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We should not underestimate the extent to which the NEU is making the weather on the education debate
The situation facing schools, teachers and children has never been worse, but the NUT has been fighting back strongly at grassroots level, writes ALEX KENNY
Despite the screeching from the right-wing media, Burnham’s speech chimed with the public mood - and socialists should take advantage, says Morning Star editor BEN CHACKO
Nature as well as society works dialectically, asserts the Marx Memorial Library and Workers’ School
Rising temperatures and human activity are making life far harder for these vital pollinators. ALEX DITTRICH explains
Lesbians and Gays Support the Miners co-founder MIKE JACKSON talks to Matt Kerr about the enduring power of Pride, protest and trade unionism
Behind the language of military strategy is a confrontation that risks drawing the wider Middle East into war, says STEVE BISHOP
“The only thing worse than being talked about is not being talked about” — Oscar Wilde.
TWELVE months ago, NUT general secretary Kevin Courtney used his closing address to NUT Conference to put the union on a campaign footing.
Just two hours earlier Theresa May stood outside 10 Downing Street and told the world that she was calling a snap general election, an announcement to which the NUT was able to offer an immediate response through Courtney’s address to conference — we would take the issue of education and in particular the school funding crisis to the school gates and the doorstep, he told delegates.
The recent report that the NUT is to be investigated by the Electoral Commission for our spending during the general election is a testament to the success of our campaign.
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