAIN LITTLE takes a look at the Marxist concept of hegemony — and how it can inform our approach
Friday 13th Dec 2019 Misleading narratives on Labour's defeat have a purpose GAWAIN LITTLE looks in detail at the different aspects of Labour’s election defeat
