Newly revealed documents reveal that MI5 taught Brazilian secret police the techniques deployed by the 1964-85 military dictatorship in horrific prisons like Rio de Janeiro’s House of Death. SARA VIVACQUA reports
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Education: Freedom or conformity?
While the right fights culture wars in our schools, teacher ROBERT POOLE asks would their time and money not be better spent on helping our young people?
A police officer outside Pimlico Academy School, west London, where students have staged a walkout in protest over a school uniform policy that they claim is discriminatory and racist
CHRISTOPHE DOMEC speaks to the France Insoumise politician facing constant persecution from French authorities
It can be hard to discern conspiracy theory from reality and under the Trump regime the two might just be the same thing, writes Linda Pentz Gunter
ALAN SIMPSON says responses to the Golders Green attacks risk deepening divides across our country
Capturing the general strikes history is a vital part of our struggles today, posits HENRY FOWLER
On a tumultuous day in Welsh politics DAVID NICHOLSON looks at the key issues for progressives in Wales to grapple with the rise of the far right
AS LOCKDOWN starts to ease up — for everywhere other than my home town of Bolton that is — the Tories have decided that there is one group of people who need locking up. Children.
The Department for Education is spending £10 million on new “behaviour hubs,” having a crackdown on mobile phones and threatening to keep kids in school from 8am till 6pm.
It is unsurprising that this creeping authoritarianism comes from an education secretary who keeps a whip on his desk.
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