While international attention focuses on ceasefire frameworks, Israel is openly advancing plans for a permanent expansion of its control over Gaza, writes RAMZY BAROUD
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Saving schools is not enough
Primary school teacher EFREM CRAIG reflects on the NEU day of strike action
Striking members and supporters of the National Education Union (NEU) on Whitehall, on a march from Portland Place to Westminster where they will hold a rally against the Government's controversial plans for a new law on minimum service levels during strikes
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
Cuba continues to embody a vision of internationalism that imperialism has never forgiven, argues ZOLTAN ZIGEDY
PCS general secretary FRAN HEATHCOTE explains why opposing war is inseparable from defending jobs, wages and public services – and why readers should come to the London Peace Conference on Saturday June 20
As protests erupt over Henry Nowak’s murder, ANDREW MURRAY argues that anger is being exploited to advance a wider racist and anti-immigration agenda
CARLOS MARTINEZ explains the sound case for car manufacturing co-operation with China
THE demonstration on February 1 was a landmark achievement of the united working class. Tens of thousands of workers joined forces on the streets to send a clear message to the government: something has to change.
Of course, there has been plenty of change since 2016, when teachers last went on strike. In the UK that year, the number of working days lost to strikes was only (only!) around 322,000, according to the Office for National Statistics.
Since June 2022, the number has reached around two million. Evidently, the public sector has been pushed to breaking point, aggravated by a pandemic and an economic crash handled by the worst possible government.
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