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We need to revive workers' education
ROBERT TURNBULL says groups such as the Plebs League played a valuable role on the left. It's time we picked up where they left off

Since the 2010 general election and the Tory and Liberal assault on what remains of the post-1945 settlement, many on the left have concluded that we must get our act together before it is too late.

There is a growing recognition of the need to re-establish a movement for independent working-class education (IWCE) which existed throughout much of the 20th century.

The impetus for such a movement actually came before the last election in the wake of the enthusiastic reception for Colin Waugh's pamphlet 100 Years On From the Ruskin Strike: Plebs, the Lost Legacy of Independent Working Class Education.

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