While international actors discuss governance and reconstruction, Netanyahu has made it clear that Israel has no intention of ending its military occupation, says RAMZY BAROUD
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Educators organising through the coronavirus
Although we are not at work, this pandemic offers a real chance for trade-union renewal in education and across the whole public sector, writes HENRY FOWLER, national campaigns manager of the NEU
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We have the alternative economics, histories of our struggles and the confidence to change the world
General Federation of Trade Unions assistant general secretary HENRY FOWLER reports on the final day from the GFTU’s residential Summer School at the Workers’ Retreat, Quorn Grange Hotel
Capitalism has exploited — and polluted — our natural resources for too long, it’s time we treated our rivers as living beings, writes MIRIUM GAUNTLETT, LIAM SHAW and ROX MIDDLETON
Treating the Clacton by-election as a joke risks reinforcing the Reform leader’s claim to be the victim of an out-of-touch Establishment, argues JOHN McINALLY
MPs and others called for the urgent release of tortured Palestinian doctor, Hussam Abu Safiya, held hostage by Israel and reportedly near death, reports LINDA PENTZ GUNTER
ON MARCH 18, in his latest coronavirus briefing to the nation, Boris Johnson announced that schools in England and Wales would close to all children except those of key workers or who are vulnerable from Friday March 20.
This announcement ended days of debate within the education profession about whether schools, colleges and other education centres should be open, as National Education Union (NEU) representatives and groups of members collectively discussed how to keep safe.
Like many public-sector workers, educators are continuing to work — playing the vital role of looking after the vulnerable and children of key workers, to ensure our health system can care for the country. In these unprecedented times, trades unions have been given an opportunity for renewal, to become ever relevant again.
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