ANDREW MURRAY wonders what the great communist foe of Oswald Mosley would make of today’s far-right surge, warning that while the triumph of Farage and ‘Robinson’ is far from inevitable, placing any faith in Starmer in an anti-fascist front is a fool’s errand
Government must invest in teacher-led education recovery and renewal
To bring about the education recovery that our children deserve there must be better support for and investment in our teachers, says NASUWT leader DR PATRICK ROACH
LOTTE COLLETT welcomes the arrival of a new party for the left, a vehicle for councils to finally fight for progressive policies on housing, green spaces and public facilities, rather than administering cuts and misery from central government
KEVAN NELSON reports back from a delegation to the epic celebrations for the anniversary of Vietnam’s 1945 revolution, where British communists found a thriving, prosperous socialist country, brimming with ambition and well-earned national pride
Our economic system is broken – and unless we break with the government’s obsession with short-termist private profit, things are destined to get worse, warns Mercedes Villalba
Following the resignation of Nepali Prime Minister KP Oli amid mass youth-driven protests, different narratives have circulated which simplify and misrepresent the complexities and reality on the ground in Nepal at the roots of this crisis, argue VIJAY PRASHAD and ATUL CHANDRA
The US is desperate to stop Honduras’s process of social and democratic change, writes TIM YOUNG
WE will not build the longer-term recovery we need without ambition matched with greater investment in children, young people and our education system.
The last 18 months have had a major toll on children’s education. Millions of days of face-to-face education have already been lost, while children have also endured the national trauma of lockdowns, social isolation and the devastation of family and friends lost to coronavirus.
While government ministers appear dewy-eyed when talking about the importance of catch-up tutoring, they have fallen well short of their promised investment in education recovery, leaving England lagging behind the commitments made by countries such as the United States and the Netherlands.
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