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
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.
A past confrontation permanently shaped the methods the state will use to protect employers against any claims by their employees, writes MATT WRACK, but unions are readying to face the challenge
Artists should not be consigned to a life of precarious working – they deserve dignity and proper workers’ rights, argues ZITA HOLBOURNE
NICOLA SARAH HAWKINS explains how an under-regulated introduction of AI into education is already exacerbating inequalities
KEVAN NELSON reveals how, through its Organising to Win strategy, which has launched targeted campaigns like Pay Fair for Patient Care, Britain’s largest union bucked the trend of national decline by growing by 70,000 members in two years


