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A renewed back-door attempt to privatise education?
LAURA BRIGGS is suspicious of the government’s allocation of public funding to establish a ‘national tutoring programme’
Prime Minister Boris Johnson waits in line in the playground to wash his hands during a visit to Bovingdon Primary School in Hertfordshire
NICK WRIGHT considers how the isolation of Israel and a new film on the controversial Italian communist leader are creating new reference points for Italy’s left
CARLOS MARTINEZ says Cuba’s achievements in the face of a criminal blockade are startling, but the island’s future if the United States succeeds in crushing it looks bleak
AMNON BROWNFIELD STEIN reports that far-right MPs who mobbed the event organised by Hadash may have helped raise awareness of the brutality of the Israeli right
Born on this day in 1931, the heroic revolutionary faces a dangerous new wave of White House aggression. We must treat his birthday as a rallying cry to resist the illegal siege of Cuba, writes ROGER McKENZIE
RAMZY BAROUD decries the rats of Gaza, the rodent and human type. Both abound as profiteering from tragedy reaches obscene levels
THE government last week outlined proposals which promise £650 million in additional funding for the upcoming academic year in order to help pupils catch up on education missed as a result of the coronavirus pandemic.
Despite this being marketed to school leaders as additional funding, this cash injection does not offset the real-terms cuts suffered by schools year on year — let alone provide the “extra” funding needed to recover from a global pandemic.
Though any additional funding is welcome at this time, we must not forget that public education remains chronically underfunded and that over four million children are living in poverty as a result of neoliberal austerity measures.
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