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Workers from the Covent Garden branch of TGI Fridays on a picket line outside the restaurant in central London in May 2018
A NEW all-party parliamentary group for political literacy is “no substitute” for labour-movement political education, socialists warned yesterday.
The new group, co-chaired by Conservative MP Simon Fell and Labour peer Iain McNicol – notorious on the left for apparently working to undermine former leader Jeremy Corbyn while party general secretary, according to an internal report leaked last Easter — is pushing for more political education in schools.
It points to low turnouts by young people in elections, with the “youthquake” of 2017, when Labour attracted large numbers of first-time voters, not reflected in the 2019 general election.
TOM GALLAHUE argues that asking what role Irish diaspora educators can play in shaping Irish unity is to ask a deeper question about democracy itself
The selection, analysis and interpretation of historical ‘facts’ always takes place within a paradigm, a model of how the world works. That’s why history is always a battleground, declares the Marx Memorial Library
KEVIN COURTNEY of Stand Up to Racism and JOHN PAGE of the Ella Baker School of Organising announce a joint project aiming to unite trade unions and social movements in creating new narratives to fight the divisive rhetoric of the far right
From hunting rare pamphlets at book sales to online panels and courses on trade unionism and class politics, the MML continues connecting archive treasures with the movements fighting for a better world, writes director MEIRIAN JUMP