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To properly combat political apathy, we need to educate our young people
MEGAN BIRCHALL considers how schools can improve their pupils’ political education while encouraging them to think for themselves
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
POLITICAL apathy is one of the major problems restraining our youth. We are direly in need of a robust political education.
The government has tried — and for the most part failed — to implement a basic political education in the mandatory personal, social, health and economic curriculum, an overall disaster that tries to ram an overpacked but somehow still ineffective curriculum into an already full school day.
Having experienced this briefly before my school decided it was a waste of time compared with the vital GCSEs we were going to sit, it was normally an hour to sit and update Facebook statuses and explore the world via daft Google searches, rather than sit and listen to a teacher who has no prior experience teaching the subject, and in regards to a political education barely had more knowledge than the students themselves.
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